Magnetic resonance imaging was used to define quantitatively the position of the cerebellar tonsils in the normal population and in patients with Chiari malformations. The average distance of the ...

Instead, they discovered that the skull bone surrounding this part of the brain was actually malformed. Normally, the cerebellum grows into a deep, protective "pocket" within the skull.

St. Jude Department of Developmental Neurobiology published in Nature Communications revealed a gene deleted in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome results in malformed regions of the cerebellum ...