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Ronald Harper at UCLA has suggested that cerebellar-brainstem injury or defects could play a role in SIDS.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A Failure of Compensatory Cerebellar Mechanisms? RONALD M. HARPER (Pediatr Res 48: 140­142, 2000)

 

Visualization of sleep influences on cerebellar and brainstem cardiac and respiratory control mechanisms Ronald M. Harper, et al. Brain Research Bulletin, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 125­131, 2000

 

Lateralized and Widespread Brain Activation During Transient Blood Pressure Elevation Revealed by Magnetic
Resonance Imaging RONALD M. HARPER, et al.,THE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY 417:195­204 (2000)

 

Other imaging studies also suggest the cerebellum is important in the coordination of breathing.

 

Neuroimaging evidence implicating cerebellum in the experience of hypercapnia and hunger for air Lawrence M. Parsons, et al.,PNAS, February 13, 2001, vol. 98, no. 4, pp. 2041­2046

 

 

 

 

 

 

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