associated with patients reading the names of the beverages inside the scanner. The cerebellum is involved in motor control, hand-eye coordination, and higher-order cognitive functions45. Impairment of cerebellar function has been shown in substance abuse and other disorders such as schizophrenia, characterizing changes in personality traits and poor executive and working memory in patients45,46. Increased BOLD signal in the cerebellum may not be associated with visual processing but could just reflect impaired cerebellar function in alcoholics.
