CCAS, Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome entities
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CCAS, also called Schmahmann's syndrome is a condition that follows from lesions (damage) to the cerebellum of the brain. It has deficits in the cognitive domains of executive function, spatial cognition, language and affect.
- Executive function : Problems with planning, set-shifting, abstract reasoning, verbal fluency, and working memory, and there is often perseveration, distractibility and inattention.
- Language problems : Dysprosodia, agrammatism and mild anomia.
- Spatial cognition : Visual–spatial disorganization and impaired visual–spatial memory.
- Personality changes manifest as blunting of affect or disinhibited and inappropriate behavior.