Perinatal hypoxia associated with long-term cerebellar learning deficits and Purkinje cell misfiring
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)

Oxygen deprivation associated with preterm birth leaves telltale signs on the brains of newborns in the form of alterations to cerebellar white matter at the cellular and the physiological levels. Now, an experimental model of this chronic hypoxia reveals that those cellular alterations have behavioral consequences.