We recently showed that the activity of cerebellar Golgi cells can be powerfully modulated by
stimulation of peripheral afferents, in a pattern different to local Purkinje cells. Here we have
examined the pathways underlying these responses. Graded electrical stimulation of muscle
and cutaneous nerves revealed that long‐lasting depressions and short‐lasting excitations
of Golgi cells were evoked by stimulation of cutaneous nerves at stimulus intensities that
activated large mechanoreceptive afferents, and grew as additional afferents were recruited …

Golgi cells are important players in the function of the cerebellar cortex, controlling the flow
of incoming information from mossy fibres to the granule cells, which excite other cortical
neurons. We recently showed that in anaesthetized rats most Golgi cells respond to
stimulation of afferents from a very wide peripheral receptive field with a long‐lasting
depression of firing. These responses are mediated via a crossed ascending afferent
pathway but the supraspinal part of this pathway is unknown. Here we have examined the …