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Brain: Cingulate gyrus
Medial surface of left cerebral hemisphere.
Human brain inferior-medial view (Cingulate gyrus is #7)
Latin	gyrus cinguli
Components	Anterior cingulate gyrus, Posterior cingulate gyrus
NeuroNames	hier-141
MeSH	Gyrus+Cinguli
NeuroLex ID	birnlex_798

Cingulate gyrus is shown in yellow.

Cingulate gyrus (belt ridge in eng.) is a gyrus in the medial part of the brain. It partially wraps around the corpus callosum and is limited above by the cingulate sulcus.

The cortical part of the cingulate gyrus is referred to as cingulate cortex.

Connections

The cingulate gyrus receives inputs from the anterior nucleus of the thalamus and the neocortex, as well as from somatosensory areas of the cerebral cortex. It projects to the entorhinal cortex via the cingulum.

Function

It functions as an integral part of the limbic system, which is involved with emotion formation and processing, learning, and memory. Also, executive control needed to suppress inappropriate unconscious priming is known to involve the anterior cingulate gyrus. It is also involved in respiratory control.

See also

• Cingulate sulcus
• Cingulate cortex
• Brodmann area 24

References

• Pain Stimuli Recorded Over the Human Anterior Cingulate Gyrus, Lenz, et al.

External links

• BrainMaps at UCDavis cingulate gyrus

• Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, at Elsevier 13048.000-3

External links

• NIF Search - Cingulate gyrus via the Neuroscience Information Framework