Cingulate gyrus at a glance
- What it is
- The cingulate gyrus is a long arching gyrus on the medial surface of the cerebral hemisphere above the corpus callosum and a major part of the limbic lobe.
- Location
- It lies on the medial surface of each hemisphere, separated from the corpus callosum by the callosal sulcus and from the superior frontal gyrus by the cingulate sulcus.
- Function
- It integrates emotion, motivation and attention with motor control and is involved in pain processing, error monitoring and autonomic regulation.
- Body system
- Nervous · paired (left and right)
- FMA ID
- FMA72718 (Foundational Model of Anatomy)
Key facts
- Connected to the hippocampus via the cingulum bundle and parahippocampal gyrus.
- Part of the Papez circuit.
Structures next to the cingulate gyrus
The nearest named structures in the 3D model, measured from the centre of each part:
- Internal capsule · nervous
- Caudate nucleus · nervous
- Stria terminalis · nervous
- Thalamus · nervous
- Corpus callosum · nervous
- Pericallosal artery · cardiovascular
- Globus pallidus · nervous
- Fornix of forebrain · nervous
- Anterolateral central branch of middle cerebral artery · cardiovascular
- Putamen · nervous
References
- Foundational Model of Anatomy: Cingulate gyrus (FMA72718). EMBL-EBI Ontology Lookup Service.
- OpenStax. Anatomy and Physiology 2e, §12.1 Basic Structure and Function of the Nervous System. Rice University, 2022.
- Mitsuhashi N. et al. (2009). BodyParts3D: 3D structure database for anatomical concepts. Nucleic Acids Research 37, D782–D785. Data © The Database Center for Life Science, CC BY 4.0.
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