Cingulate cortex

Cingulate cortex
Medial surface of left cerebral hemisphere, with cingulate gyrus and cingulate sulcus highlighted.
Details
Part of	Cerebral cortex
Artery	Anterior cerebral
Vein	Superior sagittal sinus
Identifiers
Latin	Cortex cingularis, gyrus cinguli
Acronym(s)	Cg
MeSH	A08.186.211.577.330
NeuroNames	hier-141
NeuroLex ID	Cingulate cortex
TA	A14.1.09.231
FMA	62434
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy []

The cingulate cortex, a part of the entorhinal cortex, is a part of the brain situated in the medial aspect of the cerebral cortex. The cingulate cortex includes the entire cingulate gyrus, which lies immediately above the corpus callosum, and the continuation of this in the cingulate sulcus. The cingulate cortex is usually considered part of the limbic lobe.

It receives inputs from the thalamus and the neocortex, and projects to the entorhinal cortex via the cingulum. It is an integral part of the limbic system, which is involved with emotion formation and processing, learning, and memory. The combination of these three functions makes the cingulate gyrus highly influential in linking behavioral outcomes to motivation (e.g. a certain action induced a positive emotional response, which results in learning). This role makes the cingulate cortex highly important in disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. It also plays a role in executive function and respiratory control.

Cingulate: Latin, vocative masculine singular of cingulātus (girdle)

Based on cerebral cytoarchitectonics it has been divided into the Brodmann areas 23, 24, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33. The areas 26, 29 and 30 are usually referred to as the retrosplenial areas.