#cingulate gyrus

The amygdala is our so-called “lizard brain” where we feel our most reactive, freaked out, base emotions. Lucky for us humans we also have the cingulate gurus, which talks your lizard brain freakouts over to the frontal lobe for reasoning. Thanks, cingulate gyrus!

A method for safely resecting anterior butterfly gliomas

J Neurosurg 126:1795–1811, 2017

Gliomas invading the anterior corpus callosum are commonly deemed unresectable due to an unacceptable risk/benefit ratio, including the risk of abulia. In this study, the authors investigated the anatomy of the cingulum and its connectivity within the default mode network (DMN). A technique is described involving awake subcortical mapping with higher attention…

A method for safely resecting anterior butterfly gliomas

J Neurosurg 126:1795–1811, 2017

Gliomas invading the anterior corpus callosum are commonly deemed unresectable due to an unacceptable risk/benefit ratio, including the risk of abulia. In this study, the authors investigated the anatomy of the cingulum and its connectivity within the default mode network (DMN). A technique is described involving awake subcortical mapping with higher attention…

#AESmtg14 highlights: Frontal lobe epilepsy semiology & cognitive aspects, masterful lesson by Pr. Patrick Chauvel

Here is my live-tweeting from this Special Interest Group session from the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society on Dec. 7 in Seattle, WA, collected on Storify.

This session in fact turned into one long presentation by Prof. Patrick Chauvel, from the CHU of Marseille. And it was a truly masterful lesson, with many fascinating video-intracranial EEG presentations of patients with…

BRAIN REGIONS DURING THE DEPRESSION Cingulate Gyrus

BRAIN REGIONS DURING THE DEPRESSION

Cingulate Gyrus

One of the most affected in both depression and manic phase regions of the prefrontal cortex ( a manic-depressive ) is the ventromedial cortex (also called ” subgenual ” because beneath the knee of the corpus callosum ) . This region located deep frontal lobes on each side of the center line separating the two hemispheres , allows us to move…

Cingulate gyrus of left hemisphere

The cingulate gyrus includes both the anterior and posterior cingulate cortices. This part of the brain wraps above the corpus callosum (the band of neural fibers that connects the two hemispheres of the brain).

The functions of the cingulate gyrus currently appear to include:

Primary (subconscious) error detection

Attention maintenance and motivation

Reward-based learning

Recognition of the "self" (this function, as well as the entire anterior cingulate cortex, is shown to be smaller than normal in schizophrenia)