Cingulate sulcus

A fissure on the mesial surface of the cerebral hemisphere, bounding the upper surface of the cingulate gyrus, curving up to the superomedial margin of the hemisphere, and bordering the paracentral lobule posteriorly.

Brain: Cingulate sulcus
Medial surface of left cerebral hemisphere.
MRI showing the cingulate sulcus in a human.
Latin	sulcus cinguli
Gray's	subject #189 820
NeuroNames	hier-142
NeuroLex ID	birnlex_1468

The cingulate sulcus is a sulcus (brain fold) on the medial wall of the cerebral cortex. The frontal and parietal lobes are separated by the cingulate sulcus from the cingulate gyrus.

See also

• Cingulate gyrus
• Cingulate cortex

External links

• Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, at Elsevier 13048.000-3
• NIF Search - Cingulate Sulcus via the Neuroscience Information Framework

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v • d • e Human brain: telencephalon (cerebrum · cerebral cortex · cerebral hemispheres, grey matter) (TA A14.1.09.002-240, 301-320, GA 9.818-826) Primary four surface lobes Frontal lobe Precentral gyrus (Primary motor cortex, 4) Superior frontal gyrus/Frontal eye fields (6, 8, 9) · Middle frontal gyrus (46) · Inferior frontal gyrus/Broca's area (44-Pars opercularis, 45-Pars triangularis) Orbitofrontal cortex (10, 11, 12, 47) Prefrontal cortex · Premotor cortex Precentral sulcus · Superior frontal sulcus · Inferior frontal sulcus · Olfactory sulcus Subcallosal area · Paraterminal gyrus · Paraolfactory area Parietal lobe Somatosensory cortex (Primary (1 · 2 · 3 · 43) · Secondary (5)) · Precuneus (7m) · Parietal operculum Parietal lobules (Superior (7l) · Inferior (40)) · Angular gyrus (39) Intraparietal sulcus · Marginal sulcus Occipital lobe Primary visual cortex (17) · (Cuneus · Lingual gyrus · Lateral occipital gyrus (18, 19)) Calcarine fissure Temporal lobe Primary auditory cortex (41, 42) · Superior temporal gyrus (38, 22/Wernicke's area) · Middle temporal gyrus (21) · Inferior temporal gyrus (20) Fusiform gyrus (37) Medial temporal lobe ((27 · 28 · 34 · 35 · 36)) Interlobar sulci/fissures lateral: Central (frontal+parietal) · Lateral (frontal+parietal+temporal) · Parieto-occipital medial: Medial longitudinal · Cingulate (frontal+cingulate) · Collateral (temporal+occipital) · Callosal sulcus Limbic lobe Parahippocampal gyrus · Entorhinal cortex · Uncus Cingulate cortex/gyrus: Subgenual area (25) · Anterior cingulate (24, 32, 33) · Posterior cingulate (23, 31) · Retrosplenial cortex (26, 29, 30) Hippocampal sulcus Insular lobe Circular sulcus of insula General Operculum · Poles of cerebral hemispheres Some categorizations are approximations, and some Brodmann areas span gyri.

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