Posterior cingulate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (273 words) |
 | The posterior cingulate cortex is the backmost part of the cingulate cortex. |
 | The cingulate cortex is made up of an area around the midline of the brain. |
 | Cytoarchitectonically posterior cingulate cortex is associated with Brodmann areas 23 and 31. |
Cingulate cortex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (772 words) |
 | The cingulate cortex is a part of the brain situated in the medial aspect of the cortex. |
 | The cingulate cortex is a part of the "grand lobe limbique" of Broca (1898) that comprised (in addition to the olfactory part, which is no more considered there today) a superior cingulate part, supracallosal and an inferior hippocampic part, infracallosal. |
 | The posterior cingulate cortex receives a great part of its afferent axons from the superficial nucleus (or nucleus superior- falsely LD-) of the thalamus (see thalamus), which itself receives axons from the subiculum. |