cingulate gyrus; gyrus cinguli; cingulate cortex

Function: - the cingulate cortex facilitates limbic motivational mapping of extrapersonal space. Structure: -the anterior cingulate cortex connects with the nucleus accumbens, globus pallidus & thalamus Pathology: - interruption of cingulate gyrus connections results in - apathy - poverty of speech - sometimes akinetic mutism

References

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th ed. Fauci et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1998, pg 138, 144