Neurosurgery notes/Anatomy/White matter tracts/Association fibres/Cingulum

Cingulum

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Association fibres

General

  • Aka: Cingulate fasciculus
  • An antero-posteriorly travelling tract that is adjacent to the midline in each hemisphere

Connections

  • Medial frontoparietotemporal connection
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2 parts that join just above the splenium

  • Anterodorsal segment
    • Overlying the corpus callosum
    • Within the cingulate gyrus
  • Posteroventral segment
    • Overlying the
    • Within in the parahipocampal gyrus
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Function

  • Dorsal limbic pathway
  • Behavioural inhibition
  • Attention
  • Mentalizing
  • Response selection and attention monitoring
  • Self-knowledge
  • Pain perception
  • Empathy
  • Person perception

Deficit

  • Behavioural disturbance (?)
    • Autism
    • ADHD
    • Schizophrenia
    • Depression
    • Anxiety
    • OCD
    • Psychopathy

Image

Calc, calcarine; Caud, caudate; Cor, corona; Mam, mammillo; Nucl, nucleus; Occip, occipital; Parahippo, parahippocampal; Paraterm, paraterminal; Par, parieto; Rad, radiata, radiations; ROI, region of interest; Thal, thalamic; Tr, tract.
Calc, calcarine; Caud, caudate; Cor, corona; Mam, mammillo; Nucl, nucleus; Occip, occipital; Parahippo, parahippocampal; Paraterm, paraterminal; Par, parieto; Rad, radiata, radiations; ROI, region of interest; Thal, thalamic; Tr, tract.