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Cingulate Gyrus

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The cingulate gyrus is a prominent part of the cerebral cortex on the medial edge of each cerebral hemisphere (Fig. 1).

Cingulate Gyrus. Figure 1
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Medial surface of the monkey (Macaca mulatta) cerebral hemisphere showing the cingulate gyrus (outlined by the dashed line). Abbreviations: CCb, CCg, CCs, body, genu and splenium of the corpus callosum, respectively.

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  1. Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Brent A. Vogt

  2. Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Vermillion, SD, USA

    Robert J. Morecraft

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  1. Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA

    Marc D. Binder

  2. Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Nobutaka Hirokawa

  3. Göttingen, Germany

    Uwe Windhorst

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Vogt, B.A., Morecraft, R.J. (2009). Cingulate Gyrus. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_1040

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