0 an area of the brain that is an important part of the limbic system (= the part of the nervous system that controls many of our emotions ) --
Subjects with mania showed areas of increased activation, relative to controls, in response to sad facial expressions, in the posterior cingulate cortex and posterior insula.
These structures project to the cingulate cortex and diffusely to a wide area of cortex.
In association with reading the potentially self-referential statements, deluded subjects showed significantly attenuated anterior cingulate cortex activation compared to control subjects.
During a single-cell recording experiment in the anterior cingulate cortex, a variety of painful and innocuous stimuli were administered to awake human patients.
Predominant among these are the hypothalamus, amygdala and cingulate cortex, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex.
Increased concentrations of presynaptic proteins in the cingulate cortex of subjects with schizophrenia.
The anterior cingulate cortex is responsible for the voluntary initiation of voice in monkeys.
Dissociating the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex in cognitive control.
