cingulum

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The blue arc in the middle of the brain is part of the cingulum bundle.

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  1. noun Biology A girdlelike marking or structure, such as a band or ridge, on an animal.

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  • The blue arc in the middle of the brain is part of the cingulum bundle. —  Technology Review RSS Feeds
  • The fMRI showed increased activity in brain regions located in the frontal lobe, where a part of the working memory network is located, and the anterior cingulum, the part of the brain that controls attention. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Results Compared with controls, patients showed significantly more decline in gray matter density of the hippocampus, anterior cingulum, left amygdala, and right dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. —  Archives of General Psychiatry current issue
  • Patients who remitted during the 3-year period had less volume decline than nonremitted patients in the left hippocampus, left anterior cingulum, left dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, and bilaterally in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. —  Archives of General Psychiatry current issue
  • Conclusion This study supports findings from animal studies of neuroplastic stress-related processes that occur in the hippocampus, amygdala, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and anterior cingulum during depressive episodes. —  Archives of General Psychiatry current issue
 

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  1. Latin, girdle, from cingere, to gird; see kenk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. L. (Middle Latin New Latin): see cingle.
 

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/ˈsɪŋgjuləm/
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