Cingulate gyrus

The cingulate gyrus is part of the limbic system.

Anatomy

The cingulate gyrus is located superior to the Corpus callosum and is bounded superiorly by the Sulcus cinguliCingulum, runs within the white matter of the cingulate gyrus.

Brodmann area

The cingulate gyrus is assigned to Brodmann area 24[^1].

Imaging

Gyrus cinguli on MRI
Visualization of the cingulate gyrus (red arrow) on a postcontrast T1-weighted MRI sequence in three different planes.
Cingulate Sulcus and Central Sulcus on MRI
Visualization of the cingulate sulcus (blue) and central sulcus (red) on a sagittal MRI image.

Surgical approaches

The cingulate gyrus can, for example, be reached via an interhemispheric or a contralateral transfalcine interhemispheric approach[^2].

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