<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f1c41c68-fb58-479a-a437-bcb24416d42c/85BF5B7A-4C3D-4AB6-B50F-549FB5E7EB54/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anterior_cingulate_cortex&oldid=325407416" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anterior_cingulate_cortex&oldid=325407416" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anterior_cingulate_cortex&oldid=325407416"><P>The <B>anterior cingulate cortex</B> (ACC) is the frontal part of the <A title="Cingulate cortex" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cingulate_cortex">cingulate cortex</A>, that resembles a "collar" form around the <A title="Corpus callosum" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum">corpus callosum</A>, the fibrous bundle that relays <A title="Neuron" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron">neural signals</A> between the right and left <A title="Cerebral hemisphere" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_hemisphere">cerebral hemispheres</A> of the <A title="Brain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain">brain</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anterior_cingulate_cortex&oldid=325407416"><P>It includes both the <A title="Brodmann area 24" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodmann_area_24">ventral</A> and <A title="Dorsum (biology)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsum_(biology)">dorsal</A> <A title="Brodmann area 32" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodmann_area_32">areas</A> of the cingulate cortex, and appears to play a role in a wide variety of <A title="Autonomic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic">autonomic</A> functions, such as regulating <A title="Blood pressure" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_pressure">blood pressure</A> and <A title="Heart rate" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rate">heart rate</A>, as well as <A title="Rationality" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationality">rational</A> <A class="mw-redirect" title="Cognitive" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive">cognitive</A> functions, such as <A class="mw-redirect" title="Pavlovian conditioning" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlovian_conditioning">reward anticipation</A>, decision-making, <A title="Empathy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy">empathy</A> and <A title="Emotion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion">emotion</A><SUP title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from July 2009" class="noprint Template-Fact">[<I><A title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</A></I>]</SUP>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anterior_cingulate_cortex&oldid=325407416"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/CF3EF95F-9D12-459A-A091-95DCDAA0F16E" alt="Gray727 anterior cingulate cortex.png" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anterior_cingulate_cortex&oldid=325407416">The dorsal part of the ACC</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anterior_cingulate_cortex&oldid=325407416">a central station for processing top-down and bottom-up stimuli and assigning appropriate control to other areas in the brain. By contrast, the ventral part of the ACC is connected with amygdala, nucleus accumbens, hypothalamus, and anterior insula, and is involved in assessing the salience of emotion and motivational information. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anterior_cingulate_cortex&oldid=325407416">early learning and problem-solving</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/85BF5B7A-4C3D-4AB6-B50F-549FB5E7EB54/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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