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Brain, Vol. 126, No. 10, 2119-2120, October 2003
© 2003 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awg257

Editorial

Anterior cingulate cortex regulation of sympathetic activity

Phan Luu1,2 and Michael I. Posner1

1 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA 2 Electrical Geodesics Inc., Eugene, OR, USA

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Why the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is active in such a wide variety of cognitive and emotional tasks has become an important issue in recent research. In this issue of Brain, Critchley et al. (2003Go) report changes in heart rate in both cognitive and motor tasks related to the strength of activation in the ACC. They interpret their findings as supporting a view that the anterior cingulate is involved in the regulation of autonomic activity according to the current context of behavior.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Broca used the term ‘limbic’ to describe the medial convolution that borders the corpus callosum of each . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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