Claustrum

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Brain: Claustrum
Horizontal section of right cerebral hemisphere.
Coronal section of brain immediately in front of pons.
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Gray's	subject #189 836
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Artery
Vein
BrainInfo/UW	hier-234
MeSH	A08.186.211.730.885.105

The claustrum is a thin layer of grey matter lying between the extreme capsule and external capsule in the brain. Its function is not completely known, although it has reciprocal connections with the cerebral cortex.

Francis Crick, a neuroscientist keen on studying the neural correlate of consciousness, pointed to the claustrum as one of the most probable key components of consciousness in his last works [1].

[edit] References

• Francis C. Crick and Christof Koch, "What is the function of the claustrum?," Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. Biol. Sci., volume 360, number 1458, pp. 1271-1279, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2005.1661.

[edit] External links

• BrainMaps at UCDavis Claustrum

Telencephalon (cerebrum, cerebral cortex, cerebral hemispheres) - edit

primary sulci/fissures: medial longitudinal, lateral, central, parietoöccipital, calcarine, cingulate frontal lobe: precentral gyrus (primary motor cortex, 4), precentral sulcus, superior frontal gyrus (6, 8), middle frontal gyrus (46), inferior frontal gyrus (Broca's area, 44-pars opercularis, 45-pars triangularis), prefrontal cortex (orbitofrontal cortex, 9, 10, 11, 12, 47) parietal lobe: postcentral sulcus, postcentral gyrus (1, 2, 3, 43), superior parietal lobule (5), inferior parietal lobule (39-angular gyrus, 40), precuneus (7), intraparietal sulcus occipital lobe: primary visual cortex (17), cuneus, lingual gyrus, 18, 19 (18 and 19 span whole lobe) temporal lobe: transverse temporal gyrus (41-42-primary auditory cortex), superior temporal gyrus (38, 22-Wernicke's area), middle temporal gyrus (21), inferior temporal gyrus (20), fusiform gyrus (36, 37) limbic lobe/fornicate gyrus: cingulate cortex/cingulate gyrus, anterior cingulate (24, 32, 33), posterior cingulate (23, 31), isthmus (26, 29, 30), parahippocampal gyrus (piriform cortex, 25, 27, 35), entorhinal cortex (28, 34) subcortical/insular cortex: rhinencephalon, olfactory bulb, corpus callosum, lateral ventricles, septum pellucidum, ependyma, internal capsule, corona radiata, external capsule hippocampal formation: dentate gyrus, hippocampus, subiculum basal ganglia: striatum (caudate nucleus, putamen), lentiform nucleus (putamen, globus pallidus), claustrum, extreme capsule, amygdala, nucleus accumbens Some categorizations are approximations, and some Brodmann areas span gyri.

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