Cuneus

Cuneus
Cuneus
	Medial surface of left cerebral hemisphere. (Cuneus visible at left in red.)
	Sagittal MRI slicewith the cuneus and lingual gyrus shown in red.
Details
Artery	posterior cerebral artery
Identifiers
NeuroNames	157
NeuroLexID	birnlex_1396
TA98	A14.1.09.224
TA2	5485
FMA	61903
	Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy [edit on Wikidata]

Thecuneus(fromLatin'wedge';pl.:cunei) is a smaller lobe in theoccipital lobeof thebrain.The cuneus is boundedanteriorlyby theparieto-occipital sulcusandinferiorlyby thecalcarine sulcus.

Function

The cuneus (Brodmann area 17) receives visual information from the same-sided superior quadrantic retina (corresponding to contralateral inferior visual field). It is most known for its involvement in basic visual processing.Pyramidal cellsin thevisual cortex(or striate cortex) of the cuneus, project toextrastriatecortices (BA 18,19). The mid-level visual processing that occurs in the extrastriate projection fields of the cuneus are modulated by extraretinal effects, like attention, working memory, and reward expectation.

Clinical research

In addition to its traditional role as a site for basic visual processing, gray matter volume in the cuneus is associated with better inhibitory control in bipolar depression patients.^[1]

Pathologic gamblers have higher activity in the dorsal visual processing stream including the cuneus relative to controls.^[2]

Gallery

Position of cuneus(red) of left cerebral hemisphere.
Medial surface of left cerebral hemisphere. Cuneus is visible at left in green.
Infero-medial surface of right cerebral hemisphere. The color brown representsoccipital lobe.
Medial surface of right cerebral hemisphere. Cuneus labeled at right.
Cuneus, shown in the right cerebral hemisphere.
Cuneus highlighted in green on coronal T1 MRI images
Cuneus highlighted in green on sagittal T1 MRI images
Cuneus highlighted in green on transversal T1 MRI images

References

General sources

^Haldane M, Cunningham G, Androutsos C, Frangou S (March 2008). "Structural brain correlates of response inhibition in Bipolar Disorder I".Journal of Psychopharmacology.22(2): 138–43.doi:10.1177/0269881107082955.PMID 18308812.
^Crockford DN, Goodyear B, Edwards J, Quickfall J, el-Guebaly N (November 2005)."Cue-induced brain activity in pathological gamblers"(PDF).Biological Psychiatry.58(10): 787–95.doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.04.037.PMID 15993856.

Further reading

Sherrington, Charles Scott(1911)."Brain".InChisholm, Hugh(ed.).Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 391–413.See p. 397 for reference to "cuneus".

External links

[1] Haldane M, Cunningham G, Androutsos C, Frangou S (March 2008). "Structural brain correlates of response inhibition in Bipolar Disorder I".Journal of Psychopharmacology.22(2): 138–43.doi:10.1177/0269881107082955.PMID 18308812.

[2] Crockford DN, Goodyear B, Edwards J, Quickfall J, el-Guebaly N (November 2005)."Cue-induced brain activity in pathological gamblers"(PDF).Biological Psychiatry.58(10): 787–95.doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.04.037.PMID 15993856.

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