{"id":16364,"date":"2006-01-24T09:04:58","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/01\/24\/cingulate-gyrus.html"},"modified":"2006-01-24T09:04:58","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T17:04:58","slug":"cingulate-gyrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/01\/24\/cingulate-gyrus\/","title":{"rendered":"cingulate gyrus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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...we found increased activation in brain regions [including...] posterior cingulate gyrus activation in post-therapy response to forgivability judgments. [...] Empathic and forgivability judgments activate specific regions of the human brain[....]<\/p>\n

--First study to watch brain patterns when forgiving<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Or to put it another way, the cingulate gyrus (a ridge in the brain that partly wraps around the corpus callosum) appears to be involved in making decisions about judging whether a person or action can be forgiven.<\/p>\n

I was vaguely aware that \"cingulate\" was a word before, and I'm generally not posting here about words I've seen for a long time but didn't know the meaning of 'til now. And I'm certainly not going to post an entry for every anatomy term that I haven't seen before--even the brief Wikipedia entry for cingulate gyrus<\/a> contains a dozen such words (including \"fornicate gyrus<\/a>,\" which isn't what it sounds like). But I thought it was interesting that there's a particular region of the brain associated with forgiveness.<\/p>\n

I also thought it was interesting that various nonscientific articles refer to the region simply as the \"cingulate,\" leaving out \"gyrus.\" I can't tell whether that's accurate terminology or not; there are other parts of the brain whose names also include \"cingulate,\" which is an adjective meaning (sez MW3) \"having a girdle especially of transverse bands or markings.\"<\/p>\n

Anyway, the other reason I thought it was worth mentioning here is that every time I see \"cingulate\" I think \"Cingular.\" I wonder if the people who came up with that brand name were familiar with the term \"cingulate,\" and if not, what led them to put a C at the beginning.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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