Anterior Cingulate Cortex
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Generation of Medial Thalamus-Anterior Cingulate Cortex Slices from Mouse Brains
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2025
The video demonstrates the preparation of medial thalamus-anterior cingulate cortex (MT-ACC) slices from mouse brains. A mouse's brain is dissected, cuts are made to expose the MT-ACC pathway, and slices are generated using a vibratome. The MT-ACC slices are then maintained in oxygenated artificial cerebrospinal fluid.
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Investigating the Function of Deep Cortical and Subcortical Structures Using Stereotactic Electroencephalography: Lessons from the Anterior Cingulate Cortex
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2015
Stereotactic Electroencephalography (SEEG) is an operative technique used in epilepsy surgery to help localize seizure foci. It also affords a unique opportunity to investigate brain function. Here we describe how SEEG can be used to investigate cognitive processes in human subjects.
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Monitoring the Brain Cortex with a Multi-Electrode Array in Response to Seizure-Inducing Agents
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2025
In this video, the effects of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) on brain slices containing the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and thalamus regions are investigated, using a multi-electrode array (MEA) to measure electric signals. By delivering electric pulses and infusing seizure-inducing drugs, the study investigates the ACC response to seizures.
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Anterior Eye Segment Dissection: A Method to Isolate Cornea Bearing Anterior Segment from Porcine Eye
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2025
In this video, we demonstrate the dissection of the cornea-bearing anterior segment of the porcine eye. The isolated segment can be used for organ culturing to study the pathophysiology of eye disorders.
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Implantation of Electrodes into a Mouse Cortex for Electrocorticographic Recordings
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2025
This video demonstrates a protocol for implanting electrocorticographic electrodes in the mouse cerebral cortex to record electrical signals in response to adeno-associated viruses that target and manipulate cofilin expression.
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The anterior cingulate cortex monitors competing demands and detects when outcomes or actions do not match expectations. This information can prompt adjustments in attention, motivation, or behavior through communication with prefrontal and motor systems. In psychology, this mechanism helps explain how people recognize problems during demanding tasks and modify their responses to improve adaptation.
Communication with prefrontal, limbic, and motor systems allows the ACC to connect evaluation with action. Prefrontal interactions support cognitive control, limbic connections relate monitoring to emotion, and motor-system communication helps translate changing priorities into behavior. This coordinated activity explains why ACC function is relevant to decisions that require thought, feeling, and action together.
ACC research links the region to pain processing and emotional regulation, showing that these functions involve more than immediate sensory or emotional responses. Its role in monitoring outcomes and adjusting motivation helps place pain and emotion within broader behavioral decisions. This perspective is useful for understanding how people regulate responses while circumstances or demands change.
By monitoring outcomes, the ACC provides information that can guide changes in later behavior. When outcomes reveal conflict, error, or a competing demand, the system can adjust attention, motivation, and action. In psychological models, this supports learning from experience and helps explain how decision-making becomes more adaptive rather than remaining fixed after an unsuccessful response.
Research on the anterior cingulate cortex contributes to several areas of psychology, including cognitive control, pain processing, emotional regulation, learning, and social behavior. Examining the region across these domains helps researchers connect brain activity with observable changes in attention, motivation, decisions, actions, and interpersonal behavior, rather than treating cognition and emotion as separate processes.
Altered ACC activity has been associated with depression, anxiety, and addiction, making the region relevant to psychological models of mental health. Its involvement in monitoring, motivation, emotion, and behavioral adjustment offers a framework for studying how these conditions may affect adaptive responses. This research also supports consideration of potential clinical interventions, without implying that ACC activity alone explains any disorder.