The paracentral sulcus is a sulcus of the

brain The brain is an organ (biology), organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It consists of nervous tissue and is typically located in the head (cephalization), usually near organs for ...

. It forms the

paracentral lobule In neuroanatomy, the paracentral lobule is on the medial surface of the cerebral hemisphere and is the continuation of the precentral and postcentral gyri. The paracentral lobule controls motor and sensory innervations of the contralateral low ...

's anterior border. It is part of the

cingulate sulcus The cingulate cortex is a part of the brain situated in the medial aspect of the cerebral cortex. The cingulate cortex includes the entire cingulate gyrus, which lies immediately above the corpus callosum, and the continuation of this in the cin ...

Gallery

File:Gray727 cingulate sulcus.svg, Medial surface of left cerebral hemisphere. (

Cingulate sulcus The cingulate cortex is a part of the brain situated in the medial aspect of the cerebral cortex. The cingulate cortex includes the entire cingulate gyrus, which lies immediately above the corpus callosum, and the continuation of this in the cin ...

shaded in red.)

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20090505144011/http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/atlas/n1a2p12.html Cerebrum Sulci (neuroanatomy) {{neuroanatomy-stub