Brodmann area 33

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| Name = Brodmann area 33

| Latin = area praegenualis

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| Caption = Brodmann area 33 (shown in orange)

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| Caption2 = Medial surface of the brain with Brodmann's areas numbered.

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Brodmann area 33, also known as pregenual area 33, is a subdivision of the cytoarchitecturally defined cingulate region of cerebral cortex. It is a narrow band located in the anterior cingulate gyrus adjacent to the supracallosal gyrus in the depth of the callosal sulcus, near the genu of the corpus callosum.{{Cite journal |last1=L. |first1=Nicolae |last2=G. |first2=Lacob |last3=O. |first3=Popescu B. |date=2010-11-25 |title=Gelastic Seizures in a Patient with Right Gyrus Cinguli Astrocytoma |journal=Journal of Medicine and Life |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=433–436 |issn=1844-122X |pmc=3019062 |pmid=21254744 }} Cytoarchitecturally it is bounded by the ventral anterior cingulate area 24 and the supracallosal gyrus (Brodmann-1909). The pregenual area 33 is heavily involved in emotions, especially happy emotions.{{cite journal |last1=Vogt |first1=Brent A. |title=Pain and emotion interactions in subregions of the cingulate gyrus |journal= Nature Reviews Neuroscience|date=2005 |volume=6 |issue=7 |pages=533–544 |doi=10.1038/nrn1704 |pmid=15995724 |pmc=2659949 }}{{Cite journal |last=Gasquoine |first=Philip Gerard |date=2013-01-03 |title=Localization of function in anterior cingulate cortex: from psychosurgery to functional neuroimaging |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23313645/ |url-status=live |journal=Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=340–348 |doi=10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.01.002 |issn=1873-7528 |pmid=23313645 |s2cid=19692387 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220821165838/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23313645/ |archive-date=2022-08-21 |access-date=2022-08-21 |via=National Library of Medicine}}