Brodmann area 25
Brodmann area 25 (BA25) is an area in the
cerebral cortex of the
brain and delineated based on its
cytoarchitectonic characteristics. It is also called the subgenual area or
area subgenualis. It is the 25th "
Brodmann area" defined by
Korbinian Brodmann (thus its name).BA25 is located in the
cingulate region as part of the
subcallosal area.
One study has noted that BA25 is metabolically overactive in treatment-resistant
depression and has found that chronic
deep brain stimulation in the
white matter adjacent to the area is a successful
antidepressant for some patients.
Area 25 of Brodmann-1909 is a subdivision of the cerebral cortex of the
guenon defined on the basis of
cytoarchitecture and
topology (Brodmann-1909). While Brodmann did not include it in the illustration of the guenon cortex, he described it as a portion of
area 24 of Brodmann-1905 that was
homologous to the subgenual area 25 of the human and that appears as Brodmann's area 25 in a topologically homologous location in Vogt-87. Note that Brodmann earlier assigned the number 25 to
area 32 of Brodmann-1909 (Brodmann-1905 and Mauss-1908).
*
Douglas M. Bowden and others,
Subgenual area 25,
BrainInfo.
*
Helen S. Mayberg and others, "Deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression",
Neuron, volume 45, 2005. and "Defining Neruocircuits in Depression",
Psychiatric Annals, volume 36, number 4, April 2006.
* Brodmann area 24 in guenon from
BrainInfo*
Brodmann area*
List of regions in the human brain
