Recovery of an injured anterior cingulum to the basal forebrain in a patient with brain injury: a 4-year follow-up study of cognitive function

~[he cingulum, a long neural tract extending from the orbitof- rontal cortex to the medial temporal lobe, obtains cholinergic innervation from three cholinergic nuclei in the basal fore- brain （the nucleus basalis of Meynert [Ch 4], the medial septal nucleus [Ch 1 ], and the vertical nucleus of the diagonal band [Ch 2]）, and is the passage of the medial cholinergic pathway which supplies cholinergic innervation from the basal forebrain to the cerebral cortex （Folstein et al., 1975; Selden et al., 1998; Lucas-Meunier et al., 2003）. Therefore, it is important for cog- nition, especially memory function （Selden et al., 1998）.

The cingulum, a long neural tract extending from the orbitof- rontal cortex to the medial temporal lobe, obtains cholinergic innervation from three cholinergic nuclei in the basal fore- brain （the nucleus basalis of Meynert [Ch 4], the medial septal nucleus [Ch 1 ], and the vertical nucleus of the diagonal band [Ch 2]）, and is the passage of the medial cholinergic pathway which supplies cholinergic innervation from the basal forebrain to the cerebral cortex （Folstein et al., 1975; Selden et al., 1998; Lucas-Meunier et al., 2003）. Therefore, it is important for cog- nition, especially memory function （Selden et al., 1998）.