The region of the cerebral cortex covering the basal surface of the frontal lobes; this region normally controls emotion and decision making. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith MP:0004170 http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0021769 ]
Synonyms: orbital frontal cortex fronto-orbital cortex orbito-frontal cortex
Term information
- Wikipedia:Orbitofrontal_cortex
- FMA:242003
- DHBA:10194
- BIRNLEX:1049
- UMLS:C0152301 (BIRNLEX:1049)
- neuronames:91
- EFO:0001990
efo_slim, pheno_slim
Term relations
- frontal gyrus
- contributes to morphology of some frontal cortex
- part of some limbic system
- part of some frontal cortex
- contributes to morphology of some cerebral cortex