A small area seen underneath the frontal cortex, lying just behind the olfactory trigone (the start of the lateral and medial olfactory stria) and in front of the optic tract and lateral to the optic chiasm. It is “perforated” by numerous branches of the anterior and middle cerebral arteries. This “Substance” is gray matter and receives some olfactory inputs.
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