Brodmann area 10 (
BA10,
frontopolar prefrontal cortex,
rostrolateral prefrontal cortex, or
anterior prefrontal cortex) is the anterior-most portion of the
prefrontal cortex in the
human brain. BA10 was originally defined broadly in terms of its
cytoarchitectonic traits as they were observed in the brains of cadavers, but because modern
functional imaging cannot precisely identify these boundaries, the terms
anterior prefrontal cortex,
rostral prefrontal cortex and
frontopolar prefrontal cortex are used to refer to the area in the most anterior part of the frontal cortex that approximately covers BA10—simply to emphasize the fact that BA10 does not include
all parts of the prefrontal cortex.