<P> The pineal gland is a midline brain structure that is unpaired . It takes its name from its pine - cone shape . The gland is reddish - gray and about the size of a grain of rice ( 5 -- 8 mm ) in humans . The pineal gland , also called the pineal body , is part of the epithalamus , and lies between the laterally positioned thalamic bodies and behind the habenular commissure . It is located in the quadrigeminal cistern near to the corpora quadrigemina . It is also located behind the third ventricle and is bathed in cerebrospinal fluid supplied through a small pineal recess of the third ventricle which projects into the stalk of the gland . </P>
<P> The pineal gland is a midline brain structure that is unpaired . It takes its name from its pine - cone shape . The gland is reddish - gray and about the size of a grain of rice ( 5 -- 8 mm ) in humans . The pineal gland , also called the pineal body , is part of the epithalamus , and lies between the laterally positioned thalamic bodies and behind the habenular commissure . It is located in the quadrigeminal cistern near to the corpora quadrigemina . It is also located behind the third ventricle and is bathed in cerebrospinal fluid supplied through a small pineal recess of the third ventricle which projects into the stalk of the gland . </P>
the can be found as part of the epithalamus near the superior colliculi of the midbrain
the can be found as part of the epithalamus near the superior colliculi of the midbrain
pineal gland
pineal gland