Gray Matter

Overall , the study found that subjects who reported a family history of Alzheimer's disease showed an increase in "gray-matter atrophy," or brain shrinkage, over the two-year period compared with people who didn't have a family history of Alzheimer's. ❋ Jennifer Corbett Dooren (2011)

In several brain regions associated with "sensorimotor" learning, the researchers detected a gray-matter boost on the order of 3.5% to 5% for the new golfers. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Redford and Hoffman left an indelible impression on the tender gray-matter of my young brain so I chose to immerse myself in a trade with noble ideals but little contemporary real-world value. ❋ Dominick Bonny (2010)

Each time you present it, and each time I read it, it sinks a little deeper into the gray-matter quagmire of my mind. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As a 61 year old novice rider all of my attention and gray-matter was used to keep my bike upright and going where I wanted it to go. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The parietal lobes reach their gray-matter peak at 10 (girls) or 12 (boys), and are then pruned. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But the seats of language, as well as emotional control, called the temporal lobes, do not reach their gray-matter maximum until age 16, Giedd finds. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This, according to Rex Jung, a UNM neuropsychologist and co-author of the study, may help to explain why men tend to excel in tasks requiring more local processing (like mathematics), while women tend to excel at integrating and assimilating information from distributed gray-matter regions in the brain, such as required for language facility. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Network connectivity and gray-matter density were correlated to genetic factors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mental Health, wrote that, according to brain scans conducted over several years, gray-matter volume peaks around or just before the beginning of puberty, and then continuously declines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Its phrasing assumes that students are just passive receptacles, and if there was a failure of transmission, it's because I didn't adequately lubricate the hinges to their skulls, open the lids, and load in the new gray-matter for them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Muhlau et al. [34] used high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and found gray-matter increase only at the thalamic level in tinnitus sufferers. ❋ Qing Yang Et Al. (2010)