All Articles Tagged As: gray matter
A unique study of former guerrillas in Colombia has helped scientists redefine their understanding of the key regions of the brain involved in literacy. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, has enabled the researchers to see how brain structure changed after learning to read.
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 | Learning to juggle leads to changes in the white matter of the brain, an Oxford University study has shown. ...> Full Article |
 | Study shows that meditation may increase gray matter ...> Full Article |
Protein could provoke immune attack on several cell types
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 | New study of visual working memory challenges previous thinking that these memories grow hazy before disappearing ...> Full Article |
Faulty brain connections conceal intentions of others in autism
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A new study has used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to identify several specific white matter regions as well as deep gray matter areas of the brain that appear sensitive to prenatal alcohol exposure.
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 | Healthy adults who were close to the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, have less gray matter in key emotion centers of their brains compared with people who were more than 200 miles away ...> Full Article |
A new rehabilitation therapy produces changes in the structure of the brain, the first evidence of actual brain remodeling resulting from a rehabilitation therapy.
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Using a novel imaging technique to study autistic children, researchers have found increased gray matter in the brain areas that govern social processing and learning by observation. Results of the study conducted at the Fay J. Lindner Center for Autism, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in Bethpage, N.Y., were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
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 | Scientist uncovering secrets of how the brain learned language. ...> Full Article |
Researchers have devised a testable model of human intelligence comprised of specific gray-matter processing centers and white-matter connections.
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Subplate neurons - once thought to die after directing the wiring of the cerebral cortex or gray matter� remain in the white matter of the adult brain in small numbers and maintain activity, communicating with other neurons in the brain said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Alabama at Birmingham in a report that appears in today's issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.
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