Generally speaking, gray matter facilitates most of the brain's signaling and is central to sensory perceptions, while white matter is largely
nerve fiber bundles that enable communication between brain regions.
Not exact matches
«The human brain is divided into two hemispheres, the left and right, connected by a
bundle of
nerve fibers called the corpus callosum.
Each color represents the direction of flow of a tract, or a
bundle of
nerve fibers.
At one point, the researchers witnessed a microglial cell creeping, amoeba - like, through densely interwoven
nerve fibers as it displaced a neuronal cell body and its
bundle of axons.
She and her colleagues found that people born face - blind have a smaller - than - normal
bundle of
nerve fibers linking the facial fusiform area to other regions toward the front of the brain.
Researchers from the MIND Institute at University of California, Davis, USA, found sex differences in children with autism when looking at the organization of
fibers in the corpus callosum, the largest
bundle of
nerve fibers in the brain.2
He sliced quickly through the corpus callosum, the flat
bundle of
nerve fibers that connects the halves.
The study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease focused on a type of brain tissue called white matter, which is composed of millions of
bundles of
nerve fibers used by neurons to communicate across the brain.
For example, the center's brain malformation study group has identified two genes associated with abnormalities of the corpus callosum, conditions in which the
bundle of
nerve fibers that connect the brain's two hemispheres is missing or incomplete.
The brain may further modulate the pain signal by activating the «descending pain control system,» made up of
bundles of
nerve fibers that travel from brain to spinal cord to decrease the pain signal.
Bundles of
nerve fibers coarse through the marmoset brain making short - range connections within the cortex and long - range connections between different regions.
nerve A whitish
fiber or
bundle of
fibers that carries signals to the brain or spinal cord, or from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles and organs
spinal cord A cylindrical
bundle of
nerve fibers and associated tissue.
It consists mainly of
bundles of
nerve fibers.
The secondary endpoint of change in thickness of the temporal quadrant and papillomacular
bundle of the retinal
nerve fiber layer from baseline to week 48 demonstrated a large statistically significant difference (p = 0.0359) between all GS010 - treated eyes and all sham - treated eyes, with untreated eyes showing a loss of 3.4 μm while treated eyes showed a limited loss of 0.6 μm.
A
bundle of more than one million
nerve fibers, or axons, which carry visual information from the eye to the brain.
The Nobel Prize - winning physiologist Haldan Hartline discovered that the optic
nerve of Limulus polyphemus could be frayed into thin
bundles, and then further split apart until he had a single
fiber on which to run his experiments.
Acupuncture points have been studied under the microscope and have been proven to be the location of
bundles of specialized
nerve fibers, blood vessels, and cells with special functions (ie - Mast cells, which release histamine).