Sentences with phrase «white brain matter»

A recent study suggests damaged white brain matter, the brain's signal cables, may be responsible.

Initially a test cohort of 10 patients with MS and 10 patients with non-MS white brain matter lesions were scanned.

Not exact matches

(Females have more white matter, the tissue that connects different parts of the brain while men have more grey matter, which handles information processing.)

Writing in the journal Neuron, the scientists found that reading increased the quality of white matter, the brain tissue that carries signals between areas of gray matter, where information is processed.

The center of the cord is gray matter — essentially an extension of the brain, like a tail — that is sheathed in fibrous white matter, with long, thin nerve fibers called axons shooting out at intervals to wire every part of the body.

The researchers then used brain imaging to measure the functionality of peoples» white matter and had them take a series of cognitive tests designed to measure how sharp they were.

Why, as the white radiance comes through the dome, with all sorts of staining and distortion imprinted on it by the glass, or as the air now comes through my glottis determined and limited in its force and quality of its vibrations by the peculiarities of those vocal chords which form its gate of egress and shape it into my personal voice, even so the genuine matter of reality, the life of souls as it is in its fullness, will break through our several brains into this world in all sorts of restricted forms, and with all the imperfections and queernesses that characterize our finite individualities here below.

I can only assume this is because the man died of a massive brain freeze moments after finishing, and that the White Sox wanted to distance themselves from this tragedy, or could not legally speak on the matter lest it be used against them in court.

Harvard Medical School researchers are exploring a possible link between soccer and damage to the brain's «white matter.»

A study shows, for the first time, how these functional impairments arise: Social isolation during early life prevents the cells that make up the brain's white matter from maturing and producing the right amount of myelin, the fatty «insulation» on nerve fibers that helps them transmit long - distance messages within the brain.

Using DTI imaging technique, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013 study [16] significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with changes in the white matter.

Perhaps most concerning, four of the Purdue studies found that damage to the brain from RHI persisted after the football season was over, as did a 2014 study by Bazarian and his URMC colleagues, [23] which found changes in brain white matter in a small group of college football players which persisted six months after the season was over.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on the brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication.

Indeed, babies fed higher levels of breast milk show higher plasma concentration levels of DHA and AA in the brain cortex, cerebral grey and white matter, as well as a higher IQ up to 15 years of age compared to babies fed formula not containing LCPUFA.

Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on the underlying brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication.

This included differences in the structure of the brain's white matter — the fibre tracts that connect different parts of the brain and allow them to communicate with one another.

A White House official made light of Arizona Sen. John McCain's battle with brain cancer during an internal meeting, saying his opinion on the president's pick tp lead the CIA «doesn't matter (because) he's dying anyway.»

BOSTON — Conflicting results on whether brain stimulation helps or hinders memory may be explained by the electrodes» precise location: whether they're tickling white matter or gray matter.

Compared to the brains of people without bipolar disorder, the researchers found that the MRI signal was elevated in the cerebral white matter and the cerebellar region of patients affected by bipolar disorder.

The scanner, quiet enough for a baby to sleep inside, relies on a new brain - imaging technique called diffusion MRI, which maps long - distance white matter connections in the brain by tracking the movement of water.

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory tests.

New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory...

In particular, the study, published Jan. 6 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, revealed differences in the white matter of patients» brains and in the cerebellum, an area of the brain not previously linked with the disorder.

As another crucial part of the new study on Internet addiction, the research team zeroed in on tissue deep in the brain called white matter, which links together its various regions.

WHITE MAGIC Targeting parts of the brain's white matter, the tissue that connects different brain regions (shown), may be key to whether stimulating the brain with electricity will work as a treatment for memory problems and other WHITE MAGIC Targeting parts of the brain's white matter, the tissue that connects different brain regions (shown), may be key to whether stimulating the brain with electricity will work as a treatment for memory problems and other white matter, the tissue that connects different brain regions (shown), may be key to whether stimulating the brain with electricity will work as a treatment for memory problems and other ills.

Writing in Nature Neuroscience, David Rowitch at the University of California, San Francisco, and his colleagues point the way AXIN2 was expressed in infants with white - matter brain injuries.

While there has been a lot of research on hypertension - related brain changes in the grey matter, Carnevale proposed that a look into the brain's white matter could tell if high blood pressure was having an effect even earlier than what is known.

When Jan Scholz and his colleagues at the University of Oxford looked at brain scans of new jugglers they found that the 24 young men and women had grown more white matter after six weeks of juggling training.

Studies have also found damage in the white matter of the brain, which connects these regions.

Patients showing gadolinium in the vitreous chamber at the later timepoint tended to be of older age, have a history of hypertension, and have more bright spots on their brain scans, called white matter hyperintensities, that are associated with brain aging and decreased cognitive function.

Furthermore, brain imaging data for these very elderly animals shows a slight loss of grey matter (neuronal cell bodies), an effect that the researchers have not yet explained, as well as significantly slowed atrophy of white matter (the neuronal fibers connecting different areas of the brain).

Myelin is a fatty microstructure of the brain's white matter that allows electrical information between brain cells to travel faster.

Since most cognitive processes involve multiple parts of the brain working together, injury to white matter can impair the brain's communication network and may result in cognitive problems.

White matter is the connective wiring that links different areas of the brain.

The brain's white matter is composed of millions of nerve fibers called axons that act like communication cables connecting various regions of the brain.

DTI is an advanced form of MRI that allows researchers to assess microscopic changes in the brain's white matter.

So some of them tend to have well - developed connections between different regions of the brain; that's where the white matter — the cables connecting different processors in the brain.

«These new studies, together with previous studies, show that no matter how you choose subjects or how you define Gulf War illness, you still see structural changes in the brain,» says Roberta White, a neuropsychologist from Boston University's School of Public Health.

As brain structures grow and mature, water diffusion in the gray matter and white matter also changes in recognizable patterns, allowing researchers to track how the tissue is developing, and at what rate, he said.

Tracts of white matter, the fibers linking brain regions, seemed to have declined in the vets.

The neocortex, the convoluted structure that covers much of the mammalian brain like a sheet and controls motor actions, language, and sensing, is more than just a tangle of gray and white matter.

DTI is a non-conventional MRI technique that allows detailed analysis of the white matter tracts that transmit nervous signals through the brain and body.

He published his find of the VOF, a bundle of white - matter fibers near the back of the brain, in 2013 and helped show its involvement in reading.

Leading the work, Dr Nikos Evangelou, said: «We already knew that large research MRI scanners could detect the proportion of lesions with a vein in the brain's white matter, but these scanners are not clinically available.

The bulkier white matter may be what gives men their ability to focus intently on work and tune out distractions, as well as their clear - cut superiority when it comes to spatial reasoning, says Ruben Gur, a psychologist and director of the Brain Behavior Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

The male brain, by contrast, is filled with more white matter, which consists of longer neuron fibers coated with a fatty myelin sheath that communicate with more distant regions of the brain.

People who are overweight have less white matter in their brains, making them look a decade older — an effect that doesn't seem to kick in until middle age

WHITE MATTER CONSCIOUSNESS I found «The Hidden Brain,» by R. Douglas Fields, to be exciting reading.

They have used a clinical MRI scanner of the type all neuroscience centres have to carry out a special type of scan called a T2 - weighted imaging process which is able to reveal lesions in the brain's white matter that are centred on a vein — a known indicator of MS.