gray matter
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AFM attacks motor neurons in the spinal cord’s gray matter, which controls movement.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2024
Could the MRI gray matter biomarker be used widely someday?
From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2024
The animals were, essentially, processing what just happened, allowing their tiny nuggets of gray matter to drift along and make sense of these curious humans’ images.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024
This includes the gray matter, which helps with processing information, and the white matter, which connects different brain regions, as well as the hippocampus, important for memory.
From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023
“Our gray matter is still, like, ten percent mashed potatoes.”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
