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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

A virtual reconstruction of how the current from the device moves through the body showed the current reaches spinal gray matter in the spinal cord, but does not reach the brain itself.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

It’s the proverbial gray matter, the most evolved part, he explains, the part that makes us human.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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