gray matter

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Both were strongly associated with gray matter loss, faster brain aging, cognitive decline, and a higher risk of neurological disease.

From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 2026

Several studies have identified decreases in gray matter volume in key regions such as the frontal and temporal cortices and the hippocampus, which play major roles in memory and decision-making.

From Science Daily • Oct. 21, 2025

Neuroscientists typically ascribe consciousness and abstract thought to the cerebral cortex, which evolved later in human evolution and wraps around the brain's outer layer in folded gray matter.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

AFM attacks motor neurons in the spinal cord’s gray matter, which controls movement.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2024

And the three pounds of gray matter he carried around in his skull served him well in the classroom.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown