gray matter
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Interestingly, some findings suggest that gray matter volume may partially recover after menopause, hinting at the brain's ability to adapt through neuroplasticity.
From Science Daily • Oct. 21, 2025
AFM attacks motor neurons in the spinal cord’s gray matter, which controls movement.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 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 took my altitude-impaired gray matter a minute or two to comprehend that the object was a human body.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
