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gray matter

noun as in the brain

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He also worked on research in 2015 showing that people who are frequent lucid dreamers have more gray matter located in the frontal polar cortices.

My earliest memoryis throwing clumps of gray matter intothe Mediterranean then waiting forsomething solid to come back.

No issue on the mind would be complete without a chance to gaze upon the gray matter itself, and there are brains aplenty in our haunting photo essay documenting a library of malformed specimens.

The mother-daughter relationship may be especially influential, with a neuroimaging study from Yale University showing extra gray matter in the brains of moms who reported having warm relationships with their own mothers.

In these voids, MRI brain imaging shows a collaborative patchwork of gray matter called the default mode network takes control.

“In general, gray matter shrinkage may have no impact,” says Dr. Nicole Prause of University of California, Los Angeles.

Smaller volumes of gray matter may not themselves even be cause for concern.

The co-founders of Gray Matter, the pharmaceutical company he invented and was then elbowed out of.

The demented legislation that passed recently emerged from the mysterious gray matter of Mike Lee, the Utah senator.

That three-pound lump of gray matter contains 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses, or connections.

It is composed of a mass of gray matter surrounded by a covering of white matter.

If the ego be but the passing shadow of the material brain, at the disintegration of the gray matter what will become of us?

Acts principally by reducing excitability of gray matter of brain.

And that shows that you have more gray matter than some of your colleagues.

If I had any gray matter I could probably work out the facts.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gray matter, such as: bean, brains, cerebrum, noggin, noodle, and pate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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