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

It revealed that individuals who reported watching sports more frequently exhibited greater gray matter volume in regions associated with reward circuits, suggesting that regular sports viewing may gradually induce changes in brain structures.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2024

"A person's gray matter thickness might be analyzed as a percentile of the thickness of healthy people for that age."

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

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