How to Use white matter in a Sentence
white matter
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The study found that white matter was affected in adults, but not teenagers, who drank.
—Josh Magness, sacbee, 14 Feb. 2018
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Eden explains that the image illustrates the white matter pathways in the brain.
—Lisa Wood Shapiro, WIRED, 18 June 2018
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Two of these sheets, highly folded, along with their hundreds of millions of wires—the white matter—are crammed into the skull.
—Christof Koch, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
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Both gray and white matter are important for a healthy and functioning brain.
—Josh Magness, sacbee, 14 Feb. 2018
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After many specialist visits and tests, an MRI found damage to the nerve fibers, or white matter, in her brain.
—Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 6 June 2018
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Returning to Earth helped the gray matter mostly bounce back but seemed to cause shrinkage in white matter, which connects parts of the brain.
—National Geographic, 12 June 2019
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Meanwhile, the scanner is taking slices — noisy, virtual slices — of my gray and white matter.
—Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
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When a wild rabbit is in danger, more white matter is needed for faster reflexes and for learning what to be afraid of.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Science | AAAS, 25 June 2018
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While some of the people in the juggling group got better at the skill than others, everyone in the group showed changes in their white matter as a result of learning the new skill.
—Didi Gluck, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2023
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Higher screen use was linked to lower amounts of white matter, the fibrous tissue that connects different parts of the brain.
—Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2020
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Somehow, the brain has been able to reconfigure itself to carry out the same task despite its changes in white matter.
—Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2019
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When the brain is scanned, small white spots, called white matter hyperintensities, show the extent of the damage.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 May 2023
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That’s not paradoxical; the greater amount of white matter doesn’t mean habitual liars are more inclined to stick to rules and morals.
—Paul Tullis, Town & Country, 30 Apr. 2023
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Their brains showed fluid shifts—our brains are about 80 percent water—and an increase of gray and white matter in the brain, reports David Nield for Science Alert.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
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However, some white matter is still visible as the pale grey layer that borders the holes.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2020
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Although only two of the 38 players received a concussion, more than two-thirds of them showed changes to the integrity of the white matter of their midbrains.
—Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 7 Aug. 2019
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Scientists are scouring this rainbow array for faulty wiring in the neural connections in the white matter, which takes up half the brain.
—Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2014
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Study author Xin Zhang speculated at the time that the pollution was damaging white matter in the brain.
—National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
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This growth in connectivity presents itself as white matter in the brain, which comes from a fatty substance called myelin.
—Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 8 Sep. 2017
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The study found the greatest amount of white matter damage in people who use oral steroids regularly over long periods of time.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
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Underneath lies the white matter, which stretches in bundles of fiber between regions of gray matter and carries messages all over the brain.
—Grace Huckins, Wired, 17 Aug. 2020
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Overall, the researchers found that the 40 patients had, on average, slightly smaller volumes of total white matter in their brains compared with that of the healthy groups.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 24 July 2019
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Scientists found a dramatic reduction in gray and white matter in their brains.
—Amy Chillag, CNN, 4 Aug. 2019
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The 65-year-old man suffered several strokes, including four in a five-day stretch, as the white matter in his brain inexplicably aged decades in a matter of weeks.
—Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
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Maybe lying changes their brains over time, or maybe the extra white matter predisposes them to lying more easily.
—Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 23 Jan. 2018
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For the study, researchers wanted to see the relationship between alcohol and marijuana use and the volume of gray and white matter in a person’s brain.
—Josh Magness, sacbee, 14 Feb. 2018
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First, the overall volume of the astronauts’ brains increased (particularly the white matter), as did the volume of their cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the liquid that bathes our brains and spinal cords.
—Doug Adler, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2020
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The study, published this month in Frontiers in Neural Circuits, is the first to detail and investigate structural changes in white matter after space travel.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
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Doctors believe his death may have been caused by a disorder of the white matter in his central nervous system, but the case remains a medical mystery.
—Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
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While some researchers have detected structural white matter changes in the brain, Gore said the method is not yet legitimate or reliable in a clinical setting.
—Melissa Chan, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2024
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