How to Use white matter in a Sentence

white matter

noun

• The study found that white matter was affected in adults, but not teenagers, who drank.
  — Josh Magness, sacbee, 14 Feb. 2018
• Eden explains that the image illustrates the white matter pathways in the brain.
  — Lisa Wood Shapiro, WIRED, 18 June 2018
• 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
• Both gray and white matter are important for a healthy and functioning brain.
  — Josh Magness, sacbee, 14 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Meanwhile, the scanner is taking slices — noisy, virtual slices — of my gray and white matter.
  — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When the brain is scanned, small white spots, called white matter hyperintensities, show the extent of the damage.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• However, some white matter is still visible as the pale grey layer that borders the holes.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Study author Xin Zhang speculated at the time that the pollution was damaging white matter in the brain.
  — National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Scientists found a dramatic reduction in gray and white matter in their brains.
  — Amy Chillag, CNN, 4 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Learning a new skill can impact a person’s white matter—the bundles of nerve fibers that connect different parts of the brain and help with focusing and learning function.
  — Didi Gluck, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The increase in white matter suggests that brain cells are more interconnected, DeCarli said.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024