Synonyms for gray matter
gray mat·ter

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1. grey matter, gray matter, grey substance, gray substance, substantia griseanoun

   greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons

   Synonyms:
   grey substance, substantia grisea, grey matter, gray substance

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1. • Nervous Tissue

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1. gray matter

   Synonyms:
   substantia grisea NH3

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1. Anya Topiwala:

   The more people drank, the less the volume of their gray matter, brain volume reduces with age and more severely with dementia. Smaller brain volume also predicts worse performance on memory testing.

2. Gowtham Krishnan Murugesan:

   Our study has found a significant decrease in gray matter pruning in the frontal default mode network, which is involved in higher cognitive functions, such as the planning and controlling of social behaviors.

3. Terry Ferebbe Eckmann:

   If you're not a dancer and you start taking some dance classes, you might see really a spike in your gray matter in your brain, you are waking up new neurons and making new connections that you haven't made before.

4. Amy Arnsten:

   These stress-signaling pathways get released and they rapidly impair the higher cognitive functions of the prefrontal cortex that includes things like working memory, with chronic stress, you actually lose gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, in sadly the exact regions that are involved with inhibiting the stress response and those areas that give you insight that you’re needing help.

5. Gianluca Saetta:

   Interestingly, we found that the less gray matter in the right parietal region of the brain, the stronger the desire for amputation, and the more BID individuals acted as if they were amputees.