Gray matter and white matter rely on steady, robust circulation to nourish them with oxygen-rich blood. Lack of blood flow, even for a short time, can damage or destroy neurons and axons.

New research from the University of Nottingham School of Medicine shows COVID aged our brains faster, even if you didn’t get ...

Alzheimer’s is a grey matter disease, and white matter has a central role in how the disease develops and progresses. The central nervous system of the brain is made up of two kinds of tissue ...

Grey matter is fundamental to our minds – indeed, it’s so important that the term is often used to refer the brain as a whole. But it turns out that white matter may be where our thinking happens.

More specifically, gray matter refers to regions throughout the brain where nerve cells – known as neurons – are concentrated. The region considered most important for cognition is the cerebral cortex ...

Dec. 21, 2023 — Signs of injury to the brain's white matter called white matter hyperintensities, as seen on brain scans, may be tied more strongly to vascular risk factors, brain shrinkage, and ...

The Covid pandemic sped up the ageing process of people’s brains and was detrimental to the function of the mind, a study has found.

COVID-19 is leaving all kinds of legacies on our health, both on our bodies and our brains. In a study published July 22 in ...

Fig. 3 Total brain gray and white matter volumes in subjects with autism, schizophrenia and healthy controls. This graph is based on main effects of diagnostic group in three-group ANCOVA.

Baby Brain: How Pregnancy Changes Your Gray and White Matter Revealed. Published Sep 16, 2024 at 11:03 AM EDT Updated Sep 17, ... The team also noticed a prominent increase in white matter, ...