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White Matter Changes May Predict ... by Dr. Rubens D. Medical Doctor

White Matter Changes May Predict Cognition IssuesProgression in white matter hypersensitivity may better predict cognitive impairment 15 july 2009 -- The progression of white ... Read on »

White Matter Differences in Autistic Brains by Ginger T. Patient Expert

... brain imaging known as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), researchers in the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered that the so-called white matter in the brains of people with autism has lower structural integrity than in the brains of normal individuals. This provides further evidence that the anatomical di ... Read on »

Changes in White Matter May Predict Dementia Risk by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert

... ging, the Max Millis Fund for Neurological Research, and the Storms Family Fund at the Oregon Community Foundation.Join UsSubscribe to The Alzheimer's Reading Room Changes in White Matter May Predict Dementia Risk Research at Oregon Health & Science University supports the previously held notion that an increased rate of white matter degradation i ... Read on »

White Matter Changes Could Predict Dementia Risk by Susan Berg ... ognitive impairment, or memory problems that are a potential precursor to Alzheimer's disease or another type of dementia. The study found that those who had theread more of White Matter Changes Could Predict Dementia Risk Read on »

More Teen Brain: Less Gray or More White Matter? by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

1 Comment Some teens will take offense to the idea that they are losing their frontal gray matter - and the figure below suggests that white matter in the deep brain structures is actively increasing. What it does mean is that a whole lot is going on in young growing brains. It would also seem to be an ideal ... Read on »

Regional white matter atrophy-based classification of multiple sclerosis in cross-sectional and... by stuart Patient Expert

... he progression of disability in MS, which may depend on the MS type, are not fully understood. The authors aimed to investigate whether the volume in two different regions of white matter of the brain could be used to differentiate amongst different MS subtypes. Based on the results, the authors created an algorithm to classify people with differen ... Read on »

Matters Gray and White by Shauna M. Patient Expert

Generally speaking we consider the gray matter of our brain to be the "thinking" part and the white matter the stuff that connects the gray matter. So one would think that since MS is mostly a disease of white matter, our cognitive functioning would remain untouched ex ... Read on »

the white house garden and why it matters by Amy .. Patient Expert

LOVE this. I think all moms can relate. Read on »

MR spectroscopic imaging of glutathione in the white and gray matter at 7 T with an application to... by stuart Patient Expert

... ht become a tool to predict future outcome in people with MS. The authors aimed to quantify the glutathione with MR spectroscopy at a very high field strength in the grey and white matter of the brain, in a group of healthy controls and a group of people with MS. They found that glutathione levels were significantly lower in the group of people wit ... Read on »

A Matter of Matter by Dr. Mary Kearns, PhD Doctor of Philosophy

... gly, the most abnormal brain in our database belonged to the Principal Investigator of the study who was a really nice, very sociable, very smart man. It seemed that gray and white matter don't necessarily matter.I thought of this today when I came across a headline that caught my eye: Tiny brain, normal life which appeared on PhysOrg.comApparently ... Read on »