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. 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.

2. Amy Arnsten:

   One of the most striking( effects) is thinning of the gray matter of an area of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, it helps us to act appropriately. It gives us insight about ourselves and others. It gives us perspective. It allows us to do complex decision-making and to be able to have thoughtful, abstract reasoning rather than concrete or habitual responses.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Phil Lounibos:

   What Oxitec is trying to spin is that it's highly improbable that there will be negative consequences of this foreign DNA entering someone that's bitten by an Oxitec mosquito, i'm on their side, in that consequences are highly unlikely. But to say that there's no genetically modified DNA that might get into a human, that's kind of a gray matter.