Sentence examples for more grey matter from inspiring English sources

The results of the scans show that the mid-posterior hippocampus of all the cabbies was bigger and that they had more grey matter than the bus drivers.

Men have more grey matter (the analytical part of the brain) whereas women have more white matter (the part that connects many streams of information).

When the scientists compared the brains of taxi drivers with those of other drivers, they found the cabbies had more grey matter in the area of the brain associated with memory.

The first results, published in Neurotoxicology late last year, suggest that those who were exposed to manganese had lost significantly more grey matter from the striatum than those who were not.

The researchers at University College London found that users with the greatest number of friends on the social networking site had more grey matter in brain regions linked to social skills.

Using another neuroimaging technique called voxel-based morphometry, they also found that some synaesthetes have increased grey matter volume in this region, and that associators, but not projectors, have more grey matter in the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in memory.

A number of studies have recognized more subtle grey matter and white matter changes in addition to the white matter lesions visible upon gross analysis (Evangelou et al., 2000 b ; Geurts and Barkhof, 2008).

Depending on the distance to the cranium for the brain and the central or peripheral localisation for the brainstem, an attenuation measurement is made of the more attenuating grey matter (observer 2) or less attenuating white matter (observer 1).

With respect to gender, statistical tests showed significantly (F = 7.1, df = 1,8, P = 0.009) more total grey matter in male subjects, but no significant differences regarding the left and right relative thalamus volume.

White matter lesions and brain atrophy are well known in myotonic dystrophy types 1 and 2, but current data stress that the underlying pathology seems to (i) affect white matter much more than grey matter and (ii) affect white matter far beyond circumscribed white matter lesions visible on T2-weighted MRIs.

More widespread grey matter changes have been most prominent in studies of the 10 15% of patients with ALS with frank frontotemporal dementia (Chang et al., 2005), or in ALS genotypes such as C9orf72, which are more consistently associated with marked frontotemporal dementia-spectrum cognitive impairments (Bede et al., 2013 a ).