What does WM stand for?

White Matter

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Samples in periodicals archive:

White matter is the connective tissue that links the different areas of your brain.

Your teenage brain: adolescence can be a turbulent time. Find out why ...

Byline: ANI Washington, Oct 27 (ANI): A new study, conducted by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King's College London, suggests that abnormalities in the white matter of the brain appear to influence the development of schizophrenia.

Faulty 'wiring' in the brain turns schizophrenia on

In fact changes in white matter seen after six weeks occurred precisely in those parts of the brain that are involved in these tasks.

Matter in hand: Jugglers have rewired brains

In Canavan disease the white matter deteriorates because affected children have a deficiency of the enzyme aspartoacylase, which leads to the accumulation of a chemical, called N-acetyl-aspartic acid (NAA), in the brain.

Canavan Disease ? Causes and Symptoms of Canavan Disease

DALLAS -- Several years after a pregnancy complicated by eclampsia, significantly more women demonstrate subcortical cerebral white matter lesions on MRI, compared with women with a nor-motensive pregnancy.

Eclampsia's neurologic damage may be permanent

THE EFFECT OF CI THERAPY ON THE WHITE MATTER PORTIONS OF THE BRAIN: A DTI STUDY.

Behavioral and Social Sciences posters abstract

White matter consists of nerve fibers which are responsible for transmitting communication signals both internally within the CNS and between the CNS and the nerves supplying the rest of the body.

The Signs of Multiple Sclerosis

Jung and Haier, looking at the network of gray and white matter that comprises human intelligence, concluded there is significant consistency in brain structure and function related to intelligence.

Researchers develop intelligence model