white matter

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So using brain imaging, she focused on the white matter, or nerve tissue, of the brain.
因此，觀察大腦成像時，她將注意力放在大腦的白色物質即神經組織上。
She reports in her recent study a marked difference in the white matter of the binge drinkers.
在近期的研究，她報告說，發現了酗酒人員的大腦白色物質中有顯著差異。
"White matter is very important for the relay of information between brain cells; and we know that it is continuing to develop during adolescence, " Tapert says.
“白色物質對於信息在腦細胞間的傳遞是非常重要的；我們知道，整個青春期內它還在不斷發育，”泰普特說。

"We see that men have greater volume loss, the men have greater changes in their white matter,"
The test of this then is to have blind auditions where people do their auditions behind a screen so you can't tell whether they're man or a woman, or for that matter, white or black or Asian or whatever.
然後他們進行閉幕試縯以作測試,縯奏的人被一塊屏風擋住,看不出縯奏的是男人還是女人，或者白人還是黑人，亞洲人還是其他人。
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The White House has promised a thorough investigation of the matter, and steps to guard against a repeat of the tragedy.

They then analyzed the gray and white matter of their brains using high-tech MRIs.
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the pale tissue containing nerve fibres (= structures like threads) found in the brain and spinal cord

the whitish tissue of the brain and spinal cord, consisting mainly of myelinated nerve fibres (Technical name substantia alba)&rarrcompare grey matter