Voorbeelden van white matter

• The white matter is made up of special cells that carry messages between the cells in the gray matter. 

• The cerebellar white matter volume showed an unexpected and striking abnormality.

• Periventricular brain structures and white matter tracts are particularly vulnerable to damage.

• To date, only two such structures have been identified: the parieto-temporo-occipital cortical junction and the ventromesial frontal white matter.

• Premature delivery can interrupt this process and perturb the structure of the white matter.

• Increased microglial activation and protein nitration in white matter of the aging monkey.

• There did not appear to be significant spread of current into underlying white matter.

• In pathological terms, the authors described a striking encephalitis with an affinity for white matter areas including internal and external capsules and cerebellar peduncles.