white Matter.

• Autores: R. Douglas Fields
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 298, Nº. 3, 2008, págs. 54-57
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article reports on recent research that reveals how white matter in the brain, once believed to be a mostly passive tissue, affects its functions and dysfunctions. The article discusses the ways that myelin, the white matter, has been disregarded by scientists in the past and how it develops in the brain from birth to the 20s. The implications of these discoveries for developmental learning and for understanding brain disease are also examined. INSET: WHAT IS WHITE MATTER?.