Brain's white matter -- More 'talkative' than once thought

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Brain's white matter -- More 'talkative' than once thought
         


Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered to their surprise that nerves in the mammalian brain's white matter do more than just ferry information between different brain regions, but in fact process information the way gray matter cells do....
      

http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D6773
         

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Re: Brain's white matter -- More 'talkative' than once thought
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2007, 12:14:16 pm »

This article led to another interesting article.
How when an area of the brain is damaged or distroyed by stroke or other means, that the brain realizes this and will transfer or begin that activity in another area of the brain.

The brain can rapidly reorganise to recover from damage 

http://www.physorg.com/news97504911.html

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Re: Brain's white matter -- More 'talkative' than once thought
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2007, 12:50:27 pm »
Glad to here that all those late nights when I destroyed numerous brain cells will somehow be reborn.  ;D

 


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