white matter Archive — Page 1 of 1

Stylized glowing human brain surrounded by bright white-blue electrical lightning against a dark blue background.
October 16, 2023

VUMC scientists record powerful signal in the brain’s white matter

Vanderbilt researchers report that when people who are having their brains scanned by fMRI perform a task, like wiggling their fingers, certain signals increase in white matter throughout the brain, which has long been thought to play a lesser role the more the brain’s more energetic gray matter.

By Bill Snyder
Stylized axial brain scan illustration in blue, white, and gray, overlaid with radiology-style grid markers, orientation labels, measurement scales, and timestamp-like text.
June 6, 2022

Tracking the aging brain

The macrostructure — volume, area and length — of the brain’s white matter is useful for studying aging and could be a sensitive marker for neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Vanderbilt researchers reported.

By Joshua Baker
Multiple blue-toned sagittal MRI scans of the human brain arranged together, with white technical labels overlaid.
January 27, 2022

White matter and psychosis

The microstructure of white matter in the brain could be an important risk marker for psychosis, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered.

By Emily Stembridge
Multiple blue-toned sagittal MRI scans of the human brain arranged together, with white technical labels overlaid.
November 11, 2021

The power of white matter

Using a novel analysis of fMRI data, Vanderbilt researchers discovered intriguing patterns of signals in the brain’s white matter, the “conduit” for relaying signals between different brain regions.

By Bill Snyder