{"id":8087,"date":"2019-05-22T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/gray_matter\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:53","slug":"gray_matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/gray_matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grayish nervous tissue in regions of the brain in which are found&nbsp;aggregations of unmyelinated neurons as well as fibers, and making up about 40% of the brain. &nbsp;This portion of the brain is divided into:&nbsp;1. cortical gray matter, consisting of unmyelinated neurons, found at the surface of the brain, and 2. sub-cortical gray matter situated in the deep central regions of brain (caudate, putamen, globus pallidus and thalamus).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"basal_ganglia_-anatomy-\">Basal ganglia (anatomy)<\/a>, <a href=\"cell_migration\">Cell migration<\/a>, <a href=\"central_nervous_system_-cns-\">Central nervous system (CNS)<\/a>, <a href=\"cerebral_cortex_-or_pallium-\">Cerebral cortex (or pallium)<\/a>, <a href=\"diffusion_anisotropy\">Diffusion anisotropy<\/a>, <a href=\"diffusion_tensor_imaging\">Diffusion tensor imaging<\/a>, Direct corticospinal connections (or tracts), <a href=\"dorsal_horn\">Dorsal horn<\/a>, <a href=\"gray_matter\">Gray matter<\/a>, <a href=\"mesencephalon\">Mesencephalon<\/a>, <a href=\"metabolism\">Metabolism<\/a>, <a href=\"monosynaptic_and_polysynaptic_reflexes\">Monosynaptic and polysynaptic reflexes<\/a>, <a href=\"myelin\">Myelin<\/a>, <a href=\"oculomotor_nucleus\">Oculomotor nucleus<\/a>, <a href=\"oligodendrocytes\">Oligodendrocytes<\/a>, <a href=\"reflex\">Reflex<\/a>, <a href=\"thalamus\">Thalamus<\/a>, <a href=\"white_matter\">White matter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grayish nervous tissue in regions of the brain in which are found&nbsp;aggregations of unmyelinated neurons as well as fibers, and making up about 40% of the brain. &nbsp;This portion of the brain is divided into:&nbsp;1. cortical gray matter, consisting of unmyelinated neurons, found at the surface of the brain, and 2. sub-cortical gray matter situated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/gray_matter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gray matter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}