The researchers then took neurons from the excised brain matter and placed them in a blood-rich culture medium.
研究人员随后从切除的脑组织中提取神经元，并将其置于富含血液的培养基中。
It's a chunk of brain matter "roughly equivalent to a tennis ball in size," McAuliffe says.
“这是一大块的脑浆大致相当于一个网球的大小。”麦考利夫说。
Comparing the two groups of blind individuals, the researchers found that loss and gain of brain matter depended heavily on when the blindness occurred.
被试者分为了三组：5岁以前失明组，14岁以后失明组，和正常对照组。通过对比这两组失明者，研究人员发现脑容量的失去与获取同失明的发生时间确实有很大相关性。
Indeed, scientists are discovering that the brain can be influenced by large Numbers of stimuli: computer games such as Tetris have also been found to increase the amount of brain matter.
的确，科学家们发现，大脑可能被大量刺激所影响：比如计算机游戏“俄罗斯方块”就可以增加脑物质的数量。
The findings show that long term exposure to greenness is positively associated with white and grey matter volumes in several parts of the brain.
研究结果表明，长期暴露在绿色环境中与大脑的白质和灰质体积呈正相关。
Naysayers might suggest that the brain is irrelevant, that thinking in an original, even revolutionary, way is more a matter of personality than brain function.
怀疑论者认为人脑与此是不相关的，他们认为以一种新颖的甚至是革命性的方式进行思考，是人的性格而非大脑功能所致。
They are likely to come with larger volumes of white and grey matter in certain areas of the brain.
他们很可能在大脑的某些区域拥有大量的白质和灰质。
Studies have shown that air pollution has a great effect on the white matter in the brain, but not the grey matter.
研究表明，空气污染对大脑中的白质有很大影响，但对灰质没有影响。
So using brain imaging, she focused on the white matter, or nerve tissue, of the brain.
因此，观察大脑成像时，她将注意力放在大脑的白色物质即神经组织上。
And poor quality of the brain's white matter indicates poor, inefficient communication between brain cells.
而大脑白色物质内的不健康意味着脑细胞之间交流的欠缺、不良。
It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand you. His brain is receiving messages.
他能否理解不重要，他的小脑袋已经接受这些信息了。
When the children underwent an MRI scan, the researchers found that a region of the brain called the 'ventral striatum' had more grey matter in the frequent video gamers.
对孩子们进行核磁共振扫描发现，频繁游戏组的孩子脑部一个叫腹侧纹状体的结构拥有更多的灰质。
Oddly, though, the main connection between the two hemispheres of the brain, which is known as the corpus callosum and is made of white matter, is proportionately smaller in men than women.
让人不解的是，连接大脑两个半球的白质——也叫胼胝体——在男性中成比例地小于女性。
For the first time, brain imaging has linked insomnia to a reduction in vital grey matter.
失眠第一次与大脑灰质层的减少联系了起来。
It does not really matter, the point is that the synergistic actions of reading and writing generate the yin and yang—the pull and push—and get the brain juices flowing in a more ”excited” manner.
如何做并不重要，本质上是要让大脑在这样读和写两个方向的信息流向过程中获得灵感和活力。
Giuilio Tononi of the University of Wisconsin-Madison argues that consciousness is the outcome of how complex matter, including the brain, integrates information.
威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校(University of Wisconsin - Madison)的GiuilioTononi指出：意识乃是复杂事物——包括大脑本身——如何与信息整合的产物。
The psychologist Steven Pinker once likened dreams to computer screen savers, saying that it perhaps "doesn't really matter what the content is as long as certain parts of the brain are active."
心理学家史蒂芬·平克（StevenPinker）曾经将梦比拟为电脑的屏幕保护程序，他说，或许“梦中的内容并不完全是那些在大脑中活跃的部分。”
Sleep prunes back the grey matter so that, come the morning, the brain is once again economical to run.
睡眠对于灰质[1]的剪裁使大脑在第二天早上再次轻装上阵。
"White matter is very important for the relay of information between brain cells; and we know that it is continuing to develop during adolescence," Tapert says.
“白色物质对于信息在脑细胞间的传递是非常重要的；我们知道，整个青春期内它还在不断发育，”泰普特说。
Remember that no matter what your age or your occupation; your brain needs to be constantly challenged to be at its peak in terms of performance.
记住，无论你多大或你的职业是什么；你的大脑需要时常受到挑战，使之在效率方面达到其巅峰状态。
My brain has this amazing talent wherein no matter what I do, it can point out all the ways in which I have failed.
我的头脑有这种惊人的天赋：无论我想要去做什么事，它总是让我看到自己失败的样子。
No matter how hard to you try, if your brain isn’t performing well, you won’t be as productive as you should be.
不管你多么努力的去尝试，如果你的大脑不在状态，你的工作效率不会有多高。
Gray matter represents information processing centers in the brain, and white matter represents the networking of-or connections between-these processing centers.
脑灰质代表大脑里的信息处理中心，脑白质代表这些处理中心间的协同与联系。
Gray matter represents information processing centers in the brain, and white matter links the centers together.
灰质包含了大脑中的信息处理中心而白质将这些中心连接起来。
No matter how frustrated you get, NEVER, EVER shake a crying baby-just a few seconds of jostling can cause serious brain damage.
无论你多么的气馁，千万千万不要晃动正在啼哭的宝宝，因为仅仅几秒时间的震动也可能损伤她的大脑。
It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand you.His brain is receiving messages.
他能否理解不重要，他的小脑袋已经接受这些信息了。
Some anthropologists note that brain shrinkage is not very surprising since the stronger and larger we are, the more grey matter we need to control this larger mass.
一些人类学家注意到大脑体积减小其实并不令人惊讶，在我们变得更强更大之后，我们需要更多的灰质来控制躯体这个大麻烦。
Even though a woman's brain is 10% smaller than a man's brain, it has less grey matter and more white matter.
虽然女性大脑比男人的要小10%，其拥有的白质却比灰质多。
This is the white matter across a whole brain. In this picture, the colours don't indicate connection speed -they merely allow the connections to be distinguished from each other.
图中是贯穿整个大脑的白质，颜色并不代表连接的速度——他们仅仅是对相邻的连接加以区别。
No matter what your age, mental exercise has a global, positive effect on the brain. So, here are 22 ways to boost your brain power.
无论你的年龄、思维训练对你的大脑有什么综合的、积极的影响，这里有22条途径来提高你的脑力？
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