But patients with schizophrenia lose a lot more gray matter.

但是精神分裂症患者会失去更多的灰质。

But why? Does flexing the old gray matter somehow buffer against age-related intellectual impairment?

但是原因何呢？收缩老灰质会缓解年龄引起的智力损坏吗？

Sometimes we call your brain your gray matter.

有时把你的大脑称为灰质。

It's a deep area of gray matter inside the brain, and it actually acts as a gate as to what is grabbing our attention from moment to moment to moment.

这是大脑内部灰质的深层区域，它实际上充当了一扇大门，让那些时时刻刻吸引着注意力的东西进的大脑。

Now, if you look at the cross-section of the spinal cord, the white matter is on the outside and the gray matter is on the inside, and overall it looks like a butterfly.

现来看看脊髓的横截面，白质外面，灰质里面，总体看上去像一只蝴蝶。

Other studies, he noted, have shown that air pollution has a great effect on the white matter in the brain, but not the gray matter.

他指出，其他研究表明，空气污染对大脑中白质有极大的影响，但对灰质没有太大影响。

In American English, guilt or sadness is often expressed by the symbol of ashes – the gray matter left over from a fire.

美式英语中，内疚或悲伤通常用灰烬的象征来表达——灰烬是火后留下的灰质。

It's made up of the wrinkled, outer layer of " gray matter" called the cerebral cortex, and the inner squishy layer of " white matter" beneath it.

它由皱巴巴的外层“灰质”和它下面柔软的内层“白质”组成。

Their brains had less gray matter and their temporal lobes developed more slowly than the other children. The findings were reported in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

与其他孩子相比，这些学生大脑中的灰质更少，他的颞叶发育得更慢。这一发现发表期刊《儿科学》上。

And here's something else: research published in the scientific journal " Nature" for just people who exercise have increased gray matter in the brain.

科学杂志《自然》发表的一篇文章显示锻炼的人大脑中的灰质会增加。

Adopting a new language leads to a higher concentration of gray matter in both the hippocampus and the frontal lobe.

采用一种新的语言会导致海马体和额叶的灰质浓度增加。

Disassemble this motorcycle victim's every part, as if so gray a matter never wore a flashing ruby dress.

将这位摩托车（事故）受害者的全部解剖，就像一种从未身着华服的灰暗物件。

Gray matter consists of cells and connections that facilitate communication at short ranges, creating dense, information-processing hubs.

灰质包含细胞和脑连接，小范围内进行信息传递，产生密的信息处理中心。

And we know that gray matter is more responsible for people's math skills.

知道，灰质主要负责人的数学技能。

While perhaps only losing 4 percent of his gray matter and that could help explain his recovery because while grey matter doesn't grow back well after injury.

只有 4% 的灰质损失或许可以解释他的康复，因为灰质受伤后未能很好的恢复。

Imaging studies show that white and gray matter volumes undergo drastic changes during adolescence, and continuing through your twenties.

影像研究表明白质量和灰质量会青春期发生剧烈变化，并将持续到 20 多岁。

More gray matter allows for more complex cognitive developments and more development means a higher IQ.

灰质越多，认知发展就越复杂，发展越多，智商就越高。

First, there's a reduction in gray matter.

第一，大脑灰质的减少。

Everyone loses gray matter between childhood and adulthood as part of a normal process called synaptic pruning, where some connections are lost, but the ones you keep get stronger.

每个人童年和成年之间都会失去灰质，这是一种称为突触修剪的正常过程的一部分，这个过程中，一些连接会丢失，但保留下来的连接会增强。

In our brains, we have two main tissues: one is white matter. The other is gray matter.

一种是白质。另外一种是灰质。