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