Handbook on White Matter de Timothy B Westland

Handbook on White Matter: Structure, Function & Changes

Timothy B Westland

Robert N Calton

White matter is one of the three main solid components of the central nervous system. White matter tissue of the freshly cut brain appears white to the naked eye because of being composed largely of lipid. The other two components of the brain are grey matter and substantia nigra. This handbook presents the latest research in the field.

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Preface; Interhemispheric Connectivity: The Evolution and Nature of the Corpus Callosum; White Matter Lesions: From Present to Future; White Matter Lesions and Aging in HIV Infection: Implications for Development of Cognitive Decline and Dementia; White Matter Changes in Critical Illness and Delirium; White Matter Involvement in Neuromuscular Disorders; White Matter Hyperintensities in Psychiatric Disorders and their Association with Suicide Risk; A Quantitative Study of the Pathological Changes in the Cortical White Matter in Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD); Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy; Remyelination Failure in Multiple Sclerosis and Vulnerability of Oligodendrocytes to Repeated Insults; Endoscopic Anatomy of the Thecal Sac Using a Flexible Steerable Endoscope; Brain Tissue Segmentation Based on Multi-Channel Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data; Three-Dimensional Microstuctural Analysis of Human Brain Tissue by Using Synchrotron Radiation Microtomographs; Origin and Function of Amoeboid Microglia in the Periventricular White Matter in the Developing Brain; Diffusion Tensor Imaging Is More Sensitive than Conventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Demonstrating White Matter Abnormalities in Susac's Syndrome; Organisation of the Node of Ranvier in Myelinated Central Axons; Organizing Principles of Projections of the Long Descending Reticulospinal Pathways and their Target's Spinal Commissural Neurons: With Special Reference to the Locomotor Function; The Dimensions of the Sacral Spinal Canal in Thecaloscopy: A Morphometric MRI Study; Index.