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Hi,
I feel sorry for your family that you all have to go through all this.
What does white matter control?
White matter controls gross motor and fine motor activity of body. The white matter is the tissue through which messages pass between different areas of gray matter within the nervous system. Using a computer network as an analogy, the gray matter can be thought of as the actual computers themselves, whereas the white matter represents the network cables connecting the computers together.
Most of his routine daily activity he would need help.
Hope it helps.
Bye.
Thank u for ur reply, he has in the last week been taken of sedation an is fully awake and alert, he can move his eyes, arms and legs, he is also speaking, and knows who i am, also saying my name, does this mean he will be ok????
Hi,
If you observe exactly this is the difference between grey matter and white matter lesion. What is he showing is integrity of Grey matter which is normal for him? Grey matter structures (cortex, deep nuclei) process information originating in the sensory organs or in other grey matter regions. This information is conveyed via specialized nerve cell extensions, which form the bulk of the cerebral, cerebellar, and spinal white matter.
Bye.
I feel sorry for your family that you all have to go through all this.
What does white matter control?
White matter controls gross motor and fine motor activity of body. The white matter is the tissue through which messages pass between different areas of gray matter within the nervous system. Using a computer network as an analogy, the gray matter can be thought of as the actual computers themselves, whereas the white matter represents the network cables connecting the computers together.
Most of his routine daily activity he would need help.
Hope it helps.
Bye.
If you observe exactly this is the difference between grey matter and white matter lesion. What is he showing is integrity of Grey matter which is normal for him? Grey matter structures (cortex, deep nuclei) process information originating in the sensory organs or in other grey matter regions. This information is conveyed via specialized nerve cell extensions, which form the bulk of the cerebral, cerebellar, and spinal white matter.
Bye.