"White Matter" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The region of CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM that appears lighter in color than the other type, GRAY MATTER. It mainly consists of MYELINATED NERVE FIBERS and contains few neuronal cell bodies or DENDRITES.
| Descriptor ID |
D066127
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.204 A08.186.854.880
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| Concept/Terms |
White Matter- White Matter
- Matter, White
- Matters, White
- White Matters
Cerebellar White Matter- Cerebellar White Matter
- Cerebellar White Matters
- Matter, Cerebellar White
- Matters, Cerebellar White
- White Matter, Cerebellar
- White Matters, Cerebellar
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 2017 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2018 | 12 | 2 | 14 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2 | 12 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6 | 20 |
| 2021 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| 2022 | 15 | 0 | 15 |
| 2023 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2025 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "White Matter" by people in Profiles.
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Biallelic variants in the noncoding RNA gene RNU4-2 cause a recessive neurodevelopmental syndrome with distinct white matter changes. Nat Genet. 2026 Apr; 58(4):761-773.
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Neuroimaging correlates of cognitive stages in Parkinson's disease: A multimodal MRI study. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2026 05; 264:109343.
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Pubertal Hormones and the Early Adolescent Female Brain: A Multimodality Brain MRI Study. Hum Brain Mapp. 2026 Feb 01; 47(2):e70451.
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Neuroimaging patterns of brain injury in children following near-drowning. BMC Med Imaging. 2025 Dec 23; 25(1):507.
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White matter hyperintensities in the deep cerebral venous territory differ between subcortical and cortical 4-repeat tauopathies. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2026 Feb; 143:108170.
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Structural brain abnormalities and aggression in schizophrenia: mega-analysis of data from 2095 patients and 2861 healthy controls via the ENIGMA consortium. Mol Psychiatry. 2026 Apr; 31(4):2273-2282.
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Cross-species standardised cortico-subcortical tractography. Elife. 2025 Dec 01; 14.
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Apolipoprotein e4 exacerbates white matter impairment in a mouse model of A? amyloidosis by decreasing actively myelinating oligodendrocytes. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Oct; 21(10):e70791.
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Mapping the relationships between structural brain MRI characteristics and sleep electroencephalography patterns: the Multi-Ethnic Study of atherosclerosis. Sleep. 2025 Aug 14; 48(8).
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A whole-brain voxel-based analysis of structural abnormalities in PTSD: An ENIGMA-PGC study. Eur Psychiatry. 2025 Jul 22; 68(1):e97.