The signals that drive many of the brain and body's most essential functions—consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate and motion—course through bundles of "white matter" fibers in the brainstem, ...

In a new study published recently in the journal Nature, researchers at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Health have created the first growth charts for white matter in the brain over a human ...

Diffusion and nucleation on metal surfaces govern a spectrum of processes from thin-film growth to nanoparticle formation and catalysis. Surface diffusion involves the thermally activated migration of ...

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exploits the random motion of water molecules to probe the microstructural architecture of the living brain. By sensitising the MRI signal to molecular ...