Compare and contrast how gray matter and white matterprocess information.

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Compare and contrast how gray matter and white matter
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Neuronal cell bodies, neuropil, glial cells, synapses, and capillaries are included in a major component of the central nervous system is called gray matter. Messages pass between different areas of gray matter within the central nervous system that tissue is known as white matter.

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GRAY MATTER WHITE MATTER
It is darker tissue of the brain and spinal cord consists of nerve cell bodies It is paler tissue of the brain and spinal cord consists of nerve fibers
Composed of cell bodies, axon terminals, dendrites Composed myelinated axons of nerve cells
Highest development identified in the twenties Highest development identified at the middle age of life
Process received information from white matter and sends the instructions back to the effector organs through the white matter Transmit both sensory and motor impulse between the peripheral nervous system and the gray matter
Controls the senses of the body such as hearing, feeling, seeing, speech and memory Controls the involuntary functions of the body such as blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature
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