To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall. 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients: Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
White matter develops and changes across our life span in a pattern strikingly different from gray matter. We do not complete the formation of brain myelin until many years after birth, perhaps past 20 years of age; by contrast, we have our full complement of brain neurons at birth.
Gray matter serves as the message processing centers of the brain and is in charge of the brainâs conscious thought. While gray matter is located on the outside of the brain and the inside of the spinal cord, white matter follows the opposite pattern. It is located within the brain and outside of the spinal cord. In humans, distribution of white and gray matter varies between the sexes.