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.
MainPlaceHolder. White matter in the brain is made of axons, which are like wires that carry messages between neurons and supporting cells. White matter sits underneath the brainâs cortex, or grey matter. In general, white matter damage (WMD) is caused by a lack of oxygen to that part of the brain. Periventricular leucomalacia (PVL) is a condition in which decreased blood flow to brain tissue causes it to soften up and eventually die.