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What is white matter composed of?

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Cheese, I think. Yeah. Cheese. You can get it at the supermarket. The call it "head cheese". Delicious.

Actually, its mostly a mass of dendritic structures of super-densely packed nerve endings that branch ever more as your brain grows. This causes the ends to kind of grow like a tree ... which is why brains get increasingly wrinkly over time.

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The white matter is white because of the presence of myelin.

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fiber tracts

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