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.
The white matter of the brain is responsible for transmitting information. It consists of fibers that establish long-distance connections between different regions of the brain. The white matter normally thickens as a child grows older and the brain matures. As a group, children with ADHD have a 3 percent to 4 percent smaller brain volume in all regions -- including the frontal lobes, temporal gray matter, caudate nucleus (one of the basal ganglia), and cerebellum.