How to pronounce “myelin” in English

If you remove the myelin now, the signal can only propagate at about 1 meter per second, and it's usually scattered and diffused.

When you've myelinated neurons, you basically are allowing them to be coordinated and efficiently communicating with each other 3,000 times more.

Because skill building is based on myelin growth.

gets them to increase their connections to each other, increase even their myelin, which is like a sheath that increases the speed of interconnection

And if you look at the language areas of the brain, there's extra insulation called myelination, which allows them to operate faster.

So when you watch people do the Olympics, those Olympic athletes have been practicing something for so many hours, they've laid down myelin.

The second thing that's part of remodeling besides the first part, pruning, is that you start to lay down myelin in a big way.