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The brain’s readiness to learn anything quickly, efficiently, and enjoyably appears to be predicated partially on the density of synapse formation in the relevant systems and partially on a process called myelination. Myelin is an insulating fatty substance that develops in the brain from before birth until age twenty or thirty. It gradually coats message-sending axons to help them transmit messages more quickly. Before a system is myelinated, messages are likely to travel erratically and may get lost in the shuffle of competing connections. Likewise, in some brain diseases such as multiple sclerosis, myelin is destroyed, interrupting transmission of messages over motor neurons that control movement.

Quote ID: 00779

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Jane Healy

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Your Child’s Growing Mind

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