Myelin is essential for fast signal transmission in the nervous system.

Biological Importance

Myelin damage is linked to neurological disorders, like multiple sclerosis.

Health Connection

Myelin is used more in medical or scientific discussions than in everyday language.

Technical Term

 and your own speed of thought changes throughout your lifetime. In particular, as you reach old age, the myelin sheath covering your axons wears down, and other neuronal structures degrade. Back to the dastardly experiment. Arrows shot from recurve bows fly, on average,

How fast is the speed of...

 affects the brain spinal cord and optic nerves in ms the nerves lose their sheath myelin crucial for proper ner function we still don't know why this damage of the myelin occurs but we do know that the nerves with MS contain

The poetic side of a...

 It's amazing and it's occurred because there are stem cells in the brain, even, which can enable new myelin, new insulation, to be laid down over the damaged nerves. And this observation is important for two reasons.