This myelination, as it is called, can greatly increase the speed of signals transmitted between neurons (known as action potentials). Indeed, the evolution of myelin allowed vertebrates to ...

A mouse model of autism and postmortem brains of autistic individuals showed a lack of mature oligodendrocytes and less myelination than controls. Lisa Winter became social media editor for The ...

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"If we didn't have retroviruses sticking their sequences into the vertebrate genome, then myelination wouldn't have happened, ...

Cognito Therapeutics, a neurotechnology company advancing disease-modifying therapies to treat CNS diseases, today announced ...