I even missed this since it was prior to my event. Ask your doctor how you can use this in your recovery.
Abstract
Myelination of the brain
continues through childhood into adolescence and early adulthood--the
question is, Why? Two new articles provide intriguing evidence that
myelination may be an underappreciated mechanism of activity-dependent
nervous system plasticity: one study reported increased myelination
associated with extensive piano playing, another indicated that rats
have increased myelination of the corpus callosum when raised in
environments providing increased social interaction and cognitive
stimulation. These articles make it clear that activity-dependent
effects on myelination cannot be considered strictly a developmental
event. They raise the question of whether myelination is an overlooked
mechanism of activity-dependent plasticity, extending in humans until at
least age 30. It has been argued that regulating the speed of
conduction across long fiber tracts would have a major influence on
synaptic response, by coordinating the timing of afferent input to
maximize temporal summation. The increase in synaptic amplitude could be
as large as neurotransmitter-based mechanisms of plasticity, such as
LTP. These new findings raise a larger question: How did the
oligodendrocytes know they were practicing the piano or that their
environment was socially complex?
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