Sunday, October 19, 2008

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Will now be referred to as amyelinated moments :)
Posted by Eluzhun at 9:44 AM
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  1. jumcoOctober 19, 2008 at 11:14 AM

    What a fascinating article. It appears from the study design that they already had some inclination myelin was involved in some way. Any idea what gave them that idea?

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  2. EluzhunOctober 19, 2008 at 4:57 PM

    Yeah, there are many demyelinating diseases out there that have been studied for a while, but from my understanding no one has ever recorded such a correlation as this with regards to reaction time. I mean, a neurodegenerative disease will knock out a lot of functions, myelin is a major player, but not the whole story. I've never seen a study that focused on just the effects of myelin content on synaptic transmission, at least not in this way. Very cool stuff

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