(Medical Xpress)—A mixed background group of US researchers has found in studying chimpanzee brains, that development of myelin, the fatty sheath that covers the connections between nerve cells ...

Improved muscle control became the basis for the development of complex predatory and escape behaviour, which ultimately drove body size and vertebrate evolution. Myelin-like ensheathments of ...

Research comparing brain development in humans and our closest nonhuman primate relatives, chimpanzees, reveals how quickly myelin in the cerebral cortex grows, shedding light on the evolution of ...

WASHINGTON—Research comparing brain development in humans and our closest nonhuman primate relatives, chimpanzees, reveals how quickly myelin in the cerebral cortex grows, shedding light on the ...

January 20, 2011 — A neuroimaging technique developed by researchers in England provides new insight into normal brain myelination during the first 12 months of life. "We have noninvasively ...

Scientists have assumed that myelination is related to behavior and cognition development, he said. But they still do not understand how exactly these two processes are related. The study examined how ...

"Myelin development does not complete until we're in our late 20s or early 30s, which is kind of fascinating," said Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, the Milan Gambhir Professor in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology ...

We hypothesized that the lack of microglia in the FIRE mice would cause deficient myelination during early development, an idea in line with results from previous studies that used global macrophage ...

Myelination allows electrical signals to travel faster and more efficiently through nerve fibers. Learning to juggle or practicing the piano, for example, gradually increases myelination in the ...

"Myelin development does not complete until we're in our late 20s or early 30s, which is kind of fascinating," said Michelle Monje, MD, Ph.D., the Milan Gambhir Professor in Pediatric Neuro ...

The research suggests the role of CD11c-positive microglia—immune cells in the brain crucial for myelination—during infant brain development. The results, published in Communications Biology ...