Myelin during practice
Our brains have two kinds of neural tissue:
- Grey matter processes information in the brain
- White matter is mostly fatty tissue and nerve fibres.
For our bodies to move, information needs to travel from the grey matter down the spinal cord through a chain of nerve fibres (axons) to our muscles. The axons in the white matter are wrapped with myelin. This myelin covering seems to change with practice. Added layers insulate the axons, eventually becoming a superhighway for information connecting your brain to your muscles.
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