Page 10 - Unit 3: Brain Building
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Speeding up brain signals through practice












       Every time we repeat


       something, a coating around


       the trunk of the neuron, called

       the myelin sheath, gets thicker.












       Scientists think that the thicker the coating, the faster messages

       travel to the next neuron.







       That means that the more we repeat something, the easier


       and faster we can do it.




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