[ExI] Smarter mice

[James Clement]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> How is that supposed to work? I can imagine that a different glial
> architecture in a mouse has some effect, but in humans we would just get
> the same glial architecture.
>
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> Hi Anders, that's of course a good question. Both researchers (husband and
wife team) were talking about their interest in increasing human myelin
layers, which they analogized to laying down intra-brain
information-superhighways. For example, "By acting as an electrical
insulator, myelin greatly speeds up action potential conduction." See,
Increased Conduction Velocity as a Result of Myelination, Purves D,
Augustine GJ, Fitzpatrick D, et al., editors. Sunderland (MA): Sinauer
Associates; 2001. At the time I met Dr Goldman, he was head of Neurology
for the clinic, which sees thousands of cases a year from all over the
world. He's now Chief of the Medical Center's Stem Cell and Gene Therapy
Dept. Goldman briefed me in 2010 on a stem cell process he was working on
which would work to enhance anyone's myelination. I'd like to visit them
again and find out what they haven't told the world yet... Cheers, James
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