<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>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. <br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:2px;border-left-color:blue;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">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</p></div><h1 id="_NBK10921_" style="font-size:1.3846em;margin:1em 0px 0.5em;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif"><br></h1></div></div></div>