Myelin and Skill Acquisition, Treating MS, plus Tuning P2X7
Today’s post was prompted by a recent visit from Monty’s assistant from when he was 3 to 9 years old. She was asking about how to improve fine motor skills in one of her class. In the background Monty, now aged 14 with ASD, was playing the piano and I said just look at those fingers move, no sign of a fine motor skill disorder any more. Source: http://docjana.com/saltatory-conduction/ Slow going without Myelin So how do you improve both fine and gross motor skills and why are deficits so common in autism? It does look like practice makes perfect, but there is actually some science behind this and it might help explain in part why young people with autism are very slow to acquire skills. I should point out that there are multiple contributing factors, not least any kind of excitatory-inhibitory imbalance, but today’s post is about myelin. Normally developing babies gradually start to develop fine and gross motor skills, become toilet trained and learn to talk. The process by ...