Myelination:
A) occurs before neurogenesis.
B) is completed in the frontal cortex first.
C) does not begin until after birth.
D) slows neural transmission.

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Myelination, the process of forming a myelin sheath around the axons of neurons to insulate them and speed up neural transmission, does not begin until after birth, with significant myelination occurring in the first few years of life and continuing into adolescence and early adulthood.