This Week in Neuroscience
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Episodes 75
TWiN 76: Light Switches Go To Stockholm
TWiN explains the science behind the 2026 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Tim Cheung Subscribe (free): Apple …
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TWiN explains the science behind the 2026 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Tim CheungSubscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS
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- Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine 2026 (Nobel)
- Driving fast-spiking cells (Nature)
- Manipulating synthetic optogenetic odors (Science)
- Microbial rhodopsin in mammalian neurons (Nat Methods)
- Deisseroth lectures on optogenetics (iBiology)
- Cardiogenic control of affective behavioral state (Nature)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 75: Arc, tau, and Alzheimer's
Jason Shepherd joins TWiN to discuss the work in his laboratory showing that Arc protein plays a role in intercellular transmission of tau protein, which becomes hyperphosphorylated and misfolded, a major …
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Jason Shepherd joins TWiN to discuss the work in his laboratory showing that Arc protein plays a role in intercellular transmission of tau protein, which becomes hyperphosphorylated and misfolded, a major histopathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Tim CheungGuest: Melissa Cooper
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- Arc and Tau intercellular transmission (Cell)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 74: Plastic astrocyte networks with Melissa Cooper
Melissa Cooper joins TWiN to discuss her discovery that astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Tim Cheung Guest: Melissa Cooper Subscribe (free): Apple …
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Melissa Cooper joins TWiN to discuss her discovery that astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Tim CheungGuest: Melissa Cooper
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- Astrocytes form plastic networks (Nature)
- Newly found brain network (Nature)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 73: The price of a bigger brain
TWiN unpacks a striking paradox, that the very cell divisions that built the human brain's most advanced layers also put them at greatest risk, and how a dedicated DNA repair pathway saves them. Hosts: Vincent …
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TWiN unpacks a striking paradox, that the very cell divisions that built the human brain's most advanced layers also put them at greatest risk, and how a dedicated DNA repair pathway saves them.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim CheungSubscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS
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- Expansion of outer cortical CUX2 neurons requires adaptations for DNA repair (Nature)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 72: What cesarean babies miss
TWiN explains the finding that vaginal microbiota transfer ameliorates cesarean-associated neurodevelopmental deficits in mice via synthesis of a sphingosine derivative on neonatal skin. .Hosts: Vincent …
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TWiN explains the finding that vaginal microbiota transfer ameliorates cesarean-associated neurodevelopmental deficits in mice via synthesis of a sphingosine derivative on neonatal skin.
.Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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- Vaginal microbiota transfer ameliorates cesarean-associated neurodevelopmental deficits (Cell Host Microbe)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 71: Psychedelics rewire the brain from within
TWiN explains the finding that activation of intracellular, not plasma membrane, serotonin 2A receptors is responsible for the plasticity-promoting and antidepressant-like properties of psychedelic compounds …
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TWiN explains the finding that activation of intracellular, not plasma membrane, serotonin 2A receptors is responsible for the plasticity-promoting and antidepressant-like properties of psychedelic compounds.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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- Psychedelics rewire the brain from within (Science)
- Psychedelics elicit their effects by Gi signaling (Nature)
- History of LSD (Wikipedia)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 70: Unraveling the axon wrap
TWiN explains the role of a ubiquitin ligase component in regulating the sheathing of multiple axons by Schwann cells. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung Subscribe (free): Apple …
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TWiN explains the role of a ubiquitin ligase component in regulating the sheathing of multiple axons by Schwann cells.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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- Gut microbiome promotes pain in fibromyalgia (Neuron)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 69: Fibromyalgia and the microbiome
TWiN explains a study which showed that transplanting gut microbiota from women with fibromyalgia into mice induces pain, as well as phenotypes commonly observed in patients, such as immune activation …
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TWiN explains a study which showed that transplanting gut microbiota from women with fibromyalgia into mice induces pain, as well as phenotypes commonly observed in patients, such as immune activation, metabolomic changes, and reduced skin innervation.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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- Gut microbiome promotes pain in fibromyalgia (Neuron)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 68: Firewall for the brain
TWiN explores the use of speech brain-computer interfaces to restore communication to people with paralysis, and reveals strategies for protecting private inner speech. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne …
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TWiN explores the use of speech brain-computer interfaces to restore communication to people with paralysis, and reveals strategies for protecting private inner speech.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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- Keeping private inner speech from brain-computer interfaces (Cell)
- Mind-reading brain implant with password protection (Nature)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 67: Interpreting situation-specific facial signals
TWiN explores how theta phase shifts mediate contextual perception of facial expressions during everyday social interactions. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung Subscribe (free): Apple …
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TWiN explores how theta phase shifts mediate contextual perception of facial expressions during everyday social interactions.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim CheungSubscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS
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- Neural computations underlying contextual processing in humans (Cell Rep)
- Previous experience shapes perception (Front Human Neurosci)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 66: Neuroscience of overeating
TWiN reviews the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of overeating and obesity, the role of the hypothalamus and reward systems in controlling food intake and energy balance, and how dysregulation in these …
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TWiN reviews the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of overeating and obesity, the role of the hypothalamus and reward systems in controlling food intake and energy balance, and how dysregulation in these systems leads to overeating.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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- Neurobiology of overeating (Neuron)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 65: Air pollutants promote dementia
TWiN explains epidemiological data showing that exposure to air pollution was associated with an increased risk of developing Lewy body dementia, and nasal administration of air pollution in mice led to brain …
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TWiN explains epidemiological data showing that exposure to air pollution was associated with an increased risk of developing Lewy body dementia, and nasal administration of air pollution in mice led to brain atrophy and impaired cognition and motor function.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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- Links between air pollution and dementias (Science)
- Letter from Susan Schneider Williams Widow of Robin Williams (Lewy Body Dementia UK)
- Awakenings (Wikipedia)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 64: How the brain decides what we see
TWiN explains how visual neurons show functional flexibility by selectively responding to subsets of inputs representing attended objects while ignoring those conveying information about irrelevant objects …
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TWiN explains how visual neurons show functional flexibility by selectively responding to subsets of inputs representing attended objects while ignoring those conveying information about irrelevant objects.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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- Gamma-band synchronization in visual cortex (Nat Comm)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 63: Microbiome-targeted neurotherapy
TWiN discusses research showing that Lactobacillus acidophilus promotes cognitive function recovery after cerebral ischemia, by regulating microglial peroxisomal function. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne …
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TWiN discusses research showing that Lactobacillus acidophilus promotes cognitive function recovery after cerebral ischemia, by regulating microglial peroxisomal function.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim CheungSubscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS
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- Arc is pdb molecule of the month (PDB)
- Probiotics after stroke (Cell Host Microbe)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 62: Memories of bad food
TWiN explains research which identifies the regions of the brain that register a long-lasting aversion to potentially poisonous food even with meal to illness delays of several days. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello …
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TWiN explains research which identifies the regions of the brain that register a long-lasting aversion to potentially poisonous food even with meal to illness delays of several days.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, and Tim Cheung
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- A neural mechanism for post-ingestion feedback (Nature)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 61: Blood to the brain
TWiN reveals that proteins travel from the blood to the brain where they are taken up by microglia, revealing a new mode of communication between the brain and the periphery. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Tim …
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TWiN reveals that proteins travel from the blood to the brain where they are taken up by microglia, revealing a new mode of communication between the brain and the periphery.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Tim Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison
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- Circulatory proteins taken up by brain microglia (bioRxiv)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 60: You get the gist of it?
TWiN discusses experiments which show that high-fidelity memories that lose their precision with time depends on reorganization of hippocampal circuitry. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Tim …
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TWiN discusses experiments which show that high-fidelity memories that lose their precision with time depends on reorganization of hippocampal circuitry.
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- Loss of precision memory and the hippocampus (Nature)
- Changes in hippocampi of cab drivers (PNAS)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 59: AI co-scientist
Tim explains AI co-scientist, a tool released by Google, which it hopes to help scientists generate hypotheses and research proposals, and to accelerate the speed of scientific and biomedical discoveries …
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Tim explains AI co-scientist, a tool released by Google, which it hopes to help scientists generate hypotheses and research proposals, and to accelerate the speed of scientific and biomedical discoveries.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Tim Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison
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- AI cracks superbug problem (BBC)
- Accelerating scientific breakthroughs (Google Research)
- Towards an AI co-scientist (arXiv)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 58: Tongue-dragging rescue behavior
TWiN explains a study showing that when a mouse is confronted with an unconscious conspecific, it engages in behavior including tongue-dragging to resuscitate the animal via a tongue-brain connection. Hosts …
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TWiN explains a study showing that when a mouse is confronted with an unconscious conspecific, it engages in behavior including tongue-dragging to resuscitate the animal via a tongue-brain connection.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Tim Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison
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- Tongue-dragging in mice (Sci Adv)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 57: Repetitive injury, herpes, and Alzheimer's
TWiN discusses a study showing that repetitive injury reactivates HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model and induces phenotypes associated with Alzheimer's disease. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Tim Cheung …
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TWiN discusses a study showing that repetitive injury reactivates HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model and induces phenotypes associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Tim Cheung
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- Repetitive injury, herpes, and Alzheimers (Sci Signal)
- The tau of herpesvirus (TWiV 1187)
- Fishing for viruses in senile (TWiV 519)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 56: Astrocytes help neurons remember
TWiN explains a study showing that while groups of neurons, form the basis for memory, astrocytes are key components of the adaptive reponse to learning experiences, and regulate the flow of information during …
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TWiN explains a study showing that while groups of neurons, form the basis for memory, astrocytes are key components of the adaptive reponse to learning experiences, and regulate the flow of information during circuit plasticity and memory recall.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Tim Cheung
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- Astrocytes and memory (Nature)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 55: A brain circuit for day/night balance
TWiN explains the identification of a brain circuit and periodic branch-specific neurotransmitter deployment that regulates organismal adaptation to photoperiod change. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason …
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TWiN explains the identification of a brain circuit and periodic branch-specific neurotransmitter deployment that regulates organismal adaptation to photoperiod change.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Tim Cheung
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- Brain circuit for photoperiod adaptation (Nature)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 54: How pregnancy transforms the brain
TWiN explores how pregnancy leads to modifications in brain structure and function that may prepare the mother for parenting. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Vivianne Morrison Subscribe (free) …
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TWiN explores how pregnancy leads to modifications in brain structure and function that may prepare the mother for parenting.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Vivianne Morrison
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- Pregnancy transforms the brain (Nature)
- Hormone-mediated neural remodeling during pregnancy (Science)
- Effects of pregnancy on brain activity (Nature Comm)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 53: Slowing time by cooling the brain
Joseph Paton and Felipe Rodrigues join TWiN to explain how they used temperature manipulation to alter the speed of neuronal dynamics in the dorsal striatum of rats, a manipulation that selectively slowed down …
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Joseph Paton and Felipe Rodrigues join TWiN to explain how they used temperature manipulation to alter the speed of neuronal dynamics in the dorsal striatum of rats, a manipulation that selectively slowed down or sped up time perception, illuminating the mechanisms of time-based decisions.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison
Guest: Joseph J. Paton and Felipe Rodrigues
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- Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision (Nat Neurosci)
- Hot times for the dorsal striatum (Nat Neurosci)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 52: Probiotic improves social behavior in children with ASD
Mauro Costa-Mattioli returns to TWiN to discuss the results of a placebo controlled, double blind clinical trial of a probiotic which improved social behavior but not autism severity in children with ASD …
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Mauro Costa-Mattioli returns to TWiN to discuss the results of a placebo controlled, double blind clinical trial of a probiotic which improved social behavior but not autism severity in children with ASD.
Hosts: Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison
Guest: Mauro Costa-Mattioli
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- Probiotics for autism spectrum disorder (Cell Host Microbe)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 51: Sensory processing dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders
TWiN reviews altered somatosensory reactivity, which is frequently observed among individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and in mouse models the developmental timing of aberrant touch processing can …
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TWiN reviews altered somatosensory reactivity, which is frequently observed among individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and in mouse models the developmental timing of aberrant touch processing can predict the manifestation of ASD-associated behaviors in mouse models.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison
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- Mouse models of autism spectrum disorder (Nature Neuroscience)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 50: Neurological sequelae after COVID-19
TWiN reviews experiments which show that SARS-CoV-2 triggers the up-regulation of synaptic components and perturbs local electrical field potential in cerebral organoids, organotypic culture of human brain …
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TWiN reviews experiments which show that SARS-CoV-2 triggers the up-regulation of synaptic components and perturbs local electrical field potential in cerebral organoids, organotypic culture of human brain explants and post-mortem brain samples from individuals with COVID-19.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison
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- SARS-CoV-2 perturbs synaptic homeostasis (Nature Micro)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 49: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest mouse of all?
TWiN welcomes mice to the elite club of 'self-aware' animals, with a study demonstrating a mirror-induced self-directed behavior in mice resembling visual self-recognition. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Timothy …
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TWiN welcomes mice to the elite club of 'self-aware' animals, with a study demonstrating a mirror-induced self-directed behavior in mice resembling visual self-recognition.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison
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- Mice are self-aware (Neuron)
- Mirror self-recognition in mice (Neuron)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 48: Traumatic brain injury and retroviruses
TWiN describes a study that reveals activation of endogenous retroviruses in oligodenroglia from patients with traumatic brain injury. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Timothy Cheung Subscribe …
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TWiN describes a study that reveals activation of endogenous retroviruses in oligodenroglia from patients with traumatic brain injury.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Timothy Cheung
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- Activation of endogenous retroviruses in TBI oligodendroglia (Cell Rep)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 47: Walking after spinal cord injury
TWiN explains an amazing study of a man who was paralyzed after a spinal cord injury and regained the ability to walk after implantation of a brain-spinal cord interface. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason …
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TWiN explains an amazing study of a man who was paralyzed after a spinal cord injury and regained the ability to walk after implantation of a brain-spinal cord interface.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Timothy Cheung
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- Walking naturally after spinal cord injury (Nature)
- The paralyzed rat that walked (YouTube)
- Mike the headless chicken (Wikipedia)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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