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- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 15: Microbiome and neurodevelopment with Helen Vuong
Helen joins TWiN to discuss her work on understanding how the maternal microbiome modulates fetal neurodevelopment in mice. Hosts: Ori Lieberman, Andres…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 14: Reducing Alzheimer-like pathology in mice
Ori, Jason, and Vincent discuss the use of antibodies to neutralize amyloid-β seeds before their deposition becomes detectable in transgenic mice, and the…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 13: mRNAs for long-term memory
Ori, Jason, Erin, and Vincent dissect a study that utilizes single-cell RNA sequencing to reveal the genes that underlie remote memory storage in the medial…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 12: A gene for short-term memory
Ori, Jason, and Vincent reveal identification of an orphan receptor that modifies short-term memory in mice, and a mouse model of COVID-19 that includes…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 11: A dollar per neuron
Maria joins TWiN to explain how single-cell transcriptomics is being used to reveal the evolution of the brain, at a cost of about $1 per neuron. Hosts: Ori…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 10: Remodeling synapses with a cytokine
TWiN explains how a cytokine produced by neurons activates microglia which modify the extracellular matrix and remodel synapses, leading to memory…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 9: COVID-19 neurology with Genna Waldman
Columbia University Chief Neurology Resident Genna Waldman joins TWiN to explains how her department prepared for COVID-19, and the neurological symptoms…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 8: Replacing lost neurons
TWiN explains how neurological disease in mice can be repaired by using CRISPR/Cas to knock down levels of a single cell protein, which converts astrocytes to…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 7: Stress, the good, bad and beautiful
The TWiN team reveals how the nervous system controls hair graying in mice subjected to stress, and adaptive immune responses. Hosts: Ori Lieberman, Jason…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 6: Neural control of sexual behavior
Nirao Shah joins TWiN to discuss the work of his laboratory on how our brains generate social interactions that differ between the sexes. Hosts: Ori Lieberman…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 5: Anosmia and COVID-19
Bob Datta joins TWiN to reveal the findings of his laboratory on expression of SARS-CoV-2 entry genes in the olfactory epithelium and the implications for…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 4: It's a trap!
Jason visits the TWiN studio to explain Arc Capsid Bearing Any RNAs (ACBARs), virus-like capsids that transfer genetic information between neurons. Hosts…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 3: Gambling on dopamine
Erin and the TWiN team explain how dopamine neurons encode reward probability and uncertainty, and their roles in attention-based learning and risk-taking such…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 2: Cells that fire together wire together
The TWiN team explain the basic principles of synaptic transmission, and review a classic paper demonstrating that recycling endosomes are important for…
- This Week in Neuroscience
TWiN 1: The ultimate challenge
The synaptics launch the first episode of TWiN by revealing their training, research interests, and goals for the podcast. Hosts: Ori Lieberman, Erin Calipari…