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TWiN 36: Unbearable neurologists

  • January 3, 2023
  • Tagged as: Alzheimer's disease, brain, nervous system, neurobiology, neurology, neuron, neuroscience

TWiN answers listener questions about Alzheimer’s disease, glaucoma and the microbiota, Dravet’s Syndrome, schizophrenia, brain development, and chips implanted in the human brain.

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TWiN 35: Neuromodulation in treatment-resistant depression

  • December 6, 2022
  • Tagged as: brain, close-loop neuromodulation, depression, major depressive disorder, nervous system, neurobiology, neurology, neuron, neuroscience, psychiatric disorder

Jason and Tim review the use of an implanted chronic deep brain sensing and stimulation device to carry out biomarker-driven closed-loop therapy that resulted in a rapid and sustained improvement in depression. 

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TWiN 26: Immunological memory in the brain

  • January 26, 2022
  • Tagged as: brain, immune respose, memory, neurobiology, neuroscience

TWiN reviews evidence in mice that brain neurons encode and retrieve specific immune responses.

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TWiN 12: A gene for short-term memory

  • November 11, 2020
  • Tagged as: brain, collaborative cross mice, diversity outbred mice, nerve, neurology, neuroscience, orphan receptor, short term memory, spinal cord, thalamus, working 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 anosmia or loss of smell.

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TWiN 7: Stress, the good, bad and beautiful

  • June 13, 2020
  • Tagged as: antibodies, B cells, brain, germinal center, gray hair, immune responses, nerves, nervous system, neuroscience, spinal cord, spleen, stress, T cells

The TWiN team reveals how the nervous system controls hair graying in mice subjected to stress, and adaptive immune responses.

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TWiN 6: Neural control of sexual behavior

  • May 20, 2020
  • Tagged as: brain, gender, neurobiology, neuroscience, 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.

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