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TWiN 8: Replacing lost neurons

  • July 7, 2020
  • Tagged as: astrocytes, CRISPR, dopamine, gene editing, glial cells, neurology, neurons, neuroscience, neurotransmitter

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 neurons.

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TWiN 3: Gambling on dopamine

  • December 18, 2019
  • Tagged as: addiction, dopamine, dopamine neurons, gambling, nervous system, neuron, neuroscience, Pavlovian procedure, reward probability, risky behavior, uncertainty

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 as gambling and addiction.

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