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This Week in Neuroscience

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.

This Week in Neuroscience

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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