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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 17: Worms see the light with Michael Nitabach

  • April 21, 2021
  • Tagged as: C. elegans, light sensing, nematode, nervous system, neurology, neuroscience, opsin, vision

Michael Nitabach joins TWiN to discuss the finding that the nematode C. elegans, which do not have eyes, can discriminate between colors to guide foraging decisions and move them away from harmful bacteria that produce a blue-pigment toxin.

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TWiN 16: Neuronal depolarization with Stefano Brigidi

  • March 17, 2021
  • Tagged as: astrocyte, memory, nervous system, neurology, neuron, neuronal depolarization, neuroscience, podcast, transcription factor NPAS4

Stefano joins TWiN to discuss his work on understanding genomic decoding of neuronal depolarization by stimulus-specific transcriptional regulators.

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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 5: Anosmia and COVID-19

  • April 18, 2020
  • Tagged as: anosmia, COVID-19, loss of smell, nasal olfactory epithelium, nervous system, neurobiology, neuroscience, SARS-CoV-2

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 anosmia associated with COVID-19.

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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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TWiN 2: Cells that fire together wire together

  • November 5, 2019
  • Tagged as: AMPA receptor, hippocampus, long term potentiation, memory, nervous system, neuroscience, synapse, synaptic strength, synaptic transmission

The TWiN team explain the basic principles of synaptic transmission, and review a classic paper demonstrating that recycling endosomes are important for modifying synaptic strength, which is involved in information storage and processing.

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