TWiN 71: Psychedelics rewire the brain from within
TWiN explains the finding that activation of intracellular, not plasma membrane, serotonin 2A receptors is responsible for the plasticity-pr...
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This Week in Neuroscience
This Week in Neuroscience is a podcast about the nervous system.
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Listen to This Week in Neuroscience, a Science & Medicine podcast by Vincent Racaniello. Stream 70 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 70 episodesTWiN 70: Unraveling the axon wrap
TWiN explains the role of a ubiquitin ligase component in regulating the sheathing of multiple axons by Schwann cells. Hosts: Vincent Racani...
TWiN 69: Fibromyalgia and the microbiome
TWiN explains a study which showed that transplanting gut microbiota from women with fibromyalgia into mice induces pain, as well as phenoty...
TWiN 68: Firewall for the brain
TWiN explores the use of speech brain-computer interfaces to restore communication to people with paralysis, and reveals strategies for prot...
TWiN 67: Interpreting situation-specific facial signals
TWiN explores how theta phase shifts mediate contextual perception of facial expressions during everyday social interactions. Hosts: Vincent...
TWiN 66: Neuroscience of overeating
TWiN reviews the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of overeating and obesity, the role of the hypothalamus and reward systems in control...
TWiN 65: Air pollutants promote dementia
TWiN explains epidemiological data showing that exposure to air pollution was associated with an increased risk of developing Lewy body deme...
TWiN 64: How the brain decides what we see
TWiN explains how visual neurons show functional flexibility by selectively responding to subsets of inputs representing attended objects wh...
TWiN 63: Microbiome-targeted neurotherapy
TWiN discusses research showing that Lactobacillus acidophilus promotes cognitive function recovery after cerebral ischemia, by regulating m...
TWiN 62: Memories of bad food
TWiN explains research which identifies the regions of the brain that register a long-lasting aversion to potentially poisonous food even wi...
TWiN 61: Blood to the brain
TWiN reveals that proteins travel from the blood to the brain where they are taken up by microglia, revealing a new mode of communication be...
TWiN 60: You get the gist of it?
TWiN discusses experiments which show that high-fidelity memories that lose their precision with time depends on reorganization of hippocamp...
TWiN 59: AI co-scientist
Tim explains AI co-scientist, a tool released by Google, which it hopes to help scientists generate hypotheses and research proposals, and t...
TWiN 58: Tongue-dragging rescue behavior
TWiN explains a study showing that when a mouse is confronted with an unconscious conspecific, it engages in behavior including tongue-dragg...
TWiN 57: Repetitive injury, herpes, and Alzheimer's
TWiN discusses a study showing that repetitive injury reactivates HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model and induces phenotypes associated with...
TWiN 56: Astrocytes help neurons remember
TWiN explains a study showing that while groups of neurons, form the basis for memory, astrocytes are key components of the adaptive reponse...
TWiN 55: A brain circuit for day/night balance
TWiN explains the identification of a brain circuit and periodic branch-specific neurotransmitter deployment that regulates organismal adapt...
TWiN 54: How pregnancy transforms the brain
TWiN explores how pregnancy leads to modifications in brain structure and function that may prepare the mother for parenting. Hosts: Vincent...
TWiN 53: Slowing time by cooling the brain
Joseph Paton and Felipe Rodrigues join TWiN to explain how they used temperature manipulation to alter the speed of neuronal dynamics in the...
TWiN 52: Probiotic improves social behavior in children with ASD
Mauro Costa-Mattioli returns to TWiN to discuss the results of a placebo controlled, double blind clinical trial of a probiotic which improv...
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