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Publisher |: American Society for Microbiology

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Neuroscience,; Science & Medicine

Categories Via RSS |: Life Sciences,; Natural Sciences,; Science

A podcast about the nervous system.

Premiere Date |: 2019-10-26
Frequency |: Periodic
Explicit |: No

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38 Available Episodes (38 Total) / Average duration: 01:09:21

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38 Available Episodes (38 Total)Average duration: 01:09:21

Mar 27, 2023

01:04:57

TWiN explains the finding that immunity to commensal bacteria promotes sensory neuron regeneration via the cytokine interleukin-17A.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Ori Lieberman, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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Immunity to the microbiota promotes sensory neuron regeneration (Cell)
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Jan 23, 2023

01:15:05

TWiN reviews the field of microgial research, which has advanced in recent decades but is constrained by nomenclature that is necessary but often implies specific functions.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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Microglia states and nomenclature (Nature)
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Jan 03, 2023

01:29:33

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.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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Letters read on TWiN 36
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Dec 06, 2022

01:09:13

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.

Hosts: Jason Shepherd and Timothy Cheung

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Closed-loop neuromodulation for depression (Nat Med)
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Sep 30, 2022

01:09:17

TWiN explains how central nervous system resident macrophages known as microglia coordinate cellular interactions during spinal cord repair in mice.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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Microglia coordinate spinal cord repair (Nat Commun)
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Aug 31, 2022

00:58:11

TWiN describes how neurotropic viruses leave the brain via meningeal lymphatic vessels located dorsally and basally beneath the skull.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Ori Lieberman, Jason Shepherd, and Timothy Cheung

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Meningeal lymph vessels and viral exit from brain (Nature Neuroscience)
Clearing mouse brain video (YouTube)
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Aug 02, 2022

00:59:47

TWiN reviews how, in a mouse stroke model, recovery of movement is associated with the remaining cortex and the striatum coordinating their activity together.

Hosts: Ori Lieberman, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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Recovery after stroke in mice (Cell Rep)
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Jun 29, 2022

01:11:52

TWiN explains the observation that in mice, the HIV-1 co-receptor CCR5 closes the temporal window for linking different memories.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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CCR5 and 022-04783-1.epdf?sharing_token=7b9mDAhMCLUtC4fb_pBsJtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PKdTyWMnPUGJn3L46Us5OKXek2mAPCyPTTmviF6VFKqvP_1f_car4I4cvmIm_XJ8Z5xrSu_9ETjJCXS97Lv7Vm58sWW7s4xxNH_Trb4L0JYYrcCEaI4DPBkMlhask1MkE%3D"> memory linking (Nature)
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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May 24, 2022

01:09:52

TWiN describes experiments demonstrating that gut injection of alpha-synuclein fibrils in mice converts endogenous alpha-synuclein to a pathologic form that spreads to the brain and leads to features of Parkinson’s disease.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Ori Lieberman, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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