This Week in Neuroscience

Jason Shepherd joins TWiN to discuss the work in his laboratory showing that Arc protein plays a role in intercellular transmission of tau protein, which becomes hyperphosphorylated and misfolded, a major histopathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Tim Cheung
Guest: Melissa Cooper
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Arc and Tau intercellular transmission (Cell)
Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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Melissa Cooper joins TWiN to discuss her discovery that astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Tim Cheung
Guest: Melissa Cooper
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Astrocytes form plastic networks (Nature)
Newly found brain network (Nature)
Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN unpacks a striking paradox, that the very cell divisions that built the human brain's most advanced layers also put them at greatest risk, and how a dedicated DNA repair pathway saves them.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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Expansion of outer cortical CUX2 neurons requires adaptations for DNA repair (Nature)
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Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN explains the finding that vaginal microbiota transfer ameliorates cesarean-associated neurodevelopmental deficits in mice via synthesis of a sphingosine derivative on neonatal skin.
.Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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Vaginal microbiota transfer ameliorates cesarean-associated neurodevelopmental deficits (Cell Host Microbe)
Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN explains the finding that activation of intracellular, not plasma membrane, serotonin 2A receptors is responsible for the plasticity-promoting and antidepressant-like properties of psychedelic compounds.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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Psychedelics rewire the brain from within (Science)
Psychedelics elicit their effects by Gi signaling (Nature)
History of LSD (Wikipedia)
Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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