This Week in Neuroscience
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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 phenotypes commonly observed in patients, such as immune activation, metabolomic changes, and reduced skin innervation.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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- Gut microbiome promotes pain in fibromyalgia (Neuron)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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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 protecting private inner speech.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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- Keeping private inner speech from brain-computer interfaces (Cell)
- Mind-reading brain implant with password protection (Nature)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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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 Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim CheungSubscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS
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- Neural computations underlying contextual processing in humans (Cell Rep)
- Previous experience shapes perception (Front Human Neurosci)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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TWiN 66: Neuroscience of overeating
TWiN reviews the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of overeating and obesity, the role of the hypothalamus and reward systems in controlling food intake and energy balance, and how dysregulation in these systems leads to overeating.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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- Neurobiology of overeating (Neuron)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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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 dementia, and nasal administration of air pollution in mice led to brain atrophy and impaired cognition and motor function.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung
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- MicrobeTV Discord Server
- Links between air pollution and dementias (Science)
- Letter from Susan Schneider Williams Widow of Robin Williams (Lewy Body Dementia UK)
- Awakenings (Wikipedia)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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