This Week in Neuroscience

• TWiN 63: Microbiome-targeted neurotherapy

  TWiN discusses research showing that Lactobacillus acidophilus promotes cognitive function recovery after cerebral ischemia, by regulating microglial peroxisomal function.

  Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung

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  Links for this episode

  • MicrobeTV Discord Server
  • Arc is pdb molecule of the month (PDB)
  • Probiotics after stroke (Cell Host Microbe)
  • Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

  Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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• 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 with meal to illness delays of several days.

  Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, and Tim Cheung

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  Links for this episode

  • MicrobeTV Discord Server
  • A neural mechanism for post-ingestion feedback (Nature)
  • Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

  Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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• 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 between the brain and the periphery.

  Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Tim Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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  Links for this episode

  • MicrobeTV Discord Server
  • Circulatory proteins taken up by brain microglia (bioRxiv)
  • Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

  Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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• 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 hippocampal circuitry.

  Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Tim Cheung

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  Links for this episode

  • MicrobeTV Discord Server
  • Loss of precision memory and the hippocampus (Nature)
  • Changes in hippocampi of cab drivers (PNAS)
  • Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

  Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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• 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 to accelerate the speed of scientific and biomedical discoveries.

  Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Tim Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

  Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS

  Links for this episode

  • MicrobeTV Discord Server
  • AI cracks superbug problem (BBC)
  • Accelerating scientific breakthroughs (Google Research)
  • Towards an AI co-scientist (arXiv)
  • Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

  Music is by Ronald Jenkees

  Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv