This Week in Neuroscience

par Vincent Racaniello · Science

This Week in Neuroscience

A podcast about the nervous system.

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  • TWiN 75: Arc, tau, and Alzheimer's
    29 septembre 2026 · 1 h 09 min
    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…
  • TWiN 74: Plastic astrocyte networks with Melissa Cooper
    30 juillet 2026 · 1 h 06 min
    Melissa Cooper joins TWiN to discuss her discovery that astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Tim Cheung Guest:…
  • TWiN 73: The price of a bigger brain
    25 juin 2026 · 1 h 27 min
    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…
  • TWiN 72: What cesarean babies miss
    1 juin 2026 · 1 h 09 min
    TWiN explains the finding that vaginal microbiota transfer ameliorates cesarean-associated neurodevelopmental deficits in mice via synthesis of a sphingosine derivative on…
  • TWiN 71: Psychedelics rewire the brain from within
    29 avril 2026 · 1 h 31 min
    TWiN explains the finding that activation of intracellular, not plasma membrane, serotonin 2A receptors is responsible for the plasticity-promoting and antidepressant-like…
  • TWiN 70: Unraveling the axon wrap
    17 mars 2026 · 1 h 19 min
    TWiN explains the role of a ubiquitin ligase component in regulating the sheathing of multiple axons by Schwann cells. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim…
  • TWiN 69: Fibromyalgia and the microbiome
    5 mars 2026 · 1 h 11 min
    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,…
  • TWiN 68: Firewall for the brain
    27 janvier 2026 · 1 h 14 min
    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:…
  • TWiN 67: Interpreting situation-specific facial signals
    24 décembre 2025 · 1 h 31 min
    TWiN explores how theta phase shifts mediate contextual perception of facial expressions during everyday social interactions. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and…
  • TWiN 66: Neuroscience of overeating
    26 novembre 2025 · 1 h 24 min
    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,…
  • TWiN 65: Air pollutants promote dementia
    4 novembre 2025 · 1 h 37 min
    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…
  • TWiN 64: How the brain decides what we see
    8 octobre 2025 · 1 h 14 min
    TWiN explains how visual neurons show functional flexibility by selectively responding to subsets of inputs representing attended objects while ignoring those conveying…
  • TWiN 63: Microbiome-targeted neurotherapy
    21 août 2025 · 1 h 32 min
    TWiN discusses research showing that Lactobacillus acidophilus promotes cognitive function recovery after cerebral ischemia, by regulating microglial peroxisomal function. Hosts:…
  • TWiN 62: Memories of bad food
    23 juillet 2025 · 1 h 22 min
    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…
  • TWiN 61: Blood to the brain
    25 juin 2025 · 1 h 40 min
    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.…
  • TWiN 60: You get the gist of it?
    3 juin 2025 · 1 h 05 min
    TWiN discusses experiments which show that high-fidelity memories that lose their precision with time depends on reorganization of hippocampal circuitry. Hosts: Vincent…
  • TWiN 59: AI co-scientist
    2 avril 2025 · 1 h 15 min
    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…
  • TWiN 58: Tongue-dragging rescue behavior
    10 mars 2025 · 1 h 14 min
    TWiN explains a study showing that when a mouse is confronted with an unconscious conspecific, it engages in behavior including tongue-dragging to resuscitate the animal via a…
  • TWiN 57: Repetitive injury, herpes, and Alzheimer's
    4 février 2025 · 40 min
    TWiN discusses a study showing that repetitive injury reactivates HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model and induces phenotypes associated with Alzheimer's disease. Hosts: Vincent…
  • TWiN 56: Astrocytes help neurons remember
    26 novembre 2024 · 1 h 01 min
    TWiN explains a study showing that while groups of neurons, form the basis for memory, astrocytes are key components of the adaptive reponse to learning experiences, and regulate…
  • TWiN 55: A brain circuit for day/night balance
    28 octobre 2024 · 1 h 09 min
    TWiN explains the identification of a brain circuit and periodic branch-specific neurotransmitter deployment that regulates organismal adaptation to photoperiod change. Hosts:…
  • TWiN 54: How pregnancy transforms the brain
    1 octobre 2024 · 1 h 05 min
    TWiN explores how pregnancy leads to modifications in brain structure and function that may prepare the mother for parenting. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and…
  • TWiN 53: Slowing time by cooling the brain
    29 juillet 2024 · 1 h 10 min
    Joseph Paton and Felipe Rodrigues join TWiN to explain how they used temperature manipulation to alter the speed of neuronal dynamics in the dorsal striatum of rats, a…
  • TWiN 52: Probiotic improves social behavior in children with ASD
    24 juin 2024 · 1 h 06 min
    Mauro Costa-Mattioli returns to TWiN to discuss the results of a placebo controlled, double blind clinical trial of a probiotic which improved social behavior but not autism…
  • TWiN 51: Sensory processing dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders
    28 mai 2024 · 1 h 11 min
    TWiN reviews altered somatosensory reactivity, which is frequently observed among individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and in mouse models the developmental timing…
  • TWiN 50: Neurological sequelae after COVID-19
    29 avril 2024 · 1 h 04 min
    TWiN reviews experiments which show that SARS-CoV-2 triggers the up-regulation of synaptic components and perturbs local electrical field potential in cerebral organoids,…
  • TWiN 49: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest mouse of all?
    25 mars 2024 · 1 h 31 min
    TWiN welcomes mice to the elite club of 'self-aware' animals, with a study demonstrating a mirror-induced self-directed behavior in mice resembling visual self-recognition.…
  • TWiN 48: Traumatic brain injury and retroviruses
    19 février 2024 · 51 min
    TWiN describes a study that reveals activation of endogenous retroviruses in oligodenroglia from patients with traumatic brain injury. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd,…
  • TWiN 47: Walking after spinal cord injury
    29 janvier 2024 · 55 min
    TWiN explains an amazing study of a man who was paralyzed after a spinal cord injury and regained the ability to walk after implantation of a brain-spinal cord interface. Hosts:…
  • TWiN 46: Neuronal activity promotes glioma progression
    1 janvier 2024 · 51 min
    TWiN explains research showing that interaction between glioma cells and neurons in the brain shares mechanistic features with synaptic plasticity that contributes to memory and…
  • TWiN 45: Acupuncture modulates the immune system
    13 décembre 2023 · 52 min
    TWiN discusses research showing that sciatic nerve activation with electroacupuncture at the sciatic nerve controls systemic inflammation and rescues mice from polymicrobial…
  • TWiN 44: ADHD and persistent pain
    2 novembre 2023 · 1 h 01 min
    TWiN reviews a mouse model of ADHD to characterize hypersensitivity to pain, and that sensitization is further amplified in a pathological inflammatory state. Hosts: Vincent…
  • TWiN 43: Pavlovian opioid tolerance
    4 octobre 2023 · 1 h 03 min
    TWiN discusses a study of on the pathways that control opioid analgesic tolerance, a root cause of opioid overdose and misuse, which can develop through an associative learning.…
  • TWiN 42: Therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs
    18 juillet 2023 · 57 min
    TWiN explains how psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA, which are being explored for treating a wide range of neuropsychiatric diseases, reopen the social reward…
  • TWiN 41: Alzheimer's and melanin-concentrating hormone
    20 juin 2023 · 1 h 19 min
    Vivianne explains how early in Alzheimer's disease, the brain attempts to counteract the increased excitatory drive caused by amyloid deposition, and that melanin-concentrating…
  • TWiN 40: Dopamine organizes behavior's syllables
    11 mai 2023 · 1 h 04 min
    Tim takes TWiN through two studies on the role of dopamine: that syllables are natural units of spontaneous behavior used by the brain to structure action, and that mesolimbic…
  • TWiN 39: Virus-like capsids trigger paraneoplastic disease
    28 avril 2023 · 53 min
    Junjie from Jason's lab joins TWiN to discuss the observation that the cell gene PNMA2 encodes non-enveloped virus-like capsids that induce autoantibodies which underlie…
  • TWiN 38: Bacterial immunity heals sensory neurons
    27 mars 2023 · 1 h 05 min
    TWiN explains the finding that immunity to commensal bacteria promotes sensory neuron regeneration via the cytokine interleukin-17A. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Ori Lieberman,…
  • TWiN 37: Microglia at the crossroads
    23 janvier 2023 · 1 h 15 min
    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.…
  • TWiN 36: Unbearable neurologists
    3 janvier 2023 · 1 h 30 min
    TWiN answers listener questions about Alzheimer's disease, glaucoma and the microbiota, Dravet's Syndrome, schizophrenia, brain development, and chips implanted in the human…

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