002 - Spare Parts & Second Thoughts
from Neuro et al. Hosted by Ayça Ercan
Your brain builds what you "see" almost half a second before you're aware of it (kind of), and in labs all around the world, researchers are building working pieces of human spinal cord and muscle from scratch to understand motor neuron diseases. This episode: an EEG study that catches the exact moment unconscious processing hands off to conscious perception, how marmosets' brain compute to cooperate and a deep dive into how 3D organoids are rewriting what we know about ALS and SMA. Act I:Shi, W., Meisner, O. C., Jadi, M. P., Chang, S. W., & Nandy, A. S. (2026). Canonical decision computations underlie behavioral and neural signatures of cooperation in primates. Neuron, 114(14), 2657-2667.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2026.04.022 Menétrey, M. Q., Herzog, M. H., & Pascucci, D. (2026). Sequential neural dynamics underlie unconscious integration and conscious perception of visual stimuli. PLoS Biology, 24(7), e3003894. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003894Act II:Frizzi, B., Barbosa Correia, A.M., Faravelli, I. et al. Using human 3D organoid models to gain mechanistic insight in motor neuron diseases. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-026-01057-x Act III:https://www.nature.com/briefing/translational-research?brieferEntryPoint=TransResBriefingBanner
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