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This Week in Neuroscience — 73 episodes

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TWiN 74: Plastic astrocyte networks with Melissa Cooper

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TWiN 73: The price of a bigger brain

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TWiN 72: What cesarean babies miss

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TWiN 71: Psychedelics rewire the brain from within

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TWiN 70: Unraveling the axon wrap

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TWiN 69: Fibromyalgia and the microbiome

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TWiN 68: Firewall for the brain

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TWiN 67: Interpreting situation-specific facial signals

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TWiN 66: Neuroscience of overeating

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TWiN 65: Air pollutants promote dementia

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TWiN 64: How the brain decides what we see

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TWiN 63: Microbiome-targeted neurotherapy

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TWiN 62: Memories of bad food

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TWiN 61: Blood to the brain

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TWiN 60: You get the gist of it?

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TWiN 59: AI co-scientist

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TWiN 58: Tongue-dragging rescue behavior

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TWiN 57: Repetitive injury, herpes, and Alzheimer's

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TWiN 56: Astrocytes help neurons remember

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TWiN 55: A brain circuit for day/night balance

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TWiN 54: How pregnancy transforms the brain

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TWiN 53: Slowing time by cooling the brain

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TWiN 52: Probiotic improves social behavior in children with ASD

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TWiN 51: Sensory processing dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders

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TWiN 50: Neurological sequelae after COVID-19

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TWiN 49: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest mouse of all?

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TWiN 48: Traumatic brain injury and retroviruses

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TWiN 47: Walking after spinal cord injury

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TWiN 46: Neuronal activity promotes glioma progression

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TWiN 45: Acupuncture modulates the immune system

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TWiN 44: ADHD and persistent pain

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TWiN 43: Pavlovian opioid tolerance

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TWiN 42: Therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs

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TWiN 41: Alzheimer's and melanin-concentrating hormone

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TWiN 40: Dopamine organizes behavior's syllables

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TWiN 39: Virus-like capsids trigger paraneoplastic disease

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TWiN 38: Bacterial immunity heals sensory neurons

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TWiN 37: Microglia at the crossroads

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TWiN 36: Unbearable neurologists

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TWiN 35: Neuromodulation in treatment-resistant depression

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TWiN 34: Microglia vital after spinal cord injury

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TWiN 33: Viruses leaving the brain

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TWiN 32: Relearning how to move after stroke

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TWiN 31: HIV-1 co-receptor shapes window for memory linking

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TWiN 30: Gut to brain spread of alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease

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TWiN 29: Astrocytes close the critical period

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TWiN 28: Oligodendrocyte performance enhancing exosomes

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TWiN 27: Eyes wired to the auditory cortex

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TWiN 26: Immunological memory in the brain

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TWiN 25: Thanks for listening

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TWiN 24: Social transmission of maternal behavior with Ioana Carcea and Robert Froemke

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TWiN 23: Peripheral nervous system with Bruce Carter

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TWiN 22: It's never lupus

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TWiN 21: How do we know if a mouse is hallucinating?

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TWiN 20: Drifting aromas in the brain

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TWiN 19: Glia 101

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TWiN 18: Autism and the gut microbiome with Mauro Costa-Mattioli

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TWiN 17: Worms see the light with Michael Nitabach

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TWiN 15: Microbiome and neurodevelopment with Helen Vuong

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TWiN 14: Reducing Alzheimer-like pathology in mice

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TWiN 13: mRNAs for long-term memory

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TWiN 12: A gene for short-term memory

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TWiN 11: A dollar per neuron

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TWiN 10: Remodeling synapses with a cytokine

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TWiN 9: COVID-19 neurology with Genna Waldman

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TWiN 8: Replacing lost neurons

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TWiN 7: Stress, the good, bad and beautiful

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TWiN 6: Neural control of sexual behavior

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TWiN 5: Anosmia and COVID-19

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TWiN 4: It's a trap!

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TWiN 3: Gambling on dopamine

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TWiN 2: Cells that fire together wire together

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TWiN 1: The ultimate challenge