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)
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Music is by Ronald Jenkees

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TWiN explores how theta phase shifts mediate contextual perception of facial expressions during everyday social interactions.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung

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• Neural computations underlying contextual processing in humans (Cell Rep)
• Previous experience shapes perception (Front Human Neurosci)
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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)
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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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• Links between air pollution and dementias (Science)
• Letter from Susan Schneider Williams Widow of Robin Williams (Lewy Body Dementia UK)
• Awakenings (Wikipedia)
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TWiN explains how visual neurons show functional flexibility by selectively responding to subsets of inputs representing attended objects while ignoring those conveying information about irrelevant objects.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung

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• Gamma-band synchronization in visual cortex (Nat Comm)
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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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• Arc is pdb molecule of the month (PDB)
• Probiotics after stroke (Cell Host Microbe)
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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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• A neural mechanism for post-ingestion feedback (Nature)
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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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• Circulatory proteins taken up by brain microglia (bioRxiv)
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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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• Loss of precision memory and the hippocampus (Nature)
• Changes in hippocampi of cab drivers (PNAS)
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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

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• AI cracks superbug problem (BBC)
• Accelerating scientific breakthroughs (Google Research)
• Towards an AI co-scientist (arXiv)
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