TWiN reviews how, in a mouse stroke model, recovery of movement is associated with the remaining cortex and the striatum coordinating their activity together.

Hosts: Ori Lieberman, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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• Recovery after stroke in mice (Cell Rep)
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TWiN explains the observation that in mice, the HIV-1 co-receptor CCR5 closes the temporal window for linking different memories.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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• CCR5 and memory linking (Nature)
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TWiN describes experiments demonstrating that gut injection of alpha-synuclein fibrils in mice converts endogenous alpha-synuclein to a pathologic form that spreads to the brain and leads to features of Parkinson’s disease.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Ori Lieberman, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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• Gut-brain alpha-synuclein transport in PD (Neuron)
• Gut has a mind of its own (Colbert Report)
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TWiN explains the finding that in the mouse visual cortex, astrocytes are key elements in the experience-dependent wiring of brain circuits.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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• Astrocytes close the critical period (Science)
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TWiN reveals how oligodendrocytes enhance axonal energy metabolism by transcellular delivery of a protein, SIRT2, that deacetylates mitochondrial proteins.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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• Glia 101 (TWiN 19)
• Oligodendrocytes enhance axonal energy metabolism (Neuron)
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TWiN discusses the finding that rewiring retinal projections to the auditory thalamus in ferrets leads to visually responsive cells that are typical of cells in the visual cortex.

Hosts: Ori Lieberman, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

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• Remapping retinal projections (Nature)
• Sweet vs bitter taste (Nature)
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TWiN reviews evidence in mice that brain neurons encode and retrieve specific immune responses.

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• Memory of immunity (Cell)
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TWiN answers listener questions on sex in neuroscience studies, rotating memories in the brain, odorant receptors in the brain, and neutrophils that promote neuron survival.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Timothy Cheung

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• Males and females in neuroscience studies (New Scientist)
• Brain rotates memories (Quanta)
• Odorant receptors in brain (one, two)
• Neutrophils promote neuron survival (Nat Imm)
• Letters read on TWiN 25
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Ioana and Robert join TWiN to discuss their work demonstrating that rodents acquire maternal behavior by social transmission from an experienced mother to a virgin female how to care for a litter via endogenous oxytocin.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Timothy Cheung

Guests: Ioana Carcea and Robert Froemke

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• Oxytocin neurons and social transmission of behavior (Nature)
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Bruce Carter joins TWiN to discuss the peripheral nervous system: the development of nerves that convey sensory information like touch from the tips of your toes to the brain, and Schwann cells, which are necessary for ensuring that those sensory signals are sustained as they travel long distances to the brain.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison

Guest: Bruce Carter

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• Control of neuron survival by p75 (J Neurosci)
• Sympathetic nervous system (Nat Rev Neurosci)
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth and PMP22 protein (J Biol Chem)
• Satellite glial cells (Nat Rev Neurosci)
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