This Week in Neuroscience

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)
Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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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Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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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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Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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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)
Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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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)
Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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