This podcast is structured as a short scientific journal club where I will discuss scientific papers and relate their major findings. Generally, journal clubs h...
In this episode, I cover a paper by Kochan et al., 2024. The title of the paper is "Enhanced mitochondrial fusion during a critical period of synaptic plasticity in adult-born neurons ." Here is the link for the paper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38582081/Here is the webpage of the Bergami lab: https://bergami-lab.com. You may access other publications and the current focuses of their lab by following the link.
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#18 Housekeeping in the schizophrenic brain with Katy Bjornson
Katy shares one of her graduate school papers on how a cell clean-up mechanism improves cognition and its consequences in schizophrenia.Here is a link to the paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39019008/And here is the Cahill lab https://cahilllab.wiscweb.wisc.edu
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#17 The brain where it is not "thinking": regulating the immune response
In this episode, I cover a paper by Jin et al., 2024. The title of the paper is "A body-brain circuit that regulates body inflammatory responses ." Here is the link for the paper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38692285/.Here is the webpage of the Kaeser lab: https://www.zukerlab.com. You may access other publications and the current focuses of their lab by following the link.
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#16 Dopamine in psychosis and substance use disorder with Loren Peeters
Loren Peeters shares her graduate paper titled Effects of positive mGlu5 modulation on D2 signaling and nicotine-conditioned place preference: Mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance in a transgenerational model of drug abuse vulnerability in psychosis. Here is the link for the paper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39462877/. You can follow the full-text links.Here is the webpage of the Brown lab at East Tennessee State University: https://brownlabetsu.weebly.com You may access other publications and the current focuses of their lab by following the link.
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#15 Dopamine as we move and pursue
In this episode, I cover a paper by Cai et al., 2024. The title of the paper is "Dopamine dynamics are dispensable for movement but promote reward responses ." Here is the link for the paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08038-z.epdf?sharing_token=iaTQaNGlwJ3U0t63gRdvoNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MqwcJmJFCUL7uZ_15TPCZ8espe7y0UtGVKs-OYDW0-m_RyOV3e_4j76PM8ppXJi_A_Epvvz9vVyfGlJxd6RlTQ6xjr5ibCAnzJu4zd5TWqCcvRdGOeu2w-VcIdKNtclgQ%3D. Here is the webpage of the Kaeser lab: https://kaeser.hms.harvard.edu. You may access other publications and the current focuses of their lab by following the link.
This podcast is structured as a short scientific journal club where I will discuss scientific papers and relate their major findings. Generally, journal clubs have a scientific audience ranging from college science students to university professors. And the communication during the sessions is of scientific jargon that is very niche to the field of study. For this podcast, I try very hard to use everyday language to explain science. It is not going to be easy, but it will get better over time. I am also a science student, so in this podcast, we learn science together!