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TWiN 73: The price of a bigger brain
Jun 25, 2026
Unknown duration
TWiN 72: What cesarean babies miss
Jun 1, 2026
1h 09m 10s
TWiN 71: Psychedelics rewire the brain from within
Apr 29, 2026
1h 31m 05s
TWiN 70: Unraveling the axon wrap
Mar 17, 2026
1h 19m 19s
TWiN 69: Fibromyalgia and the microbiome
Mar 5, 2026
1h 11m 29s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/25/26 | TWiN 73: The price of a bigger brain | TWiN unpacks a striking paradox, that the very cell divisions that built the human brain's most advanced layers also put them at greatest risk, and how a dedicated DNA repair pathway saves them. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Vivianne Morrison, and Tim Cheung Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Expansion of outer cortical CUX2 neurons requires adaptations for DNA repair (Nature) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
| 6/1/26 | TWiN 72: What cesarean babies miss✨ | cesarean babiesvaginal microbiota+3 | — | Cell Host Microbe | — | cesareanmicrobiota transfer+3 | — | 1h 09m 10s | |
| 4/29/26 | TWiN 71: Psychedelics rewire the brain from within✨ | psychedelicsserotonin receptors+3 | — | MicrobeTVDiscord Server+3 | — | psychedelicsserotonin 2A receptors+3 | — | 1h 31m 05s | |
| 3/17/26 | TWiN 70: Unraveling the axon wrap✨ | axon sheathingubiquitin ligase+3 | — | Schwann cellsNeuron | — | axon wrapubiquitin ligase+3 | — | 1h 19m 19s | |
| 3/5/26 | TWiN 69: Fibromyalgia and the microbiome✨ | fibromyalgiagut microbiota+4 | — | Neuron | — | fibromyalgiamicrobiome+4 | — | 1h 11m 29s | |
| 1/27/26 | TWiN 68: Firewall for the brain✨ | speech brain-computer interfacescommunication restoration+4 | — | MicrobeTVCell+1 | — | brain-computer interfaceparalysis+5 | — | 1h 14m 21s | |
| 12/24/25 | TWiN 67: Interpreting situation-specific facial signals✨ | facial expressionscontextual perception+3 | — | MicrobeTVCell Rep+1 | — | theta phase shiftsfacial signals+3 | — | 1h 30m 40s | |
| 11/26/25 | TWiN 66: Neuroscience of overeating✨ | neurobiological mechanismsovereating+5 | — | MicrobeTVNeurobiology of overeating | — | overeatingobesity+5 | — | 1h 24m 11s | |
| 11/4/25 | TWiN 65: Air pollutants promote dementia✨ | air pollutiondementia+4 | — | Lewy Body Dementia UKMicrobeTV+2 | — | air pollutiondementia+5 | — | 1h 37m 18s | |
| 10/8/25 | TWiN 64: How the brain decides what we see✨ | visual neuronsfunctional flexibility+3 | — | MicrobeTVNat Comm | — | visual neuronsfunctional flexibility+4 | — | 1h 14m 01s | |
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| 8/21/25 | TWiN 63: Microbiome-targeted neurotherapy✨ | microbiomeneurotherapy+3 | — | Lactobacillus acidophilusMicrobeTV+2 | — | microbiomeneurotherapy+4 | — | 1h 31m 51s | |
| 7/23/25 | TWiN 62: Memories of bad food✨ | neurosciencefood aversion+3 | — | MicrobeTVNature | — | neurosciencefood aversion+3 | — | 1h 21m 48s | |
| 6/25/25 | TWiN 61: Blood to the brain | 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 Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Circulatory proteins taken up by brain microglia (bioRxiv) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
| 6/3/25 | TWiN 60: You get the gist of it? | 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 Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Loss of precision memory and the hippocampus (Nature) Changes in hippocampi of cab drivers (PNAS) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
| 4/2/25 | TWiN 59: AI co-scientist | 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 Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server AI cracks superbug problem (BBC) Accelerating scientific breakthroughs (Google Research) Towards an AI co-scientist (arXiv) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
| 3/10/25 | TWiN 58: Tongue-dragging rescue behavior | TWiN explains a study showing that when a mouse is confronted with an unconscious conspecific, it engages in behavior including tongue-dragging to resuscitate the animal via a tongue-brain connection. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Tim Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Tongue-dragging in mice (Sci Adv) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
| 2/4/25 | TWiN 57: Repetitive injury, herpes, and Alzheimer's | TWiN discusses a study showing that repetitive injury reactivates HSV-1 in a human brain tissue model and induces phenotypes associated with Alzheimer's disease. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Tim Cheung Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Repetitive injury, herpes, and Alzheimers (Sci Signal) The tau of herpesvirus (TWiV 1187) Fishing for viruses in senile (TWiV 519) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
| 11/26/24 | TWiN 56: Astrocytes help neurons remember | TWiN explains a study showing that while groups of neurons, form the basis for memory, astrocytes are key components of the adaptive reponse to learning experiences, and regulate the flow of information during circuit plasticity and memory recall. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Tim Cheung Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Write your Senator, oppose RFK Jr nomination Astrocytes and memory (Nature) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
| 10/28/24 | TWiN 55: A brain circuit for day/night balance | TWiN explains the identification of a brain circuit and periodic branch-specific neurotransmitter deployment that regulates organismal adaptation to photoperiod change. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Tim Cheung Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Brain circuit for photoperiod adaptation (Nature) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
| 10/1/24 | TWiN 54: How pregnancy transforms the brain | TWiN explores how pregnancy leads to modifications in brain structure and function that may prepare the mother for parenting. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, and Vivianne Morrison Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Pregnancy transforms the brain (Nature) Hormone-mediated neural remodeling during pregnancy (Science) Effects of pregnancy on brain activity (Nature Comm) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
| 7/29/24 | TWiN 53: Slowing time by cooling the brain | Joseph Paton and Felipe Rodrigues join TWiN to explain how they used temperature manipulation to alter the speed of neuronal dynamics in the dorsal striatum of rats, a manipulation that selectively slowed down or sped up time perception, illuminating the mechanisms of time-based decisions. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison Guest: Joseph J. Paton and Felipe Rodrigues Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision (Nat Neurosci) Hot times for the dorsal striatum (Nat Neurosci) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
| 6/24/24 | TWiN 52: Probiotic improves social behavior in children with ASD | Mauro Costa-Mattioli returns to TWiN to discuss the results of a placebo controlled, double blind clinical trial of a probiotic which improved social behavior but not autism severity in children with ASD. Hosts: Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison Guest: Mauro Costa-Mattioli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Probiotics for autism spectrum disorder (Cell Host Microbe) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
| 5/28/24 | TWiN 51: Sensory processing dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders | TWiN reviews altered somatosensory reactivity, which is frequently observed among individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and in mouse models the developmental timing of aberrant touch processing can predict the manifestation of ASD-associated behaviors in mouse models. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Mouse models of autism spectrum disorder (Nature Neuroscience) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
| 4/29/24 | TWiN 50: Neurological sequelae after COVID-19 | TWiN reviews experiments which show that SARS-CoV-2 triggers the up-regulation of synaptic components and perturbs local electrical field potential in cerebral organoids, organotypic culture of human brain explants and post-mortem brain samples from individuals with COVID-19. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server SARS-CoV-2 perturbs synaptic homeostasis (Nature Micro) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
| 3/25/24 | TWiN 49: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest mouse of all? | TWiN welcomes mice to the elite club of 'self-aware' animals, with a study demonstrating a mirror-induced self-directed behavior in mice resembling visual self-recognition. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Mice are self-aware (Neuron) Mirror self-recognition in mice (Neuron) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your neuroscience questions and comments to twin@microbe.tv | — | ||||||
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46 placements across 41 markets.
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46 placements across 41 markets.