This Week in Neuroscience
Hosted by Tim Cheung and Vincent Racaniello and Vivianne Morrison · Vincent Racaniello
4.8from 162 ratings
- 75
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 162
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About This Week in Neuroscience
A podcast about the nervous system.
- Publisher
- Vincent Racaniello
- Category
- science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Oct 2019
- Latest episode
- 29 Sept 2026
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29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiN 75: Arc, tau, and Alzheimer's
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TWiN 74: Plastic astrocyte networks with Melissa Cooper
25 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiN 73: The price of a bigger brain
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TWiN 75: Arc, tau, and Alzheimer's
Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So in Alzheimer's disease, the two main hallmarks of the disease in terms of pathology are amyloid, which is that are formed by misfolded beta amyloid peptide. And the other hallmark are these tau tangles, which are intracellular, so they form these aggregates inside the cell. And the merging picture over the last decade is that the amyloid is triggered by something. Maybe it's traumatic brain injury, maybe it's neuroinflammation, maybe it's viral infections, and the amyloid then eventually somehow kicks off phosphorylation, hyperphosphorylation of this tau protein, and that's when the tau protein becomes toxic, and then it can form these aggregates, it gets misfolded, it gets, you know, there's proteostasis issues in the cell, but it's It's thought that the tau is actually the culprit that kills the cell in the end, not the amyloid. […]
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