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Ingrid Wickelgren

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Mar 17, 2026

17:19
And there was even more, right?
17:21
Right.
17:21
In the very latest work, they use the same setup to piece together exactly how the astrocytes communicated to the neurons in the circuit.
17:31
So the actual molecules they release after the calcium builds up that then act on neurons that... either lead to swimming, the swim neurons, or the ones that inhibit swimming.
17:43
So they were able to fill out the details in this circuit.
17:46
And then another group was looking at a completely different system.
17:50
They were looking at slices of the hippocampus and mice.
20:08
Is this something that researchers are thinking about?

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