Lovisa Ljungqvist Brinson
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Lovisa Ljungqvist Brinson
@lovisalb.bsky.social
Neuroscience PhD student @ Pitt
Co-mentored by Afonso Silva and Vatsun Sadagopan
We love tiny monkeys! ☺️
Cutting it a bit fine, but here’s my review of the year in neuroscience for 2024

The eighth of these, would you believe? We’ve got dark neurons, tiny monkeys, the most complete brain wiring diagram ever constructed, and much more…
Published on The Spike

Enjoy!

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2024: A Review of the Year in Neuroscience
Feeling a bit wired
medium.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reposted by Lovisa Ljungqvist Brinson
Despite rumors to the contrary, aging marmosets express both 3-Repeat and 4-Repeat isoforms of the Tau protein. This foundational result opens new avenues to understand aging, Alzheimer's disease, and neuropathology in primate models. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Marmosets as model systems for the study of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: Substantiation of physiological tau 3R and 4R isoform expression and phosphorylation
INTRODUCTION Marmosets spontaneously develop pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) including amyloid beta plaques. However, tau expression in the marmoset brain has been understudied. .....
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2024 at 4:59 PM