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Chaitra Sathyaprakash
@drchaitras.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
NCNP, Kodaira 🇯🇵
DMD cognitive phenotypes, Neurodegeneration, iPSC-neural organoids
Co-host of The BRAIN Podcast
https://academic.oup.com/brain/pages/podcast
Pinned
Brain podcast no. 29 is out! Had a lovely time chatting to PhD candidate, Alida Chen, about her work on "Distinct transcriptional changes distinguish efficient and poor remyelination in multiple sclerosis."
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Can transcriptional analysis detect efficient remyelination in multiple sclerosis?
The Brain Podcast · Episode
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I can't get over how amazing our locations for Muscle Treatment Group meetings are! This year at Kadoshima was another unforgettable experience!
November 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Excited to share that our new review in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology is now out! "Stem/progenitor cell-based therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy"
Check it out! 📃📢📢
www.frontiersin.org/journals/cel...
Frontiers | Stem/progenitor cell-based therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a genetic disease where loss of sarcolemma-associated protein, dystrophin, leads to progressive muscle wasting, and eventual l...
www.frontiersin.org
September 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Brain podcast no. 29 is out! Had a lovely time chatting to PhD candidate, Alida Chen, about her work on "Distinct transcriptional changes distinguish efficient and poor remyelination in multiple sclerosis."
open.spotify.com/episode/6uKx...
Can transcriptional analysis detect efficient remyelination in multiple sclerosis?
The Brain Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Fascinating evolutionary advancement to anticipate infection.
Avatars who appear to be sick entering the peripersonal space in virtual reality are anticipated by multisensory–motor areas, activate the salience network, and trigger activation of innate lymphoid cells, mirroring responses seen in actual infections

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neural anticipation of virtual infection triggers an immune response - Nature Neuroscience
Serino et al. show that seeing an infectious avatar approach the body in virtual reality triggers an immune response, indicating that the brain prepares the body to fight infections even for perceived...
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Really excited to announce the release of the 28th episode of the Brain podcast: Nephrology meets Neurology: how kidney health links to Neurodegeneration.
My 5th time hosting! Lovely guests, great discussion. Check out the podcast and paper 🎙🗣💬

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Nephrology Meets Neurology: how kidney health links to neurodegeneration
The Brain Podcast · Episode
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June 25, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Thanks so much to @isscr.org for the Travel and Merit Award for the ISSCR 2025 Annual Meeting! Super excited to go to Hong Kong on 11-14 June 2025 and share my work on DMD brain organoids!
Anybody else going? #ISSCR2025 invt.io/1bxb7596g1h
I've registered for ISSCR 2025 Annual Meeting, join me
Register now
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April 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A privilege to be involved in this study!
January 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
A pleasure to cohost a new episode of the Brain Podcast with Dr Thermistocleous. Wonderful insights about species- and sex-specific nociception from guest, Prof Frank Porecca!
open.spotify.com/episode/1Wzk...
Nociceptors are functionally male or female: from mouse to monkey to man?
The Brain Podcast · Episode
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January 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Loving my 2025 planner design!
January 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I recently started trying some text-to-audio apps for articles. Anyone have favourites that they recommend?
December 18, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Lots of lovely nestin+ cells in my cerebral organoids!
December 13, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Lots of IF staining to end the week!
December 13, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Reposted by Chaitra Sathyaprakash
Monoclonal antibodies in #Alzheimers clear amyloid plaques and increase Aβ42. High Aβ42 levels improve cognition. Removing amyloid comes with risks: brain edema ('ARIA') and faster brain atrophy. The trade-off is not worth it.

A nice summary @psypost.bsky.social www.psypost.org/neuroscienti...
Neuroscientists just turned a major Alzheimer's theory on its head
New research suggests Alzheimer's drugs may improve cognition by increasing Aβ42 levels rather than just reducing plaques, challenging the amyloid cascade hypothesis and pointing to new therapeutic st...
www.psypost.org
December 9, 2024 at 8:43 PM