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Beth Stevens (b. 1970) is an associate professor in the Department of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and the F. M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children’s Hospital. She has helped to identify the role of microglia and complement proteins in the "pruning" or removal of synaptic cells during brain development, and has also determined that the impaired or abnormal microglial function could be responsible for diseases like autism, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's.In 2012, Stevens’s team published evidence that microglia 'eat' synapses, especially those that are weak and unused. The findings pinned down a new role for microglia in wiring the brain, indicating that adult neural circuitry is determined not only by nerve cells but also by the brain’s immune cells; this helped to explain how the brain, which starts out with a surplus of neurons, trims some of the excess away. Neuron named the paper its most influential publication of 2012.Stevens continues to study the function of microglia in both healthy and diseased brains, uncovering evidence that specific proteins play a role in tagging synapses and regulating their engulfment by microglia. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.
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Bluegrass Greats [Easydisc] [2002]
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In My Time of Dying | 3:14 |
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