Sonia Villapol, Ph.D.
@svillapol.bsky.social
🧠 NeuroScientist👩🏻🔬 Galega en 🚀Houston 🔬 🧬 http://villapol.hmailabs.org #TBI #alzheimer #LongCovid 👩🏻💻Writing about science
Sonia Villapol: "O preocupante non son as pantallas senón o que poden desprazar: horas de sono, exercicio, conversas presenciais ou simple aburrimento" - www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/soc...
Sonia Villapol: "O preocupante non son as pantallas senón o que poden desprazar: horas de sono, exercicio, conversas presenciais ou simple aburrimento"
Sonia Villapol (A Pastoriza, A Terra Chá, 1977), neurocientífica, profesora e xefa de laboratorio no Texas Medical Center en Houston, vén de publicar 'Cerebr...
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#CerebroEnModoON ‼️”Cerebro en Modo ON”🧠👀🔛 👉Neurociencia para a mocidade 🧠 🤩Chegou da man de #EditorialGalaxia 🙏💫 👏Xa nas librerías 📚 💡https://editorialgalaxia.gal/produto/cerebro-en-modo-on/ 💫 Presentación en 2 min do libro 👇
Telomerase mRNA-Lipid nanoparticles attenuate neuroinflammation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Telomerase mRNA-Lipid nanoparticles attenuate neuroinflammation after traumatic brain injury in mice
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of chronic neurological disability, yet no disease-modifying therapy exists. Emerging evidence indicat…
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Excited to share our new preprint on bioRxiv! 🧠✨ In this study, we developed intranasal CRISPR-lipid nanoparticles targeting MAPK9 to reduce neuroinflammation after traumatic brain injury (TBI).
🚀 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲? Astronauts, including the recent Artemis II crew, need rehabilitation after returning to Earth due to muscle atrophy, bone loss, or balance disorders. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Toward #nanomedicine -enabled RNA therapeutics for #AlzheimersDisease Goknur Kara & Sonia Villapol @svillapol.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Researchers, led by Dr. Sonia Villapol at Houston Methodist, found short-term antibiotic treatment significantly reduced #Neuroinflammation & #Neurodegeneration following #TraumaticBrainInjury by altering #Gut #Microbiome in animal models. @commsbio.nature.com 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Antibiotic-induced gut microbiome remodeling reduces neuroinflammation in traumatic brain injury - Communications Biology
Short-term oral antibiotics reshape the gut microbiome after single or repeated TBI in male mice, yet reduce lesion volume, apoptosis, gliosis, cytokines, and immune infiltration, revealing SCFA-indep...
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En certos pacientes, os síntomas propios dun cadro psicótico xorden por un ataque do sistema inmune ao sistema nervioso. Así nolo explica a neurocientífica galega @svillapol.bsky.social para @es.theconversation.com.
Cando o sistema inmune ataca por erro o cerebro e sementa o caos na mente
As encefalites autoinmunes son un un grupo de patoloxías que cursan con inflamación do cerebro
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Una afección llamada encefalitis autoinmune genera síntomas similares a los de un cuadro psicótico característico del trastorno bipolar o la esquizofrenia. ✍️ @svillapol.bsky.social
Cuando el sistema inmune ataca por error al cerebro y siembra el caos en la mente
Una afección llamada encefalitis autoinmune genera síntomas similares a los de un cuadro psicótico característico del trastorno bipolar o la esquizofrenia. Diagnosticarla a tiempo es vital para encauzar su tratamiento.
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Cuando el sistema inmune ataca por error al cerebro y siembra el caos en la mente theconversation.com/cuando-el-si...
Cuando el sistema inmune ataca por error al cerebro y siembra el caos en la mente
Una afección llamada encefalitis autoinmune genera síntomas similares a los de un cuadro psicótico característico del trastorno bipolar o la esquizofrenia. Diagnosticarla a tiempo es vital para encauz...
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¿Los antibióticos pueden restaurar una lesión cerebral? Un estudio avanza esta posibilidad www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/soci...
¿Los antibióticos pueden restaurar una lesión cerebral? Un estudio avanza esta posibilidad
La investigación, liderada por la gallega Sonia Villapol, revela en un modelo animal que los antimicrobianos ayudan a equilibrar las bacterias del intestino y reducir así la neuroinflamación que está ...
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Altering gut bacteria with antibiotics reduces inflammation from traumatic brain injuries www.psypost.org/altering-gut...
Altering gut bacteria with antibiotics reduces inflammation from traumatic brain injuries
Researchers discovered that clearing out certain digestive bacteria with antibiotics helps calm the immune system. This temporary microbial shift protected mice from severe brain swelling and cellular...
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📣 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭! 🧠🦠 The gut and the brain are more connected than we think. 🔬 In our new study published in @commsbio.nature.com we discovered that a short course of 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐁𝐈 can reduce brain injury by eliminating harmful gut bacteria. ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s42...
What if healing traumatic brain injury starts in the gut? In a newly published study, OUR TEAM found that short-term antibiotic treatment significantly reduced neuroinflammation after TBI in animal models, via @EurekAlert! @MethodistHosp www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Trust your gut to heal your brain
In a new study published in Nature Communications Biology, Houston Methodist researchers led by Sonia Villapol, Ph.D., found that short-term antibiotic treatment significantly...
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Villapol Lab🔬 Brain Repair, Alzheimer's, Inflammation & Neurodegeneration Lab (🧠BRAIN LAB) 🔗Villapol.hmailabs.org
Mulleres investigadoras reivindican unha ciencia inclusiva para avanzar: "Somos o 50% e queremos competir en igualdade de condicións" - www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/soc...
Mulleres investigadoras reivindican unha ciencia inclusiva para avanzar: "Somos o 50% e queremos competir en igualdade de condicións"
As disparidades de xénero persisten nos niveis máis altos de investigación. Só 9% das persoas inventoras son mulleres e só 30% ocupan postos de relevanc...
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Our new study: 🧠Sex-specific effects of fecal microbiota transplantation on TBI-exacerbated Alzheimer’s disease pathology in mice www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...
Frontiers | Sex-specific effects of fecal microbiota transplantation on TBI-exacerbated Alzheimer’s disease pathology in mice
BackgroundTraumatic brain injury (TBI) accelerates Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology and neuroinflammation, potentially via gut-brain axis disruptions. Whet...
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Covid persistente, daño cerebral y microbiota, con Sonia Villapol www.rtve.es/play/audios/... @rtve
Covid persistente, daño cerebral y microbiota, con Sonia Villapol
La pandemia de covid de la que se cumplen cinco años devastó vidas y economías y como legado, escribe la neurocientífica Sonia Villapol, un covid persistente.
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💯 Sonia Villapol sobre a diáspora científica, as nosas universidades e as políticas académicas @praza.gal praza.gal/opinion/o-fa...
O faladoiro da diáspora científica - Praza Pública
Escribín sobre isto mesmo hai unha década aquí mesmo en Praza, e as cousas parece que pouco mudaron. A precariedade contractual, a escasa estabilidade das convocatorias, a dependencia da vontade polít...
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get your kiddos vaccinated, but don’t forget the clean air either—vaccines do not prevent infection, and children are not immune to longcovid. reduction is great, prevention is better.
Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 9mo agoA report published in a CDC journal reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children
🧠 U𝐧𝐡𝐚 𝐢𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨́𝐧 𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚: 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐢 𝐮𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐨 📖 𝐝𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐮𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨́𝐧 𝐂𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢́𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨 𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐢́𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨 𝐝𝐮𝐧𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐬.🌈. editorialgalaxia.gal/galaxia-pres...
Sex differences in Alzheimer’s linked to protein that blocks brain cell growth www.psypost.org/sex-differen...
Sex differences in Alzheimer’s linked to protein that blocks brain cell growth
A new study finds that a signaling pathway is hyperactive in female brains with Alzheimer's, halting the production of new neurons. Blocking this pathway successfully restored regeneration in mice.
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Good summary of lack of evidence and potential for harm of components of the recommended diet www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/08/1... by @jesshamzelou.bsky.social
America’s new dietary guidelines ignore decades of scientific research
An emphasis on fruit, vegetables, and whole foods is welcome—but it’s wrong to suggest steak and beef tallow should be prominent.
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🎁Estes son días de agasallos... 🤗... a nós tocounos unha comunidade de socias e socios que garante contar o que sucede con contexto e malia ás presións ‼️Medra, pero aínda non é dabondo 🤝 @svillapol.bsky.social explícache por que é boa idea seres de Praza 🔗 praza.gal/faitedepraza