The Agenda with Steve Paikin -- Interview with writer Donna Jackson Nakazawa (Feb. 2021)
It's one of most paradigm-shifting and powerful stories in the history of medicine,, writes Donna Jackson Nakazawa. From MS to Parkinson's to Lupus and depression and schizophrenia the microglia, a tiny brain cell, is changing how we understand physical and psychiatric illness. Nakazawa joins to discuss her book, "The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine."
"Microglia are involved in first line innate immunity of the CNS [Central Nervous System].... When activated, microglia can be potent immune effector cells, able to perform a broad range of functions, and they mediate both innate and adaptive responses during CNS injury and disease while remaining quiescent in the steady state." Nov 18, 2009