Thanks for sharing, I'll have to look into that book sometime. Also a real throwback to see Jonah Lehrer's name on a piece of scientific journalism. Looks like

Thanks for sharing, I'll have to look into that book sometime. Also a real throwback to see Jonah Lehrer's name on a piece of scientific journalism. Looks like in 2018 there's a few [0] interesting [1] papers [2] on the link between senescent glial cells and neurodegeneration, which I think would support a theory of glial cells playing some role in cognition. Seems to be a fairly active area of research. [0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0543-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0543-y [1]: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jay_Penney/publication/327752923_Elimination_of_senescent_cells_prevents_neurodegeneration_in_mice/links/5bd4a056299bf1124fa749fc/Elimination-of-senescent-cells-prevents-neurodegeneration-in-mice.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jay_Penney/publication/... [2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627318309978 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662731...