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Kara Santa Maria. Now this week is an exciting episode but before we dive into it I want to thank those of you who continue to make talk nerdy possible each and every week.

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All right so this week is an exciting episode because I had the opportunity to sit down with Donna Jackson Nakazawa.

Donna is a science journalist and author and a speaker who really focuses her work on the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion.

And her newest book of six, I should mention, is called The Angel and the assassin,

the tiny brain cell that changed the course of medicine.

And those tiny brain cells that we're going to be discussing,

of course, are microglia.

So guys, without any further ado, here she is Donna Jackson Nakazawa.

Donna, thank you so much for joining me today.

Pleasure to be here.

Thanks for having me.

Of course, I'm so excited to talk about your new book, The Angel and The

Assassin, the Tiny Brain Cell that changed the course of medicine.

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