# Lara Labarta-Bajo explains how infections affect your brain Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063/lara-labarta-bajo-explains-how-infections-affect-your-brain Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063/lara-labarta-bajo-explains-how-infections-affect-your-brain.md Podcast: [Beyond Lab Walls | Salk Institute](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063) Published: 2024-09-10T22:51:00+00:00 Episode link: https://f6581ef4-4950-4497-9ce2-674af8984163.libsyn.com/lara-labarta-bajo-beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/f6581ef4-4950-4497-9ce2-674af8984163/Beyond-Lab-Walls-Lara-Labarta-Bajo.mp3?dest-id=4348308 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063/episodes/lara-labarta-bajo-explains-how-infections-affect-your-brain Duration seconds: 2116 ## Resource How can an infection in your lungs have such a lasting effect on your brain? Lara Labarta-Bajo, a postdoctoral researcher in Associate Professor Nicola Allen 's lab, studies how the immune system and the brain communicate with each other. Her latest findings reveal a surprising relationship between infections, brain aging, and mobility. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063/episodes/lara-labarta-bajo-explains-how-infections-affect-your-brain/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063/lara-labarta-bajo-explains-how-infections-affect-your-brain.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.