By audreykarperien

The author is a freakin microgliologist, ok?

CREEPING INTO YOUR HEAD – A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO MICROGLIA

Know anyone with a brain? Know anyone with a problem with their brain? If you answered yes or no to either or both of those questions, you need to know about microglia. More importantly, however, you need to know about them in order to alleviate my distress. It’s a sucking burden to over and over have it come out at the grocery store that I am a microgliologist and to have no one know what I just said. Not ever. Always just a cocking of the head and a stifled pursing of the lips. So, what are microglia? They are…