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The Transmitter is an essential resource for the neuroscience community, dedicated to helping scientists at all career stages, delivering useful information, insights, and tools to build bridges across neuroscience and advance research.
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George Musser aims to crack the deep question of what “understanding” is, however unbrain-like its models may be.
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Growing brain organoids from the cells of multiple people may help scale up comparative brain research.
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Four years ago, Laura Luebbert noticed something unusual in two classic papers on bee navigation. That was just the beginning.
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July is Fragile X Awareness Month, and in this roundup we highlight some of our coverage of the condition.
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As the U.S. Congress begins to discuss federal science funding for 2025, plans to compensate for this year’s cuts to the BRAIN Initiative face an uphill battle.
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A recent paper warns researchers that a common calcium imaging protocol can lead to spurious results.
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Benjamin Scott, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University, explains why computational and systems neuroscience needs new ideas from other areas—developmental biology in particular.
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Listen to the newest episode of “Synaptic,” in which So Hyun “Sophy” Kim talks about being mentored by renowned autism researcher Catherine Lord, how her grandparents fled North Korea after the Korean War, and her journey to study in the United States.
By Brady Huggett
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Light has hogged all the attention in chronobiology research—but now, in camel, goat and mole rat experiments, temperature takes the lead.
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Which neuroscience paper has had a profound impact on your career or made you rethink what you know about neuroscience? We’re looking for neuroscientists to contribute to our new “This Paper Changed My Life,” series. Interested? Email us: opinion@thetransmitter.org
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Increased excitatory and decreased inhibitory synapses in the prefrontal cortex of autistic people suggest broader impacts on brain function and connectivity.
By Giorgia Guglielmi
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Opioid receptors are integral to the formation of the enteric nervous system, the network of neurons that lines the gastrointestinal tract and makes up the largest part of the peripheral nervous system, according to a new study in zebrafish.
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Carolyn Elya, assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at Harvard University, discusses her work on a mind-bending fungus and what neuroscientists can learn from host-parasite interactions.
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Katie Bittner, Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social and their colleagues found that cellular learning can happen over longer timescales than Hebb’s rule predicts. How long should we wait to teach students about this phenomenon?
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Climber-scientist Kaspar Podgorski tracks neural computations inside the lab at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social and scales sheer rock faces outside—even after a life-changing fall.
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Is the falsifiability of a theory crucial for good science? @stephaniepalmer.bsky.social, @cianodonnell.bsky.social, @dlbarack.bsky.social debate the answer, moderated by @neurograce.bsky.social
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Genes that predispose people to autism account for a large portion of the neuronal and glial cell changes seen in those with the condition.
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The technique, which measures calcium currents as a proxy for neuronal firing, sometimes reports unusual and potentially misleading waves of activity in the hippocampus.
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A study on the peripheral nervous system’s role in breast cancer has been retracted after one of the authors was found to have fabricated data.
By @dalmeet.bsky.social
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Grace Lindsay
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This was a fun new style of science communication to participate in for me. You can read the back and forth between 3 (philosophically-inclined) scientists about the definition of "non-testable" theories and what role they can play in neuroscience, moderated by me!
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Funding for the development of open-source tools is on the rise, but support for their maintenance and dissemination, both crucial for their meaningful uptake, remains a major challenge.
By Daniel Aharoni
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This little-studied subregion, called the fasciola cinereum, could be a new surgical target for people with treatment-resistant epilepsy.
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A clear and actionable definition for the term "profound autism" could enhance research and improve care, Matthew Siegel says.
By Katie Moisse
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Studies by Nancy Kanwisher, Winrich Freiwald and Doris Tsao revealed how the brains of humans and other primates identify faces and helped establish an understanding of brain specialization.
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Paul-Antoine Libourel's accomplishments working with chinstrap penguins in the Antarctic highlight the importance of surgical skills in neuroscience.
By Yves Sciama
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Check out our first offering in the new series, "Breakout room," in which four researchers debate non-testable theories in neuroscience. Moderated by @neurograce.bsky.social and featuring @stephaniepalmer.bsky.social @cianodonnell.bsky.social, @dlbarack.bsky.social.
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@thetransmitter.bsky.social sat down with Russell Poldrack and @janw.bsky.social to discuss why scientists should destigmatize research errors—and how to handle them better.
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Self-proclaimed “neuroscientist, engagement manager and theater nerd,” Kaitlyn Casimo taps her broad training to engage the public and deliver “elevator pitch” workshops for @alleninstitute.bsky.social scientists.
By Alaina G. Levine
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George Musser
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Deep neural networks have become state-of-the-art in brain modeling. My story for @thetransmitter.bsky.social, edited by @kaozelli.bsky.social, features the work of @evfedorenko.bsky.social @lampinen.bsky.social @neurograce.bsky.social and many others. www.thetransmitter.org/neural-netwo... 🧪
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Scientists who study autism in lower-income countries are working to end practices that exploit or ignore collaborators and communities on the ground.
By Linda Nordling
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Applications are now open for our fall internship program! This is an excellent opportunity for a beginning science journalist to report and write about the fast-moving field of neuroscience. Apply now: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...
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Science writer George Musser explores questions around the emerging field of “neural systems understanding” and whether it can help explain the brain.
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@thetransmitter.bsky.social sits down with @dawnhunter.bsky.social to discuss what she learned from redrawing Santiago Ramón y Cajal's sketches.
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The National Medal of Science winner, Eve Marder explains why she built her career around the crustacean and what it was like attending high school in a Hudson River town. Listen now:
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Charles Glabe, on why he thinks Alzheimer’s researchers may need to rethink therapeutics that target amyloid plaques. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/alzheimers-d...
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Knowledge graphs could provide a foundation for the study of brain circuits. Read Hawrylycz's essay here: www.thetransmitter.org/defining-cel...
By Michael Hawrylycz
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Black In Neuro
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You can also check out Dr. Osman’s #BlackInNeuro seminar here!
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#BlackInSTEM #Neuroscience 🧪
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The neuroscientist and part-time fashion model opens up about the people who inspire her; her interest in science communication; and how she once ended up on a stage with Channing Tatum.
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The brain clears less waste during sleep than during wakefulness, a new study finds. But proponents of the glymphatic system theory call the study “misleading.”
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Patterns of brain connectivity shift during puberty in people with deletions in the 22q11.2 chromosomal region.
By Holly Barker
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A former anti-vaccination blogger has retracted his critique of a study that found no link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.
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New research is resurfacing an old idea about where the hallmark plaques of Alzheimer’s disease form: inside neurons.
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Knowledge graphs, widely used in the technology industry, could provide a foundation for the study of brain circuits.
By Michael Hawrylycz
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More neuroscience Ph.D. programs are starting to facilitate industry internships. Readers: What other ways are neuroscience graduate programs training students for careers outside academia?
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Two new devices aim to solve several problems with behavioral pain studies: reproducibility, accessibility and behavioral variability. How can your subfield reduce variability in data collection and analysis?
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Treating neurons and brain organoids with a modified form of CRISPR rescues the effects of pathogenic variants in two high-confidence autism-linked genes, according to a new preprint.
By Giorgia Guglielmi
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A new method suggests brain clearance slows during sleep and under anesthesia--directly contradicting the glymphatic system hypothesis, whose proponents take issue with the technique.
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Cannabis could become much easier to access, increasing the number of researchers who can work with it and the manufacturers who can produce it.
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New genetic analyses and behavioral assays have made the Chilean degu a viable model again, researchers say.
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Modern neuroscience needs a cultural shift to adopt new authorship practices.
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