The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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Astrocytes star in memory storage, recall
Monkeys’ amygdala cells adapt to social status
Mouse housing temperatures can cook experimental outcomes
Today’s action potentials
”These and many other examples illustrate that neuroscientists need to pay greater attention to the temperature effect. — CAITLIN JAMES, ELIZABETH REPASKY, SANDRA SEXTON
Microglia’s pruning function called into question
Upcoming Online Seminars
From bench to bot: How important is prompt engineering?
How neuroscience comics add KA-POW! to the field: Q&A with Kanaka Rajan
Brains, biases and amyloid beta: Why the female brain deserves a closer look in Alzheimer’s research
What makes memories last—dynamic ensembles or static synapses?
A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.
Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?
Putting a bright idea to the test
A surprising wave of findings in mice suggests that light and sound flickering at 40 hertz clears the brain of Alzheimer’s-disease-linked plaques. Several companies are hoping to prove it works in people.
From bench to bot: Does AI really make you a more efficient writer?
From bench to bot: Boost your writing with AI personas
From bench to bot: How to use AI to structure your writing
Martín Giurfa y la idea de hogar
El investigador de la cognición de insectos ha hecho su trabajo en varios continentes, pero Argentina nunca está lejos de su mente.
At the end of the earth with Paul-Antoine Libourel
Timothy Ryan on his pivotal switch from studying particle physics to decoding synaptic transmission
Biosensors and being fearless with Lin Tian
The S-index Challenge: Develop a metric to quantify data-sharing success
A README for open neuroscience
Designing an open-source microscope
What are mechanisms? Unpacking the term is key to progress in neuroscience
Mechanism is a common and powerful concept, invoked in grant calls and publication guidelines. But scientists use it in different ways, making it difficult to clarify standards in the field. We asked nine scientists to weigh in.
What, if anything, makes mood fundamentally different from memory?
To better understand mood disorders—and to develop more effective treatments—should we target the brain, the mind, the environment or all three?