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Should I stay (and eat) or should I go? How the brain balances hunger with competing drives
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Giorgia Guglielmi
11 October 2024 | 8 min read
Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels discuss how AI has shaped their neuroscience research
By
Paul Middlebrooks
11 October 2024 | 80 min listen
The case for redefining ‘theory of mind’: Q&A with François Quesque
By
Lauren Schenkman
10 October 2024 | 7 min read
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Open neuroscience and data-sharing
The S-index Challenge: Develop a metric to quantify data-sharing success
Brain Inspired
Kenneth Harris and Andreas Tolias explain how artificial intelligence has informed their neuroscience research
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Untangling biological threads from autism’s phenotypic patchwork reveals four core subtypes
Today’s action potentials
“Rethinking ethics in interdisciplinary and big data-driven neuroscience projects”
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Bernd Carsten Stahl et al. in Nature Mental Health
“Innate face-selectivity in the brain of young domestic chicks”
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Dmitry Kobylkov et al. in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The case for redefining ‘theory of mind’: Q&A with François Quesque
By
Lauren Schenkman
10 October 2024 | 7 min read
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Erin Grant | Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London
Use case determines the validity of neural systems comparisons
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Belinda Pletzer | Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg (PLUS), Austria
Characterizing hormone sensitivity along the menstrual cycle and during hormonal contraceptive use
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Hardy Rideout | Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens
LRRK2 – a master regulator of
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signaling, vesicular trafficking, and cell death pathways
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The big picture
What makes memories last—dynamic ensembles or static synapses?
By
Jason Shepherd
14 October 2024 | 7 min read
Craft and careers
How neuroscience comics add KA-POW! to the field: Q&A with Kanaka Rajan
By
Olivia Gieger
9 October 2024 | 7 min read
The S-index Challenge: Develop a metric to quantify data-sharing success
By
Loren Frank
8 October 2024 | 6 min listen
The big picture
What are mechanisms? Unpacking the term is key to progress in neuroscience
By
Dani S. Bassett, Lauren N. Ross
7 October 2024 | 5 min read
Timothy Ryan on his pivotal switch from studying particle physics to decoding synaptic transmission
By
Brady Huggett
1 October 2024 | 70 min listen
Biosensors and being fearless with Lin Tian
By
Brady Huggett
1 September 2024 | 62 min listen
Male and female brains, Proust, and Catherine Dulac
By
Brady Huggett
1 August 2024 | 81 min listen
From bench to bot
From bench to bot: Does AI really make you a more efficient writer?
By
Tim Requarth
3 September 2024 | 11 min read
From bench to bot
From bench to bot: Boost your writing with AI personas
By
Tim Requarth
5 April 2024 | 10 min read
From bench to bot
From bench to bot: How to use AI to structure your writing
By
Tim Requarth
8 January 2024 | 11 min read
Neuroethology
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.
By
Gina Jiménez
20 August 2024 | 15 min read
At the end of the earth with Paul-Antoine Libourel
By
Yves Sciama
11 June 2024 | 18 min listen
Open neuroscience and data-sharing
A README for open neuroscience
By
Samuel Gershman
9 September 2024 | 5 min read
Open neuroscience and data-sharing
Designing an open-source microscope
By
Daniel Aharoni
17 June 2024 | 6 min read
Open neuroscience and data-sharing
Neuroscience needs a research-video archive
By
Robert Froemke
6 May 2024 | 6 min read
A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.
Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?
By
Calli McMurray
4 October 2024 | 27 min listen
Brain stimulation
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.
By
Shaena Montanari
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21 August 2024 | 11 min read
Consciously smelling—an edited excerpt from ‘Stinking Philosophy! Smell Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness’
By
Benjamin Young
26 August 2024 | 12 min read
Six new neuroscience books for fall—plus five titles you may have missed
By
Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
26 August 2024 | 6 min read
Craft and careers
Tips to navigate SfN as a trainee
By
Nancy Padilla-Coreano
30 September 2024 | 5 min read
Craft and careers
Seeing research through a new lens: Q&A with Pei Yuan Zhang
By
Olivia Gieger
20 September 2024 | 7 min read
Craft and careers
Should I work with these people? A guide to collaboration
By
Kevin Bender
10 September 2024 | 7 min read
Craft and careers
Crafting tales of science with Theanne Griffith
By
Angie Voyles Askham
26 August 2024 | 8 min read