The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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Remembering Annette Dolphin, who helped explain gabapentin’s effects
By
Michael Eisenstein
13 March 2026 | 7 min read
Revised statistical bar extracts less-common variants from autism genetics studies
By
Holly Barker
12 March 2026 | 4 min read
Today’s action potentials
The Simons Foundation is accepting applications for funding for autism and neuroscience conferences and courses. The deadline to apply is 15 April. (The Simons Foundation is The Transmitter’s parent organization.)
”Maybe we are missing meaningful information by applying methods that were developed for common traits like height or BMI. — ELEMI BREETVELT, ADJUNCT SCIENTIST AND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, SICKKIDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
A new preprint examines the language system in toddlers’ brains, finding that areas in the cortex respond to comphrehensible speech and display “adult-like” topography in children as young as 19 months.
Securing the academic pipeline amid uncertain U.S. funding climate
By
Lucina Q. Uddin
9 March 2026 | 5 min read
Neuro education
Let’s teach neuroscientists how to be thoughtful and fair reviewers
By
Elena Blanco-Suárez
6 March 2026 | 6 min read
Lack of reviewers threatens robustness of neuroscience literature
By
Jakob Voigts
2 March 2026 | 14 min read
Dendrites
Dendrites help neuroscientists see the forest for the trees
By
Justin O’Hare
27 February 2026 | 7 min read
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New autism committee positions itself as science-backed alternative to government group
By
Angie Voyles Askham
5 March 2026 | 5 min read
Astrocytes orchestrate oxytocin’s social effects in mice
By
Holly Barker
4 March 2026 | 5 min read
Community
Two primate centers drop ‘primate’ from their name
By
Calli McMurray
26 February 2026 | 5 min read
Oregon primate research center to negotiate with NIH on possible transition to sanctuary
By
Calli McMurray
9 February 2026 | 6 min read
Science and society
‘Peer review is our strength’: Q&A with Walter Koroshetz, former NINDS director
By
Angie Voyles Askham
27 January 2026 | 7 min read
How insights from network theory can boost interdisciplinary efforts
By
Emily Singer
23 February 2026 | 0 min watch
Frameshift: Raphe Bernier followed his heart out of academia, then made his way back again
By
Katie Moisse
20 February 2026 | 8 min read
Betting blind on AI and the scientific mind
By
Tim Requarth
2 February 2026 | 11 min read
Brain imaging
A brief history of precision self-scanning
When a researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious.
By
Lauren Gravitz
21 January 2026 | 13 min read
Neuroscience
The state of neuroscience in 2025: An overview
The Transmitter presents a portrait of the field through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding.
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The Transmitter
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15 November 2025 | 4 min read
This paper changed my life: Ishmail Abdus-Saboor on balancing the study of pain and pleasure
By
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
13 February 2026 | 7 min read
This paper changed my life: John Tuthill reflects on the subjectivity of selfhood
By
John Tuthill
12 January 2026 | 7 min read
The best of ‘this paper changed my life’ in 2025
By
The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 2 min read
Books
The Transmitter’s most-read neuroscience book excerpts of 2025
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The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 2 min read
Top news
The Transmitter’s top news articles of 2025
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The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 3 min read
Top quotes
Talking shop: The Transmitter’s top quotes of 2025
By
The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 4 min read
Frameshift
Frameshift: Shari Wiseman reflects on her pivot from science to publishing
By
Katie Moisse
15 December 2025 | 7 min read
Early-career researchers
The Transmitter ’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025
We recognize the outstanding achievements of 25 neuroscientists who stand to shape the field for years to come.
By
Francisco J. Rivera Rosario, Lauren Schneider
15 November 2025 | 23 min read
Community
The Transmitter’s New Lab Directory
By
Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
15 November 2025 | 21 min read
Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky
By
Claudia López Lloreda
16 October 2025 | 14 min read
Hippocampus builds reputation as ‘general-purpose statistical learning machine’
By
Natalia Mesa
10 March 2026 | 5 min read
Computational psychiatry needs systems neuroscience
By
Michael Halassa
13 January 2026 | 7 min read
Cracking the neural code for emotional states
By
Natalia Mesa
8 January 2026 | 8 min read
Remembering Adam Kampff, neuroscience educator and researcher
By
Lauren Schneider
24 December 2025 | 6 min read
‘The Fox, the Shrew, and You: How Brains Evolved,’ an excerpt
By
Rogier Mars
10 March 2026 | 6 min read
‘Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language,’ an excerpt
By
Gregory Hickok
2 December 2025 | 8 min read
‘Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain,’ an excerpt
By
Walter Glannon
11 November 2025 | 7 min read
The big picture
The visual system’s lingering mystery: Connecting neural activity and perception
Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools. I asked 10 neuroscientists what experimental and conceptual methods they think we’re missing.
By
Grace Lindsay
13 October 2025 | 24 min read
One year of FlyWire: How the resource is redefining Drosophila research
We asked nine neuroscientists how they are using FlyWire data in their labs, how the connectome has transformed the field and what new tools they would like to see in the future.
By
Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
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7 October 2025 | 17 min read