The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
Featured
A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.
By
Calli McMurray
4 October 2024 | 26 min read
Untangling biological threads from autism’s phenotypic patchwork reveals four core subtypes
By
Holly Barker
3 October 2024 | 5 min read
Neural manifolds: Latest buzzword or pathway to understand the brain?
By
Matthew Perich
2 October 2024 | 8 min read
Today’s action potentials
Untangling biological threads from autism’s phenotypic patchwork reveals four core subtypes
By
Holly Barker
3 October 2024 | 5 min read
Spectrum
The legacy of Steve Silberman and his book, ‘NeuroTribes’
By
Emily Willingham
26 September 2024 | 8 min read
Upcoming Online Seminars
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Hamid Karimi-Rouzbahani | The University of Queensland
Localisation of Seizure Onset Zone in Epilepsy Using Time Series Analysis of Intracranial Data
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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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Craft and careers
Tips to navigate SfN as a trainee
By
Nancy Padilla-Coreano
30 September 2024 | 5 min read
neural coding
Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience
By
Mark Humphries
23 September 2024 | 7 min read
Dopamine
Dopamine and the need for alternative theories
By
Vijay Mohan K. Namboodiri
13 September 2024 | 7 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
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
21 August 2024 | 11 min read
Spectrum
The perils of parachute research
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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6 June 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
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
From reductionism to dynamical systems: How two books influenced my thinking across 30 years of neuroscience
By
Nicole Rust
26 August 2024 | 4 min listen