The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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Neuromechanical models deepen our understanding of animal motor control
Dimensionality—neuroscience’s red herring?
— MATT SMEAR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON READ MORE
Reimagining Mexico’s brain bank
Autism-linked variants rewire protein networks
The State of Neuroscience in Latin America
Through interviews with dozens of Latin American neuroscientists, The Transmitter explores how researchers in six countries—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay—conduct high-quality research in the face of numerous obstacles.
Climate neuroscience needs ‘integration’ and ‘guided’ research
Five years after a groundbreaking paper, can a young field move beyond piecemeal studies?
Mind over metrics: How can we tell if two brains (or AI models) are alike?
Making waves: Sleep-like brain activity in awake mice lowers sleep need, boosts memory
Five new neuroscience books, and other notable titles from 2026
‘The Brain, In Theory,’ an excerpt
David Sussillo on persistence, luck and the bonds between life and work
Models at the speed of thought: How AI coding is reshaping theoretical neuroscience
Agentic coding makes it possible to specify a neuroscience model in hours instead of months. Seven neuroscientists weigh in on what that tectonic change may bring to the field.
Trading places: What happens when neuroscience turns into machine learning, and machine learning turns into neuroscience?
Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction, and machine learning with causal explanation, with each field adopting methods from the other. I asked eight experts to weigh in on what we stand to learn from this exchange.