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Dopamine

Reconstructing dopamine’s link to reward

By Angie Voyles Askham
13 September 2024 | 18 min read
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Spectrum

Parasite-based tool delivers MECP2 and other proteins to neurons

By Giorgia Guglielmi
12 September 2024 | 4 min read
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Brain Inspired Microphone

Kim Stachenfeld on the dance between neuroscience and artificial intelligence

By Paul Middlebrooks
11 September 2024 | 92 min listen

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Craft and careers

Should I work with these people? A guide to collaboration

Open neuroscience and data-sharing

A README for open neuroscience

Physiology

Cell population in brainstem coordinates cough, new study shows

Ketamine

Ketamine targets lateral habenula, setting off cascade of antidepressant effects

Spectrum

In updated U.S. autism bill, Congress calls for funding boost, expanded scope

From bench to bot

From bench to bot: Does AI really make you a more efficient writer?

Synaptic

Biosensors and being fearless with Lin Tian

Spatial cognition and navigation

‘Place cells’ help guide freely swimming zebrafish larvae

Retraction

Second paper from lab of Nobel Prize winner to be retracted

Neuroanatomy

Neurons’ spikes may convey their whereabouts

Olfaction

Consciously smelling—an edited excerpt from ‘Stinking Philosophy! Smell Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness’

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WHAT WE ARE READING
“Thought for food: the endothermic brain hypothesis”
By Mathias Osvath et al. in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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“It’s a crazy project,” but delivering drugs across the blood-brain barrier “required a crazy solution.” — LILACH SHEINER

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UPCOMING SEMINAR
September
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NEW YORK GENOME CENTER
Neuroscience Lecture with Ai Yamamoto: Understanding Intracellular Logistics to Gain Insight into Neurodegenerative Disease
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Research image of toxoplasma gondii showing cysts it creates as well as the MECP2 protein that it can deliver to neurons.
Spectrum

Parasite-based tool delivers MECP2 and other proteins to neurons

By Giorgia Guglielmi
12 September 2024 | 4 min read
Spectrum

PPP2R5D gene; social-communication intervention in infants; autism and suicide

Spectrum

Task swap prompts data do-over for autism auditory perception study

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Spectrum Microphone

In updated U.S. autism bill, Congress calls for funding boost, expanded scope

By Rachel Zamzow
5 September 2024 | 5 min listen
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Upcoming Online Seminars

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Sep
20
2024
Kelly Aine | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Brain Health
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Sep
23
2024
Lukas Huber | University of Bern
Comparing supervised learning dynamics: Deep neural networks match human data efficiency but show a generalisation lag
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26
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Britta Engelhardt | Theodor Kocher Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland
How the brain barriers ensure CNSimmune privilege
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Perspectives

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Dopamine

Dopamine and the need for alternative theories

By Vijay Mohan K. Namboodiri
13 September 2024 | 7 min read
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Dopamine

Does a new theory of dopamine replace the classic model?

By Naoshige Uchida
13 September 2024 | 8 min read
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Craft and careers

Should I work with these people? A guide to collaboration

By Kevin Bender
10 September 2024 | 7 min read
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Open neuroscience and data-sharing

A README for open neuroscience

By Samuel Gershman
9 September 2024 | 5 min read
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Synaptic

Illustrated portrait of Lin Tian.
Synaptic Microphone

Biosensors and being fearless with Lin Tian

By Brady Huggett
1 September 2024 | 61 min listen
Illustrated portrait of Catherine Dulac.
Synaptic Microphone

Male and female brains, Proust, and Catherine Dulac

By Brady Huggett
1 August 2024 | 81 min listen
Illustrated portrait of So Hyun “Sophy” Kim.
Synaptic Microphone

Diagnosing autism and teaching neurodiversity with So Hyun “Sophy” Kim

By Brady Huggett
1 July 2024 | 67 min listen
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From bench to bot

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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
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From bench to bot

From bench to bot: Boost your writing with AI personas

By Tim Requarth
5 April 2024 | 10 min read
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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
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Profiles

Portrait of insect-cognition researcher Martin Giurfa.
Neuroethology

Martín Giurfa y la idea de hogar

By Gina Jiménez
20 August 2024 | 15 min read
Portrait of insect-cognition researcher Martin Giurfa.
Neuroethology Microphone

Martin Giurfa’s concept of home

By Gina Jiménez
31 July 2024 | 15 min listen
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Sleep Microphone

At the end of the earth with Paul-Antoine Libourel

By Yves Sciama
11 June 2024 | 18 min listen
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Open neuroscience and data-sharing

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Open neuroscience and data-sharing

Neuroscience graduate students deserve comprehensive data-literacy education

By Letisha R. Wyatt
15 July 2024 | 6 min read
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Open neuroscience and data-sharing

Designing an open-source microscope

By Daniel Aharoni
17 June 2024 | 6 min read
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Open neuroscience and data-sharing

Neuroscience needs a research-video archive

By Robert Froemke
6 May 2024 | 6 min read
Open neuroscience and data-sharing

Unleashing the power of DIY innovation in behavioral neuroscience

By Alexxai Kravitz, Mark Laubach
2 April 2024 | 0 min watch
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Features

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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
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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
6 June 2024 | 11 min read
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Books

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Consciousness

How did consciousness evolve? An excerpt from ‘A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds: The Evolution of Life and Consciousness’

By Francisco Aboitiz
26 August 2024 | 12 min read
Illustration of six different noses smelling in six different abstract landscapes.
Olfaction

Consciously smelling—an edited excerpt from ‘Stinking Philosophy! Smell Perception, Cognition, and Consciousness’

By Benjamin Young
26 August 2024 | 12 min read
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Reviews

Six new neuroscience books for fall—plus five titles you may have missed

By Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
26 August 2024 | 6 min read
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Craft and careers

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Craft and careers

Crafting tales of science with Theanne Griffith

By Angie Voyles Askham
26 August 2024 | 8 min read
A woman stands in front of two books that are open to reveal that they contain doorways from which blue light emanates.
Summer reading Microphone

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
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Craft and careers Microphone

Neuroscience needs a career path for software engineers

By Gaëlle Chapuis, Olivier Winter
19 August 2024 | 7 min listen
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Craft and careers

Addressing the lack of infrastructure and training that stymies African neuroscience

By Mahmoud Bukar Maina
29 July 2024 | 6 min read
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