The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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‘Unprecedented’ dorsal root ganglion atlas captures 22 types of human sensory neurons
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Calli McMurray
23 December 2025 | 5 min read
Not playing around: Why neuroscience needs toy models
By
Marcus Ghosh
22 December 2025 | 6 min read
Psychedelics research in rodents has a behavior problem
By
Calli McMurray
19 December 2025 | 8 min read
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Today’s action potentials
Cognitive neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko discusses evidence for a large language model-like “language network” in the human brain, in an interview with Quanta Magazine.
”If our goal is to understand the brain, instead of creating maps the size of kingdoms, we should craft creative, concise toy models. — MARCUS GHOSH, RESEARCH FELLOW, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
In a Nature paper, Nicholas Hedger et al. map somatosensory and visual field tuning, finding that “somatotopic tuning explains responses throughout the entire dorsolateral visual system, revealing an array of somatotopic body maps that tile the cortical surface.”
AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor
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Russell Poldrack
16 December 2025 | 7 min read
How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs
By
Alex Kwan
15 December 2025 | 6 min read
Seeing the world as animals do: How to leverage generative AI for ecological neuroscience
By
Shahab Bakhtiari
8 December 2025 | 8 min read
Beyond the algorithmic oracle: Rethinking machine learning in behavioral neuroscience
By
Nedah Nemati, Matthew Whiteway
3 December 2025 | 7 min read
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Home makeover helps rats better express themselves: Q&A with Raven Hickson and Peter Kind
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Holly Barker
4 December 2025 | 0 min watch
Spectrum
Genetic profiles separate early, late autism diagnoses
By
Natalia Mesa
27 November 2025 | 5 min read
Community
Neurophysiology data-sharing system faces funding cliff
By
Lauren Schneider
17 November 2025 | 5 min read
Teaching
A change at the top of SfN as neuroscientists gather in San Diego
By
Natalia Mesa
16 November 2025 | 6 min read
Funding
Establishing a baseline: Trends in NIH neuroscience funding from 2008 to 2024
By
Natalia Mesa
15 November 2025 | 8 min read
Industry
How will the field’s relationship to industry change over the next decade? Will a larger neurotechnology sector emerge?
By
The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 10 min read
Frameshift: Shari Wiseman reflects on her pivot from science to publishing
By
Katie Moisse
15 December 2025 | 7 min read
How will neuroscience training need to change in the future?
By
The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 11 min read
Tracing neuroscience’s family tree to track its growth
By
Stephen David
15 November 2025 | 7 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
15 November 2025 | 4 min read
New questions around motor neurons and plasticity
A researcher’s theory hangs muscle degeneration on a broken neural circuit.
By
David Adam
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10 October 2025 | 9 min read
Publishing
What are the most-cited neuroscience papers from the past 30 years?
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The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 11 min read
Publishing
Putting 50 years of neuroscience on the map
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The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 3 min read
Community
The buzziest neuroscience papers of 2023, 2024
By
Calli McMurray, Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
15 November 2025 | 18 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
Psilocybin rewires specific mouse cortical networks in lasting ways
By
Siddhant Pusdekar
5 December 2025 | 0 min watch
Neuroscience
What are the fastest-growing areas in neuroscience?
By
The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 6 min read
Neuroscience needs engineers—for more reasons than you think
By
Timothy O’Leary
3 November 2025 | 8 min read
The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory
By
Xiao-Jing Wang
27 October 2025 | 8 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
‘How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past,’ an excerpt
By
Steve Ramirez
7 November 2025 | 9 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