The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
Featured
Largest leucovorin-autism trial retracted
By
Claudia López Lloreda
3 February 2026 | 4 min read
Policy
NIH scraps policy that classified basic research in people as clinical trials
By
Calli McMurray
3 February 2026 | 5 min read
Neuro’s ark
Neuro’s ark: Understanding fast foraging with star-nosed moles
By
Lauren Schneider
4 February 2026 | 7 min read
Today’s action potentials
A New York Times investigation describes how a group of fringe researchers obtained more than 20,000 children’s genetic data from the National Institutes of Health and used the information to promote eugenicist theories.
”People have looked for 25 years to find what diversifies the dorsal horn. — ARIEL LEVINE, SENIOR INVESTIGATOR, U.S. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE
The Cajal Conference is taking place in Cádiz, Spain, 15-17 April. The focus of the conference is “novel insights into brain energy metabolism in health and disease.” The registration deadline is 9 April.
Artificial intelligence
Betting blind on AI and the scientific mind
By
Tim Requarth
2 February 2026 | 11 min read
Why emotion research is stuck—and how to move it forward
By
Joshua P. Johansen
26 January 2026 | 0 min watch
Computational psychiatry needs systems neuroscience
By
Michael Halassa
13 January 2026 | 7 min read
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‘Tour de force’ study flags fount of interneurons in human brain
By
Holly Barker
29 January 2026 | 4 min read
Spectrum
Prenatal viral injections prime primate brain for study
By
Angie Voyles Askham
22 January 2026 | 5 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
Policy
BRAIN Initiative researchers ‘dream big’ amid shifts in leadership, funding
By
Claudia López Lloreda
23 January 2026 | 6 min read
Funding
Neuroscience, BRAIN Initiative gain budget in ‘bad’ NIH funding bill
By
Angie Voyles Askham
22 January 2026 | 4 min read
Science and society
Neuroscience’s leaders, legacies and rising stars of 2025
By
The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 2 min read
Frameshift: At a biotech firm, Ubadah Sabbagh embraces the expansive world outside academia
By
Katie Moisse
20 January 2026 | 7 min read
Talking shop: The Transmitter’s top quotes of 2025
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The Transmitter
24 December 2025 | 4 min read
Frameshift: Shari Wiseman reflects on her pivot from science to publishing
By
Katie Moisse
15 December 2025 | 7 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.
By
The Transmitter
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15 November 2025 | 4 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
Teaching
A change at the top of SfN as neuroscientists gather in San Diego
By
Natalia Mesa
16 November 2025 | 6 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
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
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
‘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