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My biggest hope is that people will see the promise of this as a demonstration of a pathway to future studies, including future clinical trials. — TONY CHARMAN

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NEW RESEARCH
“A sensorimotor-association axis of thalamocortical connection development”
By Valerie J. Sydnor, et al. in bioRxiv
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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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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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Can an emerging field called ‘neural systems understanding’ explain the brain?

This mashup of neuroscience, artificial intelligence and even linguistics and philosophy of mind aims to crack the deep question of what "understanding" is, however un-brain-like its models may be.

By George Musser
5 June 2024 | 21 min listen
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