The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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”The Y chromosome is often left out of genetic discovery studies. We really have not interrogated it in [autism] studies very much. — MATTHEW OETJENS, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HUMAN GENETICS, GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER’S AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE INSTITUTE
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How to be a multidisciplinary neuroscientist
From bench to bot: How important is prompt engineering?
Imagining the ultimate systems neuroscience paper
To keep or not to keep: Neurophysiology’s data dilemma
Premature declarations on animal consciousness hinder progress
A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.
Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?
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.
From bench to bot: Does AI really make you a more efficient writer?
From bench to bot: Boost your writing with AI personas
From bench to bot: How to use AI to structure your writing
Martín Giurfa y la idea de hogar
El investigador de la cognición de insectos ha hecho su trabajo en varios continentes, pero Argentina nunca está lejos de su mente.
At the end of the earth with Paul-Antoine Libourel
Timothy Ryan on his pivotal switch from studying particle physics to decoding synaptic transmission
Biosensors and being fearless with Lin Tian
The S-index Challenge: Develop a metric to quantify data-sharing success
A README for open neuroscience
Designing an open-source microscope
What makes memories last—dynamic ensembles or static synapses?
Teasing out how different subfields conceptualize central terms might help move this long-standing debate forward. I asked eight scientists to weigh in.
What are mechanisms? Unpacking the term is key to progress in neuroscience
Mechanism is a common and powerful concept, invoked in grant calls and publication guidelines. But scientists use it in different ways, making it difficult to clarify standards in the field. We asked nine scientists to weigh in.