The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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The spectrum goes multidimensional in search of autism subtypes
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Katie Moisse
14 August 2025 | 9 min listen
Exclusive: Harvard University lays off fly database team
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Claudia López Lloreda
13 August 2025 | 5 min listen
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Brain Inspired
Chris Rozell explains how brain stimulation and AI are helping to treat mental disorders
This paper changed my life
This paper changed my life: Abigail Person on birdsong, feed-forward circuits and convergent computations
Today’s action potentials
”We all know that categoric boundaries are porous and inaccurate. But we have to try to categorize people and understand the complexity, because that’s how we make progress. — MATTHEW SIEGEL, CHIEF OF CLINICAL ENTERPRISE, PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT AT BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
“Altered translation elongation contributes to key hallmarks of aging in the killifish brain”
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Domenico Di Fraia et al. in Science
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Marco Bertamini, David Brainard, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Roland Fleming, Pascal Fries, Wilson S Geisler, Robbe Goris, Sheng He, Tadashi Isa, Tomas Knapen, Jan Koenderink, Larry Maloney, Keith May, Marcello Rosa, Jonathan Victor
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The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, A…
Marco Bertamini, David Brainard, Peter Dayan, Andrea van Doorn, Roland Fleming, Pascal Fries, Wilson S Geisler, Robbe Goris, Sheng He, Tadashi Isa, Tomas Knapen, Jan Koenderink, Larry Maloney, Keith May, Marcello Rosa, Jonathan Victor
The challenge of defining a neural population
By
Mark Humphries
11 August 2025 | 9 min listen
Neural population-based approaches have opened new windows into neural computations and behavior
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Matthew Perich
4 August 2025 | 8 min listen
Consciousness
Babies, bees and bots: On the hunt for markers of consciousness
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Tim Bayne
30 July 2025 | 6 min read
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The spectrum goes multidimensional in search of autism subtypes
By
Katie Moisse
14 August 2025 | 9 min listen
Fact sheet: Autism prevalence
Explore our coverage of what the science says about diagnostic changes over time, the role of genes and the environment, and more.
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Funding
Quantifying funding sources across neuroscience labs
By
Claudia López Lloreda
18 July 2025 | 1 min read
Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning
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John Tuthill
14 July 2025 | 9 min listen
Funding
NIH cuts quash $323 million for neuroscience research and training
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Claudia López Lloreda
16 June 2025 | 8 min read
Spectrum
NIH autism database announcement raises concerns among researchers
By
Angie Voyles Askham
5 June 2025 | 5 min read
What U.S. science stands to lose without international graduate students and postdoctoral researchers
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Joshua R. Sanes
28 July 2025 | 7 min listen
How to build a truly global computational neuroscience community
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Megan Peters, Bradley Roberts
23 July 2025 | 9 min listen
Cephalopods, vision’s next frontier
For decades, scientists have been teased by the strange but inaccessible cephalopod visual system. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough from a lab in Oregon, data are finally coming straight from the octopus brain.
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Calli McMurray
27 May 2025 | 14 min listen
Academia
The last two-author neuroscience paper?
Author lists on papers have ballooned, and it’s getting hard to discern contribution.
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Lydia Denworth
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25 February 2025 | 3 min read
From bench to bot
Keeping it personal: How to preserve your voice when using AI
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Tim Requarth
3 March 2025 | 12 min read
From bench to bot
From bench to bot: How important is prompt engineering?
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Tim Requarth
28 October 2024 | 8 min read
From bench to bot
From bench to bot: Does AI really make you a more efficient writer?
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Tim Requarth
3 September 2024 | 11 min read
The big idea with Diego Bohórquez
His theories around the neuropod have challenged the boundaries of classic ideas regarding gut-brain communication.
By
Sydney Wyatt
20 June 2025 | 14 min listen
Neuroscience
Neuroscientist Gerry Fischbach, in his own words
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Ivan Oransky
30 May 2025 | 2 min read
Amina Abubakar translates autism research and care for Kenya
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Ruth Kadide Keah
29 May 2025 | 8 min listen
Body state, sensory signals commingle in mouse whisker cortex
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Claudia López Lloreda
6 August 2025 | 6 min listen
Behavioral neuroscience
‘Bird Brains and Behavior,’ an excerpt
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Andrew Iwaniuk, Georg Striedter
5 August 2025 | 9 min read
Systems and circuit neuroscience need an evolutionary perspective
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Karl Farrow, Katja Reinhard
16 July 2025 | 7 min listen
Alzheimer’s disease
Everything, everywhere, all at once: Inside the chaos of Alzheimer’s disease
By
Michael A. Yassa
16 June 2025 | 7 min read
‘Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That,’ an excerpt
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Nicole Rust
10 June 2025 | 9 min read
‘Natural Neuroscience: Toward a Systems Neuroscience of Natural Behaviors,’ an excerpt
By
Nachum Ulanovsky
15 April 2025 | 9 min read
‘Bioethics and Brains: A Disciplined and Principled Neuroethics,’ an excerpt
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James Giordano, John Shook
14 February 2025 | 6 min read
NeuroAI
Accepting “the bitter lesson” and embracing the brain’s complexity
To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, training large models on vast amounts of information. We asked nine experts on computational neuroscience and neural data analysis to weigh in.
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Eva Dyer, Blake Richards
26 March 2025 | 8 min read
The big picture
To keep or not to keep: Neurophysiology’s data dilemma
An exponential growth in data size presents neuroscientists with a significant challenge: Should we be keeping all raw data or focusing on processed datasets? I asked experimentalists and theorists for their thoughts.
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Nima Dehghani
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25 November 2024 | 5 min read