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It’s past time to stop using the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test
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Wendy C. Higgins, Robert M. Ross
16 May 2024 | 8 min read
Autism research is becoming more diverse but not yet more global
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Petrus de Vries
14 May 2024 | 5 min read
Crowdsourcing to curb aggression in autism: Q&A with Matthew Goodwin
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Daisy Yuhas
2 May 2024 | 6 min read
Where do cell states end and cell types begin?
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Anne E. West
22 April 2024 | 6 min read
To improve big data, we need small-scale human imaging studies
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Emily S. Finn
15 April 2024 | 7 min read
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The value of math and spatial learning with Loren Frank
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Brady Huggett
1 April 2024 | 61 min listen
Setting up a frog colony and pair bonding with Lauren O’Connell
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Brady Huggett
1 March 2024 | 62 min listen
Boost your writing with AI personas
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Tim Requarth
5 April 2024 | 10 min read
From bench to bot: How to use AI to structure your writing
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Tim Requarth
8 January 2024 | 11 min read
From bench to bot: How to use AI tools to convert notes into a draft
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Tim Requarth
27 November 2023 | 10 min read
Larry Young built bridges with his social neuroscience research
Known for his work bringing oxytocin studies to the mainstream, Young died unexpectedly last month.
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Angie Voyles Askham
10 April 2024 | 7 min read
The legacy of William Catterall, ‘father of ion channels’
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Calli McMurray
12 March 2024 | 7 min read
Maiken Nedergaard’s power of disruption
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Emily Sohn
26 February 2024 | 24 min read
Unleashing the power of DIY innovation in behavioral neuroscience
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Alexxai Kravitz, Mark Laubach
2 April 2024 | 6 min read
Pooling data points to new potential treatment for spinal cord injury
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Adam Ferguson, Hannah Radabaugh, Abel Torres-Espin
4 March 2024 | 7 min read
How scuba diving helped me embrace open science
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Ted Satterthwaite
19 February 2024 | 7 min read
Making cancer nervous
Nerve cells in the brain and throughout the body can turbocharge tumor growth — a finding that not only expands conventional ideas about the nervous system but points to novel therapeutic targets for a range of malignancies.
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Sarah DeWeerdt
13 November 2023 | 22 min read
Uncertainty and excitement surround one company’s cell therapy for epilepsy
After 10 years of work, Neurona may have the data to quiet its skeptics. But its ongoing clinical trial will be the ultimate test.
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Angie Voyles Askham
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5 October 2023 | 19 min read
The creative brain—an edited excerpt from ‘Essays on Art and Science’
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Eric Kandel
19 March 2024 | 8 min read
Mathematical brains — an excerpt from ‘Seeing the Mind’
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Stanislas Dehaene
28 November 2023 | 12 min read
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Alaina G. Levine
12 April 2024 | 6 min read
The Transmitter Launch: An early-career researcher’s extracurriculars capture beauty in the lab
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Angie Voyles Askham, Rebecca Horne
8 March 2024 | 4 min read
The origins of COSYNE: Building a community
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Anthony Zador
27 February 2024 | 7 min read
