The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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Immune cell interlopers breach—and repair—brain barrier in mice
Expanding set of viral tools targets almost any brain cell type
Premature declarations on animal consciousness hinder progress
Today’s action potentials
”You really simplify the paradigm for doing these types of studies. — JONATHAN TING, ASSOCIATE INVESTIGATOR AT THE ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE
#neuroskyence Does anyone know the slice order for a Siemens 3T Prisma? The timings that I've been given make 0 sense to me. The manual says they start at the bottom, interleaved acquiring even numbers first. But mine start in the middle, acquiring odd numbers first, not in a predictable pattern
— Huw Swanborough (@huwroscience.bsky.social) November 18, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Newfound gene network controls long-range connections between emotional, cognitive brain areas
Exploring the connection between autism and sleep
Upcoming Online Seminars
How to be a multidisciplinary neuroscientist
From bench to bot: How important is prompt engineering?
NeuroAI: A field born from the symbiosis between neuroscience, AI
What the brain can teach artificial neural networks
Mouse housing temperatures can cook experimental outcomes
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.