The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky
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Claudia López Lloreda
16 October 2025 | 14 min listen
Gene-activity map of developing brain reveals new clues about autism’s sex bias
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Giorgia Guglielmi
16 October 2025 | 6 min listen
Engrams in amygdala lean on astrocytes to solidify memories
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Lauren Schneider
15 October 2025 | 6 min listen
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Sensory perception
Ant olfactory neurons reveal new ‘transcriptional shield’ mechanism of gene regulation
Brain Inspired
Nikolay Kukushkin discusses his book, ‘One Hand Clapping: Unraveling the Mystery of the Human Mind’
Today’s action potentials
Rapid Response Neuroscience & Society Bridge Funding Program from the Dana Foundation
”It’s really hard to study [astrocytes] because they’re not electrically active. They sort of keep their secrets, so we don’t really know what to measure. — BENJAMIN DENEEN, PROFESSOR OF NEUROSURGERY, BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
“Astrocytes functionally integrate multiple synapses via specialized leaflet domains”
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Lucas Benoit et al. in Cell
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The big picture
The visual system’s lingering mystery: Connecting neural activity and perception
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Grace Lindsay
13 October 2025 | 5 min read
One year of FlyWire: How the resource is redefining Drosophila research
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Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
7 October 2025 | 19 min listen
Why we need basic science to better understand the neurobiology of psychedelics
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Devin Effinger, Melissa Herman
1 October 2025 | 7 min listen
Reproducibility is a team sport: Lessons from a large-scale collaboration
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Anne Churchland
29 September 2025 | 8 min listen
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Gene-activity map of developing brain reveals new clues about autism’s sex bias
By
Giorgia Guglielmi
16 October 2025 | 6 min listen
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Boosting SCN2A expression reduces seizures in mice
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Charles Q. Choi
9 October 2025 | 5 min read
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Autism researchers ‘pleasantly surprised’ by list of NIH data project grantees, despite initial concerns
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Calli McMurray
2 October 2025 | 10 min read
Funding
NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years
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Natalia Mesa
29 September 2025 | 4 min read
International scientific collaboration is more necessary—yet more challenging—than ever
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Lucina Q. Uddin
15 September 2025 | 6 min listen
Building the future of neuroscience at HBCUs
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Jheannelle Johnson
8 September 2025 | 8 min listen
Should neuroscientists ‘vibe code’?
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Benjamin Dichter
25 August 2025 | 9 min listen
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
New questions around motor neurons and plasticity
A researcher’s theory hangs muscle degeneration on a broken neural circuit.
By
David Adam
10 October 2025 | 11 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
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27 May 2025 | 14 min listen
This paper changed my life: Dan Goodman on a paper that reignited the field of spiking neural networks
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Dan Goodman
17 September 2025 | 5 min listen
This paper changed my life: Victoria Abraira on a tasty link between circuits and behavior
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Victoria Abraira
22 July 2025 | 5 min listen
From bench to bot: Why AI-powered writing may not deliver on its promise
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Tim Requarth
2 September 2025 | 8 min listen
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
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Exclusive: Who is Richard Frye, the neurologist who researches and advocates for leucovorin as an autism treatment?
Frye has led two placebo-controlled trials of the folate supplement in autistic people; the first was suspended by regulators, and the other has yet to be published.
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Brendan Borrell
1 October 2025 | 11 min read
Motor behavior
Facial movements telegraph cognition in mice
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Lauren Schneider
30 September 2025 | 0 min watch
Michael Breakspear and Mac Shine explain how brain processing changes across neural population scales
By
Paul Middlebrooks
10 September 2025 | 1 min read
Decision-making
Everything everywhere all at once: Decision-making signals engage entire brain
By
Claudia López Lloreda
3 September 2025 | 5 min read
The Transmitter’s reading list: Six upcoming neuroscience books, plus notable titles in 2025
By
Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
27 August 2025 | 10 min listen
‘What Is Intelligence?’: An excerpt
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas
23 September 2025 | 9 min read
‘Bird Brains and Behavior,’ an excerpt
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Andrew Iwaniuk, Georg Striedter
5 August 2025 | 9 min read
‘Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That,’ an excerpt
By
Nicole Rust
10 June 2025 | 9 min read
Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience: Embracing complex causality
The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.
By
Luiz Pessoa
22 September 2025 | 25 min listen
Emotion research has a communication conundrum
In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13 experts to chime in.
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Nicole Rust
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5 September 2025 | 37 min listen