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Can neuroscientists decode memories solely from a map of synaptic connections?
AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor
How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs
Today’s action potentials
”Though ‘vibe coding,’ referring to the generation of code by AI assistants with little human oversight, may be useful and often successful for building websites, it’s almost certainly a recipe for disaster when it comes to scientific programming. — RUSSELL POLDRACK, COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENTIST, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Seeing the world as animals do: How to leverage generative AI for ecological neuroscience
Beyond the algorithmic oracle: Rethinking machine learning in behavioral neuroscience
Tracing neuroscience’s family tree to track its growth
Home makeover helps rats better express themselves: Q&A with Raven Hickson and Peter Kind
Genetic profiles separate early, late autism diagnoses
Neurophysiology data-sharing system faces funding cliff
A change at the top of SfN as neuroscientists gather in San Diego
Establishing a baseline: Trends in NIH neuroscience funding from 2008 to 2024
How will the field’s relationship to industry change over the next decade? Will a larger neurotechnology sector emerge?
Frameshift: Shari Wiseman reflects on her pivot from science to publishing
How will neuroscience training need to change in the future?
The Transmitter ’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025
The state of neuroscience in 2025: An overview
The Transmitter presents a portrait of the field through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding.
New questions around motor neurons and plasticity
A researcher’s theory hangs muscle degeneration on a broken neural circuit.
What are the most-cited neuroscience papers from the past 30 years?
Putting 50 years of neuroscience on the map
The buzziest neuroscience papers of 2023, 2024
The Transmitter’s New Lab Directory
Learn about neuroscience labs launched in the past two years, plus a few opening their doors in 2026.
Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky
Psilocybin rewires specific mouse cortical networks in lasting ways
What are the fastest-growing areas in neuroscience?
Neuroscience needs engineers—for more reasons than you think
The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory
‘Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language,’ an excerpt
‘Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain,’ an excerpt
‘How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past,’ an excerpt
The visual system’s lingering mystery: Connecting neural activity and perception
Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools. I asked 10 neuroscientists what experimental and conceptual methods they think we’re missing.
One year of FlyWire: How the resource is redefining Drosophila research
We asked nine neuroscientists how they are using FlyWire data in their labs, how the connectome has transformed the field and what new tools they would like to see in the future.