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Addiction

Cocaine, morphine commandeer neurons normally activated by food, water in mice

By Lauren Schenkman
8 May 2024 | 5 min read
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Sensory systems

Decoding flies’ motor control with acrobat-scientist Eugenia Chiappe

By Elissa Welle
7 May 2024 | 6 min read
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Open neuroscience and data-sharing

Neuroscience needs a research-video archive

By Robert Froemke
6 May 2024 | 6 min read

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DEI

Inclusivity committee disbands in protest at Canadian neuroscience institute

Craft and careers

How to explore your scientific values and develop a vision for your field

Funding

What neuroscientists should know—and what they can do—about changes to BRAIN initiative funding

Spectrum

Crowdsourcing to curb aggression in autism: Q&A with Matthew Goodwin

Synaptic

Brain connectivity and letting the data speak with Emily Finn

Alzheimer’s disease

Carol Jennings, whose family’s genetics informed amyloid cascade hypothesis, dies at 70

Craft and careers

‘These are not alternative careers’: More neuroscience Ph.D. programs start to facilitate industry internships

Peripheral nervous system

The question of regeneration—an excerpt from ‘Periphery: How Your Nervous System Predicts and Protects Against Disease’

Spectrum

RNA drug corrects calcium signaling in chimeric model of Timothy syndrome

Community

How to use race and ethnicity data responsibly in neuroscience research

Animal models

New genetic tools usher amphibian neuroscience research into modern age

Today’s action potentials

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“Control of working memory by phase–amplitude coupling of human hippocampal neurons”
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Spectrum

Crowdsourcing to curb aggression in autism: Q&A with Matthew Goodwin

By Daisy Yuhas
2 May 2024 | 6 min read
Spectrum

X chromosome inactivation; motor difficulties in 16p11.2 duplication and deletion; oligodendroglia

Spectrum

Reporting bias widespread in early-childhood autism intervention trials

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RNA drug corrects calcium signaling in chimeric model of Timothy syndrome

By Katie Moisse
24 April 2024 | 5 min read

Perspectives

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Where do cell states end and cell types begin?

By Anne E. West
22 April 2024 | 6 min read
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To improve big data, we need small-scale human imaging studies

By Emily S. Finn
15 April 2024 | 7 min read
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What, if anything, makes mood fundamentally different from memory?

By Nicole Rust
8 April 2024 | 8 min read
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Synaptic

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Synaptic

The value of math and spatial learning with Loren Frank

By Brady Huggett
1 April 2024 | 61 min listen
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Synaptic

Setting up a frog colony and pair bonding with Lauren O’Connell

By Brady Huggett
1 March 2024 | 62 min listen
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Synaptic

Being uncomfortable and PKMzeta with André Fenton

By Brady Huggett
1 February 2024 | 80 min listen

From bench to bot

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Boost your writing with AI personas

By Tim Requarth
5 April 2024 | 10 min read
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From bench to bot: How to use AI to structure your writing

By Tim Requarth
8 January 2024 | 11 min read
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From bench to bot: How to use AI tools to convert notes into a draft

By Tim Requarth
27 November 2023 | 10 min read
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Profiles

Larry Young built bridges with his social neuroscience research

By Angie Voyles Askham
10 April 2024 | 7 min read
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The legacy of William Catterall, ‘father of ion channels’

By Calli McMurray
12 March 2024 | 7 min read
Maiken Nedergaard, Britta Engelhardt and Christer Betsholtz on a floating rock island with university facilities and abstract shapes.

Maiken Nedergaard’s power of disruption

By Emily Sohn
26 February 2024 | 24 min read
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Open neuroscience and data-sharing

Unleashing the power of DIY innovation in behavioral neuroscience

By Alexxai Kravitz, Mark Laubach
2 April 2024 | 6 min read
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Pooling data points to new potential treatment for spinal cord injury

By Adam Ferguson, Hannah Radabaugh, Abel Torres-Espin
4 March 2024 | 7 min read
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How scuba diving helped me embrace open science

By Ted Satterthwaite
19 February 2024 | 7 min read
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We found a major flaw in a scientific reagent used in thousands of neuroscience experiments — and we’re trying to fix it.

By Mona AlQazzaz, Aled Edwards
5 February 2024 | 6 min read
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Features

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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.

By Sarah DeWeerdt
13 November 2023 | 22 min read
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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.

By Angie Voyles Askham
5 October 2023 | 19 min read
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Books

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Art in science

The creative brain—an edited excerpt from ‘Essays on Art and Science’

By Eric Kandel
19 March 2024 | 8 min read
Cognitive neuroscience

Mathematical brains — an excerpt from ‘Seeing the Mind’

By Stanislas Dehaene
28 November 2023 | 12 min read
Science in art

Unmasking Alzheimer’s disease

By Rebecca Horne
13 November 2023 | 2 min read
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Craft and careers

The Transmitter Launch: Networking in neuroscience—five ways to find people

By Alaina G. Levine
12 April 2024 | 6 min read
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The Transmitter Launch: An early-career researcher’s extracurriculars capture beauty in the lab

By Angie Voyles Askham, Rebecca Horne
8 March 2024 | 4 min read
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The origins of COSYNE: Building a community

By Anthony Zador
27 February 2024 | 7 min read
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