The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives

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“NEUROSCIENCE FOR ALL”
Anastasiia E. Caangay et al. share their experience organizing public neuroscience outreach events and offer resources and examples to facilitate similar programs.
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EPIGENOMIC PROFILING
A new paper in Nature Neuroscience investigates how epigenetic memory underpins transcriptional heterogeneity in the central nervous system.
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LINKING PATHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
Douglas A. Ruff et al. “identify disruption of neuronal population organization as a defining feature of early-stage ADRD [Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias] and frame early dysfunction as a disorder of coordinated population activity.”
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Brain imaging

A brief history of precision self-scanning

When a researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious.

By Lauren Gravitz
21 January 2026 | 13 min read
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Neuroscience

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.

By The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 4 min read
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Early-career researchers

The Transmitter ’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025

By Francisco J. Rivera Rosario, Lauren Schneider
15 November 2025 | 23 min read
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The big picture

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.

By Grace Lindsay
13 October 2025 | 24 min read
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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.

By Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
7 October 2025 | 17 min read
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