The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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Seeing the world as animals do: How to leverage generative AI for ecological neuroscience
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Shahab Bakhtiari
8 December 2025 | 8 min read
Psilocybin rewires specific mouse cortical networks in lasting ways
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Siddhant Pusdekar
5 December 2025 | 0 min watch
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Behavioral neuroscience
Beyond the algorithmic oracle: Rethinking machine learning in behavioral neuroscience
Brain Inspired
Tatiana Engel explains how to connect high-dimensional neural circuitry with low-dimensional cognitive functions
Today’s action potentials
In The New Yorker, Larissa MacFarquhar writes about aphantasia—the inability to see mental images—and its connection to episodic memory, among other brain functions.
”The neuroscience community must engage with this technology now, collaborating, fine-tuning and guiding it toward scientific relevance. — SHAHAB BAKHTIARI, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL, ASSOCIATE ACADEMIC MEMBER, MILA-QUEBEC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE
Marta Snapyan et al. identify ultrastructural differences between synapses formed by adult- and early-born interneurons in the mouse olfactory bulb.
Beyond the algorithmic oracle: Rethinking machine learning in behavioral neuroscience
By
Nedah Nemati, Matthew Whiteway
3 December 2025 | 7 min read
Craft and careers
Tracing neuroscience’s family tree to track its growth
By
Stephen David
15 November 2025 | 7 min read
Publishing
Putting 50 years of neuroscience on the map
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The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 3 min read
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Home makeover helps rats better express themselves: Q&A with Raven Hickson and Peter Kind
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Holly Barker
4 December 2025 | 0 min watch
Spectrum
Genetic profiles separate early, late autism diagnoses
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Natalia Mesa
27 November 2025 | 5 min read
Community
Neurophysiology data-sharing system faces funding cliff
By
Lauren Schneider
17 November 2025 | 5 min read
Teaching
A change at the top of SfN as neuroscientists gather in San Diego
By
Natalia Mesa
16 November 2025 | 6 min read
Funding
Establishing a baseline: Trends in NIH neuroscience funding from 2008 to 2024
By
Natalia Mesa
15 November 2025 | 8 min read
Industry
How will the field’s relationship to industry change over the next decade? Will a larger neurotechnology sector emerge?
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The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 10 min read
How will neuroscience training need to change in the future?
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The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 11 min read
The Transmitter ’s Rising Stars of Neuroscience 2025
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Francisco J. Rivera Rosario, Lauren Schneider
15 November 2025 | 23 min read
How have funding cuts affected early-career scientists’ futures?
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The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 9 min read
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.
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The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 4 min read
New questions around motor neurons and plasticity
A researcher’s theory hangs muscle degeneration on a broken neural circuit.
By
David Adam
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10 October 2025 | 9 min read
Publishing
What are the most-cited neuroscience papers from the past 30 years?
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The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 11 min read
Community
The buzziest neuroscience papers of 2023, 2024
By
Calli McMurray, Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
15 November 2025 | 18 min read
Spectrum
Going against the gut: Q&A with Kevin Mitchell on the autism-microbiome theory
By
Lauren Schenkman
13 November 2025 | 7 min read
Retraction
Journal retracts two papers evaluating ADHD interventions
By
Calli McMurray
6 November 2025 | 5 min read
Community
The Transmitter’s New Lab Directory
Learn about neuroscience labs launched in the past two years, plus a few opening their doors in 2026.
By
Francisco J. Rivera Rosario
15 November 2025 | 21 min read
Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky
By
Claudia López Lloreda
16 October 2025 | 14 min read
Neuroscience
What are the fastest-growing areas in neuroscience?
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The Transmitter
15 November 2025 | 6 min read
Neuroscience needs engineers—for more reasons than you think
By
Timothy O’Leary
3 November 2025 | 8 min read
The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory
By
Xiao-Jing Wang
27 October 2025 | 8 min read
The big picture
The visual system’s lingering mystery: Connecting neural activity and perception
By
Grace Lindsay
13 October 2025 | 24 min read
‘Wired for Words: The Neural Architecture of Language,’ an excerpt
By
Gregory Hickok
2 December 2025 | 8 min read
‘Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain,’ an excerpt
By
Walter Glannon
11 November 2025 | 7 min read
‘How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past,’ an excerpt
By
Steve Ramirez
7 November 2025 | 9 min read
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
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
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22 September 2025 | 20 min read