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The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
Assembloids illuminate circuit-level changes linked to autism, neurodevelopment
Rajesh Rao reflects on predictive brains, neural interfaces and the future of human intelligence
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Explaining ‘the largest unexplained number in brain science’: Q&A with Markus Meister and Jieyu Zheng
‘Sacred objects’ display discredits Golgi and Ramón y Cajal’s rivalry: Q&A with curator Daniel Colón Ramos
Today’s action potentials
”That was a surprise. Both of them pretty much have the same phenotype, but it turned out the mechanisms are different, and the consequences on the cortex are different. — SERGIU PAŞCA, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Assembloids illuminate circuit-level changes linked to autism, neurodevelopment
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Open-access neuroscience comes to the classroom: Q&A with Liz Kirby
An eye for science: Q&A with Bryan W. Jones
What are recurrent networks doing in the brain?
Solving intelligence requires new research and funding models
Imagining the ultimate systems neuroscience paper
A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.
Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?
Putting a bright idea to the test
A surprising wave of findings in mice suggests that light and sound flickering at 40 hertz clears the brain of Alzheimer’s-disease-linked plaques. Several companies are hoping to prove it works in people.
From bench to bot: How important is prompt engineering?
From bench to bot: Does AI really make you a more efficient writer?
From bench to bot: Boost your writing with AI personas
Sniffing out the mysteries of olfaction
A background in physics, and his own curiosity, have helped Dmitry Rinberg tackle the complexities of the neuroscience of smell.
Timothy Ryan on his pivotal switch from studying particle physics to decoding synaptic transmission
Biosensors and being fearless with Lin Tian
To keep or not to keep: Neurophysiology’s data dilemma
The S-index Challenge: Develop a metric to quantify data-sharing success
A README for open neuroscience
What makes memories last—dynamic ensembles or static synapses?
Teasing out how different subfields conceptualize central terms might help move this long-standing debate forward. I asked eight scientists to weigh in.
What are mechanisms? Unpacking the term is key to progress in neuroscience
Mechanism is a common and powerful concept, invoked in grant calls and publication guidelines. But scientists use it in different ways, making it difficult to clarify standards in the field. We asked nine scientists to weigh in.