Podcasts
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Synaptic
Exploring the people, the science and the challenges in neuroscience.
Recent Episodes:
![Illustrated portrait of Lin Tian.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/lin-tian-synaptic-1200-1024x683.webp)
Biosensors and being fearless with Lin Tian
Tian discusses protein function and structure, and the historic city in China where she was born.
![Illustrated portrait of Catherine Dulac.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CatherineDulac-1200-1024x692.webp)
Male and female brains, Proust, and Catherine Dulac
The 2021 Breakthrough Prize winner explains how reading widely shaped her worldview, and discusses the vomeronasal organ.
![Illustrated portrait of So Hyun “Sophy” Kim.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1200-sophy-kim-synaptic-1024x683.webp)
Diagnosing autism and teaching neurodiversity with So Hyun “Sophy” Kim
The Korea University professor on her path to autism research and studying in the United States.
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Audio research news
Your latest update from The Transmitter.
Recent Episodes:
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In updated U.S. autism bill, Congress calls for funding boost, expanded scope
The current Autism CARES Act sunsets in late September.
![A woman stands in front of two books that are open to reveal that they contain doorways from which blue light emanates.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Rust-Free-Will-200-1024x692.webp)
From reductionism to dynamical systems: How two books influenced my thinking across 30 years of neuroscience
Nicole Rust describes her career-changing literary journey of joy, free will and the evolution of a field.
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Neuroscience needs a career path for software engineers
Few institutions have mechanisms for the type of long-term positions that would best benefit the science.
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The Transmitter stories
Stories about developments in neuroscience.
Recent Episodes:
![Black-and-white illustrated portrait of Jonathan Green.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1200-jonathan-green-qa-autism-spectrum-stories.png)
‘Emergent and transactional’: How Jonathan Green is rethinking autism and interventions
The experienced clinician discusses writing his recent paper, and its reception in the field.
![Black and white watercolor-style portrait of Cheryl Dissanayake.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/1200-Dissanayake-autism-podcast.jpg)
The story of autism research in Australia: A conversation with Cheryl Dissanayake
With the help of a generous benefactor, autism research in Australia is gathering critical mass.
![Images of Marie-Eve Lefebvre and Punit Shah sitting at their laptops.](https://www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/844-new-journals-neurodiversity-gap-autism-final.png)
New journals seek to fill neurodiversity gap
The two journals, although differing in initial support, both realized the need for a publication focused exclusively on the neurodiverse experience.