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The Transmitter

Your latest update from The Transmitter, an essential resource for the neuroscience community, dedicated to helping scientists at all career stages stay current and build connections. Read more: https://www.thetransmitter.org/

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13:32

Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky

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2025/10/16

With an eye toward realism, the neuroscientist, who has a new study about bats out today, creates microcosms of the natural world to understand animal behavior.

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6:01

Gene-activity map of developing brain reveals new...

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2025/10/16

Boys and girls may be vulnerable to different genetic changes, which could help explain why the condition is more common in boys despite linked variants appearing more often in girls.

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6:21

Engrams in amygdala lean on astrocytes to solidify...

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2025/10/15

Disrupting the astrocyte-neuronal dynamic in mice destabilizes their memory of fear conditioning.

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5:49

Ant olfactory neurons reveal new 'transcriptional...

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2025/10/14

A protective screen of spurious transcriptional activity enables each olfactory neuron to express exactly one out of hundreds of olfactory receptors.

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10:37

New questions around motor neurons and plasticity

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2025/10/10

A researcher’s theory hangs muscle degeneration on a broken neural circuit.

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18:58

One year of FlyWire: How the resource is redefining...

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2025/10/07

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.

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7:07

Neurons fuel lung tumors that have spread to brain

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2025/10/06

Functional synapses between brain cells and cancer cells are key to the metastatic growth, according to new findings from two independent teams.

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7:13

Why we need basic science to better understand the...

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2025/10/01

Despite the many psychedelics clinical trials underway, there is still much we don’t know about how these drugs work. Preclinical studies represent our best viable avenue to answer these lingering questions.

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7:55

Reproducibility is a team sport: Lessons from a...

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2025/09/29

Building reproducible systems across labs is possible, even in large-scale neuroscience projects. You just need rigor, collaboration and the willingness to look your own practices dead in the eye.

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5:15

Local circuit loops within body control fly behavior,...

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2025/09/24

The mapping, which traces how the central nervous system interacts with the rest of the body, challenges the idea that behavior control is centralized.

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24:55

Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience: Embracing...

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2025/09/22

The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.

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9:28

Autism experts question HHS statements on Tylenol,...

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2025/09/22

Concerns include the administration’s reliance on weak, correlational evidence rather than established research.

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4:43

This paper changed my life: Dan Goodman on a paper...

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2025/09/17

Friedemann Zenke’s 2019 paper, and its related coding tutorial SpyTorch, made it possible to apply modern machine learning to spiking neural networks. The innovation reinvigorated the field.

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5:44

Paper by memory institute director garners expression...

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2025/09/16

The notice, posted last week in Nature, follows a recent string of corrections to at least three other articles by Li-Huei Tsai’s lab.

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5:27

First nerve-net connectome shows how evolutionarily...

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2025/09/16

The map of a comb jelly’s aboral nerve net, which helps the animal orient and position itself within the water column, reveals a unique system for sensing the world and coordinating movement.

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6:27

International scientific collaboration is more...

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2025/09/15

These partnerships accelerate neuroscience by enabling researchers to share resources and expertise, as well as generate more relevant and reproducible results. But new federal funding restrictions in the United States are putting such collaborations in jeopardy.

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5:03

Sensory gatekeeper drives seizures, autism-like...

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2025/09/11

The new work, in mice missing the autism-linked gene CNTNAP2, suggests a mechanism to help explain the overlap between epilepsy and autism.

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6:44

Mitochondria set 'ancient' metabolic thermostat for...

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2025/09/09

During waking hours, a specialized set of sleep neurons in the fly brain accumulates reactive oxygen species, which eventually trigger sleep to clean up and repair the damage they do.

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7:34

Building the future of neuroscience at HBCUs

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2025/09/08

Black In Neuro is launching a new program to help historically Black colleges and universities advance neuroscience research and education, focusing on cross-institutional collaboration, joint curriculum development and improved mentoring initiatives.

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36:33

Emotion research has a communication conundrum

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2025/09/05

In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13 experts to chime in.

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