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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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6:22

Frameshift: How Mia Thomaidou tapped a fellowship to...

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2026/04/21

As a fellow at the Dana Foundation, she merged two familiar passions and discovered a new one: science philanthropy.

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7:26

To understand decision-making, we need to truly...

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2026/04/20

Complex, multidimensional tasks that unfold over time could reveal how different brain areas work together to support decisions.

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5:40

Nearly 400 compounds affect behaviors tied to...

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2026/04/16

Estropipate, paclitaxel and levocarnitine altered behaviors tied to SCN2A and DYRK1A variants specifically, a new open-source platform revealed.

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5:33

Arousal neurons' activity explains brain's blood flow...

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2026/04/15

The findings could influence how researchers interpret signals from techniques that use blood flow as a surrogate for neuronal activity.

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5:44

This paper changed my life: Erin Calipari ponders the...

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2026/04/14

A 1960s study by Kelleher and Morse found that lever pressing in squirrel monkeys depended not on whether they received a reward or shock, but on the rules of the task. This taught Calipari to think deeply about factors that influence how behavior is generated and maintained.

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9:34

Why neural foundation models work, and what they...

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2026/04/13

These models can partly generalize across species, brain regions and tasks, suggesting that a set of machine-learnable rules govern neural population activity. But will we be able to understand them?

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6:11

Error equation predicts brain's ability to generalize

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2026/04/10

Four statistical measurements of neural network geometry capture how well brains and artificial networks use what they already know to solve new problems, a study suggests.

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6:33

Embrace complexity to improve the translatability of...

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2026/04/09

Researchers must learn to view heterogeneity as an essential feature of the systems they study and a central consideration in experimental design, not a variable to control for or reduce.

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5:50

Frameshift: How Caitlin Vander Weele made science...

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2026/03/19

Her favorite part of research was talking about it. So she left academia and turned that passion into a successful company.

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5:02

Signs of aging vary across brain cells

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2026/03/18

Senescence presents differently depending on the cell type, toxic trigger and neighboring cells, two new studies find.

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5:39

Neuroscientists challenge NIH's proposed human-data...

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2026/03/17

The changes would restrict the sharing of human neuroimaging, transcriptomic and genetic data.

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6:39

Large-scale neuroimaging datasets often lack...

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2026/03/16

Addressing this gap will require collecting widespread data on pregnancy, menopause and other life events women experience—and could bring us closer to the “holy grail” of linking brain and behavior.

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7:59

Remembering Annette Dolphin, who helped explain...

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2026/03/13

The “intuitive” neuropharmacologist pushed against the status quo.

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5:11

Revised statistical bar extracts less-common variants...

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2026/03/12

Adjusting genetic analyses could help plug autism’s heritability gap, according to a new preprint.

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7:00

This paper changed my life: Talia Lerner reflects on...

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2026/03/11

In a 2011 Neuron study, Stephan Lammel and his colleagues showed that dopamine neurons with different projections have different physiological properties. The work inspired Lerner to think about how to challenge widely held assumptions in the field.

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5:51

Hippocampus builds reputation as 'general-purpose...

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2026/03/10

New cross-species findings may help settle a long-standing debate about whether the hippocampus is required for passive learning.

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4:56

Securing the academic pipeline amid uncertain U.S....

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2026/03/09

Finding creative ways to keep early-career researchers in academia—for example, through part-time roles—can help the field weather the storm.

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5:09

Shifting neural code powers speech comprehension

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2026/03/05

Dynamic coding helps explain how the brain processes multiple features of speech—from the smallest units of sounds to full sentences—simultaneously.

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6:11

Astrocytes orchestrate oxytocin's social effects in mice

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2026/03/04

The cells amplify oxytocin—and may be responsible for sex differences in social behavior, two preprints find.

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6:41

Neuro's ark: Spying on the secret sensory world of ticks

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2026/03/03

Carola Städele, a self-proclaimed “tick magnet,” studies the arachnids’ sensory neurobiology—in other words, how these tiny parasites zero in on their next meal.

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