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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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13:42

The big idea with Diego Bohórquez

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2025/06/20

His theories around the neuropod have challenged the boundaries of classic ideas regarding gut-brain communication.

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5:21

Genetic background steers PTEN syndrome traits

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2025/06/19

People with the syndrome, caused by variants in the gene PTEN, often have autism or cancer, or both, but it depends on the genetic diversity encoded in the components of distinct cell signaling pathways, according to a new study.

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5:15

Star-responsive neurons steer moths' long-distance...

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2025/06/18

Cells in the bogong moth brain respond to astral landmarks to orient the insects in the direction they need to go.

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5:25

This paper changed my life: Bradley Dickerson on how...

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2025/06/17

This classic paper by zoologist John Pringle describes the haltere—a small structure in flies that plays a crucial role in flight control. It taught me to think about circuits and behavior as greater than the sum of their parts.

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5:53

Gazing at a location from afar activates place cells...

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2025/06/13

The results help explain how the hippocampus can recall information about a place without an animal physically revisiting it.

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4:54

Some dopamine neurons signal default behaviors to...

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2025/06/11

Movement-sensing neurons that target the striatum influence a mouse’s choice of action by favoring routine.

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8:43

On the importance of reading (just not too much)

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2025/06/09

The real fun of being a neuroscientist, and maybe the key to asking and answering new questions, is to think big and take intellectual risks.

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6:52

How developing neurons simplify their search for a...

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2025/06/06

Streamlining the problem from 3D to 1D eases the expedition—a strategy the study investigators deployed to rewire an olfactory circuit in flies.

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4:31

'Understudied secret' in brain dampens nicotine drive...

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2025/06/04

The interpeduncular nucleus produces an aversion to nicotine, even at low doses, and helps moderate how rewarding mice find the drug.

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6:20

Rethinking how neural activity sculpts critical periods

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2025/06/03

New findings on the role of neural activity in developing circuits are challenging our prior notions about the rules that govern critical periods.

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6:38

To understand the brain as a network organ, we must...

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2025/06/02

Human neuroscience research has largely overlooked this spatial scale—which bridges cells and brain areas. But new advances in functional MRI technology are changing that.

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8:04

Amina Abubakar translates autism research and care...

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2025/05/29

First an educator and now an internationally recognized researcher, the Kenyan psychologist is changing autism science and services in sub-Saharan Africa.

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5:42

Learning in living mice defies classic synaptic...

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2025/05/28

Donald Hebb’s theory—memorably summarized as “cells that fire together, wire together”—does not explain the shifting hippocampal connections in mice learning to navigate a virtual environment, according to a new study.

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14:23

Cephalopods, vision's next frontier

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2025/05/27

For decades, scientists have been teased by the strange but inaccessible cephalopod visual system. Now, thanks to a technological breakthrough from a lab in Oregon, data are finally coming straight from the octopus brain.

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10:05

Escaping groupthink: What animals' behavioral quirks...

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2025/05/23

Neuroscientists have long ignored the variability in animals’ behavioral responses in favor of studying differences across groups. But work on the brain differences that underlie that variability is beginning to pay off.

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5:30

Immune cells block pain in female mice only

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2025/05/22

Regulatory T cells in the spinal meninges release endogenous opioids in a sex-specific manner, new work shows.

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8:31

The BabyLM Challenge: In search of more efficient...

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2025/05/19

A competition that trains language models on relatively small datasets of words, closer in size to what a child hears up to age 13, seeks solutions to some of the major challenges of today’s large language models.

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6:12

Reporter's notebook: Highlights from INSAR 2025

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2025/05/15

The annual meeting brought autism researchers, advocates and clinicians to Seattle to discuss the latest research, including attempts to define subgroups, a potential new CHD8 macaque model and life expectancy gaps.

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4:53

NIDA shutters diversity fellowship program, axes...

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2025/05/14

It’s unclear if the cancellation at the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse extends to the fellowships awarded by other institutes within the National Institutes of Health.

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17:57

'We still exist': How four neuroscience advocacy...

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2025/05/14

Trainees from underrepresented backgrounds are losing pillars of support in the current funding climate. Grassroots mentorship organizations are stepping in to continue championing early-career researchers.

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