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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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5:52

Sleep doesn't just consolidate memories; it actively...

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2025/05/06

The rapid eye movement (REM) phase preserves newly acquired memories, but deeper non-REM sleep helps to adapt and update them, according to “heroic” day-long electrode recordings in rats.

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8:13

Thinking about thinking: AI offers theoretical...

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2025/05/05

We need a new conceptual framework for understanding cognitive functions—particularly how globally distributed brain states are formed and maintained for hours.

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6:41

Mitochondrial 'landscape' shifts across human brain

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2025/04/25

Evolutionarily newer regions sport mitochondria with a higher capacity for energy production than older regions, according to the first detailed map of the organelles in a tissue slice, adding to mounting evidence that the brain features a metabolic gradient.

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6:37

This paper changed my life: Shane Liddelow on two...

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2025/04/23

A game-changing cell culture method developed in Ben Barres’ lab completely transformed the way we study astrocytes and helped me build a career studying their reactive substates.

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8:28

What birds can teach us about the 'biological truth'...

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2025/04/22

Part of our job as educators is to give students a deeper understanding of the true diversity of sex and gender in the natural world.

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9:02

Noninvasive technologies can map and target human...

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2025/04/21

But to fully grasp the tools’ potential, we need to better understand how electric and magnetic fields interact with the brain.

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6:46

During decision-making, brain shows multiple distinct...

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2025/04/18

Person-to-person variability in brain activity might represent meaningful differences in cognitive processes, rather than random noise.

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8:24

Smell studies often use unnaturally high odor...

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2025/04/16

It’s time to fashion olfactory neuroscience stimuli based on odor concentrations in the wild, say study investigators Elizabeth Hong and Matt Wachowiak.

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8:03

Functional MRI can do more than you think

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2025/04/14

Recent technological advances provide a range of new and different information about brain physiology. But taking full advantage of these gains depends on collaboration between engineers and neuroscientists.

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6:16

Inhibitory cells work in concert to orchestrate...

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2025/04/09

A cubic millimeter of brain tissue, meticulously sectioned, stained and scrutinized over the past seven years, reveals in stunning detail the role of inhibitory interneurons in brain structure and function.

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3:49

U.S. human data repositories 'under review' for...

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2025/04/09

Researchers associated with the repositories received an email from the U.S. National Institutes of Health in March noting that they must comply with a 20 January executive order from President Trump that recognizes only two sexes: male and female.

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8:50

Exclusive: NIH nixes funds for several pre- and...

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2025/04/08

Many of the axed grants support scientists from underrepresented communities.

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8:03

To make a meaningful contribution to neuroscience,...

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2025/04/08

We need to develop research programs that link phenomena across levels, from genes and molecules to cells, circuits, networks and behavior.

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9:11

In vivo veritas: Xenotransplantation can help us...

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2025/04/07

Transplanted cells offer insight into human-specific properties, such as a lengthy cortical development and sensitivity to neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease.

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7:28

Keep sex as a biological variable: Don't let NIH...

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2025/03/25

Even in the absence of any formal instruction to do so, we should continue to hold our ourselves and our neuroscience colleagues accountable for SABV practices.

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9:30

Single-neuron recordings are helping to unravel...

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2025/03/14

As this work begins to bear fruit, researchers “are becoming less afraid to ask very difficult questions that you can uniquely ask in people.”

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3:26

U.S. BRAIN Initiative set to lose $81 million this year

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2025/03/11

A government spending bill, which was approved today by the House of Representatives and heads next to a Senate vote, allocates 20 percent less funding for the program than last year.

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6:04

New tools help make neuroimaging accessible to more...

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2025/03/05

A lack of programming experience can derail experimental aspirations. But custom software packages, web-based applications and video tutorials make functional MRI concepts easier to grasp.

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6:16

About-faces in U.S. federal science funding put...

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2025/02/12

“It’s hard to know what’s real,” says neuroscientist Josh Dubnau after a dizzying week in which diversity-related grant applications were pulled from study sections only to be reinstated five days later, among other reversals.

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5:43

Age-related brain changes in mice strike hypothalamus...

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2025/01/16

Neuronal and non-neuronal cells throughout the brain also express genes—particularly those related to neuronal structure and immune function—differently in aged mice, according to a new atlas.

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