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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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8:26

The 1,000 neuron challenge

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2026/01/05

A competition to design small, efficient neural models might provide new insight into real brains—and perhaps unite disparate modeling efforts.

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6:33

Remembering Adam Kampff, neuroscience educator and...

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2025/12/24

Kampff’s do-it-yourself approach inspired a generation of neuroscientists.

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5:09

'Unprecedented' dorsal root ganglion atlas captures...

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2025/12/23

The atlas also offers up molecular and cellular targets for new pain therapies.

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6:29

Not playing around: Why neuroscience needs toy models

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2025/12/22

Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs.

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8:31

Psychedelics research in rodents has a behavior problem

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2025/12/19

Simple behavioral assays—originally validated as drug-screening tools—fall short in studies that aim to unpack the psychedelic mechanism of action, so some behavioral neuroscientists are developing more nuanced tasks.

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4:00

New organoid atlas unveils four neurodevelopmental...

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2025/12/17

The comprehensive resource details data on microcephaly, polymicrogyria, epilepsy and intellectual disability from 352 people.

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7:25

AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain...

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2025/12/16

These guidelines can help researchers ensure the integrity of their work while accelerating progress on important scientific questions.

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7:49

How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs

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2025/12/15

A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research.

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4:02

Waves of calcium activity dictate eye structure in flies

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2025/12/12

Synchronized signals in non-neuronal retinal cells draw the tiny compartments of a fruit fly’s compound eye into alignment during pupal development.

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7:52

What is the future of organoid and assembloid...

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2025/12/10

Four experts weigh in on how to establish ethical guardrails for research on the 3D neuron clusters as these models become ever more complex.

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10:00

Seeing the world as animals do: How to leverage...

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2025/12/08

Generative artificial intelligence will offer a new way to see, simulate and hypothesize about how animals experience their worlds. In doing so, it could help bridge the long-standing gap between neural function and behavior.

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6:15

Exclusive: Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly...

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2025/12/08

The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.

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5:41

Psilocybin rewires specific mouse cortical networks...

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2025/12/05

Neuronal activity induced by the psychedelic drug strengthens inputs from sensory brain areas and weakens cortico-cortical recurrent loops.

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8:08

Beyond the algorithmic oracle: Rethinking machine...

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2025/12/03

Machine learning should not be a replacement for human judgment but rather help us embrace the various assumptions and interpretations that shape behavioral research.

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5:39

This paper changed my life: Nancy Padilla-Coreano on...

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2025/12/01

The 2013 Nature paper by Mattia Rigotti and his colleagues revealed how mixed selectivity neurons—cells that are not selectively tuned to a stimulus—play a key role in cognition.

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5:44

Aging as adaptation: Learning the brain's recipe for...

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2025/11/14

Some age-related changes in the brain and in behavior are not solely the result of cognitive decline but rather part of a larger adaptive process.

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4:55

Noninvasive method lifts curtain on...

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2025/11/14

Cerebrospinal fluid shows brain-region-specific dynamics, a new high-resolution MRI approach reveals.

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7:13

Perimenopause: An important-and...

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2025/11/12

Many well-known perimenopause symptoms arise in the brain, but we still know little about the specific mechanisms at play. More research—in both animals and humans—is essential.

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6:43

Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future

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2025/11/10

Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put the future of such advances at risk.

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5:36

Our searchable repository of useful research can...

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2025/11/05

Called U.S. Public Research Benefits, the database showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format.

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