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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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8:31

Lack of reviewers threatens robustness of...

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2026/03/02

Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias peer review.

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5:09

Post-infection immune conflict alters fetal...

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2026/02/26

The immune-conflict between dam and fetus could help explain sex differences in neurodevelopmental conditions.

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7:50

Is there a neuroscientist in the House?

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2026/02/25

Sam Wang, a neuroscientist running for the U.S. House of Representatives, has been considering American democracy for decades.

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4:51

Infant visual system categorizes common objects by 2...

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2026/02/24

Brain activity patterns in the ventral visual cortex appear to distinguish images across 12 categories, including birds and trees, longitudinal functional MRI scans suggest.

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7:20

Frameshift: Raphe Bernier followed his heart out of...

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2026/02/20

After a clinical research career, an interlude at Apple and four months in early retirement, Raphe Bernier found joy in teaching.

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4:59

Organoid study reveals shared brain pathways across...

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2026/02/19

The genetic variants initially affect brain development in unique ways, but over time they converge on common molecular pathways.

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6:32

Neuroscience needs single-synapse studies

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2026/02/17

Studying individual synapses has the potential to help neuroscientists develop new theories, better understand brain disorders and reevaluate 70 years of work on synaptic transmission plasticity.

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8:57

Neuroscience has a species problem

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2026/02/16

If our field is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought.

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5:26

Oligodendrocytes need mechanical cues to myelinate...

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2026/02/11

Without the mechanosensor TMEM63A, the cells cannot deposit the appropriate amount of insulation, according to a new study.

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5:26

Aging neurons outsource garbage disposal, clog microglia

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2026/02/10

Degradation-resistant proteins pass from neurons to glial cells in a process that may spread protein clumps around the brain, according to a study in mice.

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6:39

Oregon primate research center to negotiate with NIH...

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2026/02/09

The board of directors at Oregon Health & Science University, which runs the primate center, voted unanimously in favor of the move.

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6:39

From genes to dynamics: Examining brain cell types in...

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2026/02/09

Defining brain cell types is no longer a matter of classification alone, but of embedding their genetic identities within the dynamical organization of population activity.

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5:19

Cerebellum responds to language like cortical areas

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2026/02/06

One of four language-responsive cerebellar regions may encode meaningful information, much like the cortical language network in the left hemisphere, according to a new study.

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6:50

Neuro's ark: Understanding fast foraging with...

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2026/02/04

“MacArthur genius” Kenneth Catania outlined the physiology behind the moles’ stellar foraging skills two decades ago. Next, he wants to better characterize their food-seeking behavior.

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6:18

NIH scraps policy that classified basic research in...

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2026/02/03

The policy aimed to increase the transparency of research in humans but created “a bureaucratic nightmare” for basic neuroscientists.

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4:34

Largest leucovorin-autism trial retracted

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2026/02/03

A reanalysis of the data revealed errors and failed to replicate the results.

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5:33

Cell atlas cracks open 'black box' of mammalian...

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2026/02/03

The atlas details the genetics, birth dates and gene-expression signatures of roughly 150 neuron subtypes in the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord.

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12:16

Betting blind on AI and the scientific mind

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2026/02/02

If the struggle to articulate an idea is part of how you come to understand it, then tools that bypass that struggle might degrade your capacity for the kind of thinking that matters most for actual discovery.

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5:53

Viral remnant in chimpanzees silences brain gene...

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2026/01/27

The retroviral insert appears to inadvertently switch off a gene involved in brain development.

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9:35

Why emotion research is stuck-and how to move it forward

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2026/01/26

Studying how organisms infer indirect threats and understand changing contexts can establish a common framework that bridges species and levels of analysis.

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