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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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9:19

Should neuroscientists 'vibe code'?

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2025/08/25

Researchers are developing software entirely through natural language conversations with advanced large language models. The trend is transforming how research gets done—but it also presents new challenges for evaluating the outcomes.

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7:38

Adult human cortex does not 'reorganize' after...

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2025/08/21

The results from a new longitudinal study contradict classic findings in monkeys but may not warrant a rewriting of the textbooks just yet.

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5:51

Longer fMRI brain scans boost reliability-but only to...

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2025/08/20

Around 30 minutes of imaging per person seems to be the “sweet spot” for linking functional connectivity differences to traits in an accurate and cost-effective way.

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7:03

Hitting city streets to record rat behaviors: Q&A...

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2025/08/19

Capturing the rodents’ vocalizations and movements in the wild offers an opportunity to study naturalistic behaviors in a complex urban environment, Mackevicius and Peterson say.

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9:19

Deleting data or stopping its collection will erase...

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2025/08/18

An explosion in open-neuroscience datasets has created a new generation of researchers with expertise in data science. But new federal restrictions in the United States put their research programs in jeopardy.

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9:29

The spectrum goes multidimensional in search of...

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2025/08/14

Grouping people with autism based on shared features, genetics and co-occurring conditions may improve clinical trial outcomes, researchers say.

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5:11

Exclusive: Harvard University lays off fly database team

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2025/08/13

The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

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6:02

This paper changed my life: Abigail Person on...

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2025/08/12

By isolating specific neuron types involved in zebra finch birdsong, this 2002 Nature paper from Michael Fee and colleagues revealed elegant neural mechanisms controlling the timing of natural learned behavior.

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8:55

The challenge of defining a neural population

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2025/08/11

Our current approach is largely arbitrary. We need new methods for grouping cells, ideally by their dynamics.

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8:13

Oxytocin prompts prairie voles to oust outsiders,...

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2025/08/08

The “love hormone” drives the neurobiology behind platonic bonds in animals usually studied for their romantic attachments.

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5:07

Contested paper on vaccines, autism in rats retracted...

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2025/08/07

The editor-in-chief cited “inconsistencies in the number of subjects” as the reason for the retraction.

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5:52

Body state, sensory signals commingle in mouse...

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2025/08/06

The new study challenges a long-held view that the barrel cortex exclusively encodes sensory signals from the whiskers.

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8:28

Neural population-based approaches have opened new...

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2025/08/04

Neural manifold properties can help us understand how animal brains deal with complex information, execute flexible behaviors and reuse common computations.

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6:44

Poor image quality introduces systematic bias into...

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2025/07/31

Analyses that include low-quality MRI data underestimate cortical thickness and overestimate cortical surface area, according to new findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study.

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8:16

Eye puffs prompt separable sensory, affective brain...

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2025/07/29

Post-puff brain state might not be an emotion, some researchers caution, but the protocol provides a cross-species approach to study emotions.

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7:21

What U.S. science stands to lose without...

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2025/07/28

Neuroscience in other countries will strengthen—at the United States’ expense—as rising visa restrictions and rejections block many international students from enrolling at U.S. institutions and dissuade others from applying.

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4:55

New dopamine sensor powers three-color imaging in...

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2025/07/25

The tool leverages a previously unused segment of the color spectrum to track the neurotransmitter and can be used with two additional sensors to monitor other neurochemicals at different wavelengths.

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4:24

Cell 'antennae' link autism, congenital heart disease

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2025/07/24

Variants in genes tied to both conditions derail the formation of cilia, the tiny hair-like structure found on almost every cell in the body, a new study finds.

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8:47

How to build a truly global computational...

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2025/07/23

Computational sciences offer an opportunity to increase global access to, and participation in, neuroscience. Neuromatch’s inclusive, scalable model for community building shows how to realize this promise.

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4:52

This paper changed my life: Victoria Abraira on a...

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2025/07/22

The findings from Charles Zuker’s lab put the taste system on the map, revealing that some fundamental principles of behavior are hardwired.

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