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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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6:27

How artificial agents can help us understand social...

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2026/01/16

Neuroscience is chasing the complexity of social behavior, yet we have not answered the simplest question in the chain: How does a brain know “who is who”? Emerging multi-agent artificial intelligence may help accelerate our understanding of this fundamental computation.

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5:28

Common and rare variants shape distinct genetic...

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2026/01/15

Certain gene variants may have greater weight in determining autism likelihood for some populations, a new study shows.

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8:00

Bringing African ancestry into cellular neuroscience

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2026/01/14

Two independent teams in Africa are developing stem cell lines and organoids from local populations to explore neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative conditions.

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8:24

Computational psychiatry needs systems neuroscience

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2026/01/13

Dissecting different parallel processing streams may help us understand the mechanisms underlying psychiatric symptoms, such as delusions, and unite human and animal research.

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7:35

This paper changed my life: John Tuthill reflects on...

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2026/01/12

Wittlinger, Wehner and Wolf’s 2006 “stilts and stumps” Science paper revealed how ants pull off extraordinary feats of navigation using a biological odometer, and it inspired Tuthill to consider how other insects sense their own bodies.

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5:29

Some facial expressions are less reflexive than...

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2026/01/08

A countenance such as a grimace activates many of the same cortical pathways as voluntary facial movements.

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9:30

Cracking the neural code for emotional states

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2026/01/08

Rather than act as a simple switchboard for innate behaviors, the hypothalamus encodes an animal’s internal state, which influences behavior.

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5:17

Neuro's ark: How goats can model neurodegeneration

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2026/01/06

Since debunking an urban legend that headbutting animals don’t damage their brain, Nicole Ackermans has been investigating how the behavior correlates with neurodegeneration.

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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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