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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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5:41

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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16:46

How neuroscientists are using AI

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2025/11/04

Eight researchers explain how they are using large language models to analyze the literature, brainstorm hypotheses and interact with complex datasets.

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9:11

Neuroscience needs engineers-for more reasons than...

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2025/11/03

Adopting an engineering mindset will help the field focus its research priorities.

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6:17

Ramping up cortical activity in early life sparks...

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2025/10/30

The findings add fuel to the long-running debate over how an imbalance in excitatory and inhibitory signaling contributes to the autism.

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4:58

First Pan-African neuroscience journal gets ready to...

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2025/10/28

With lower-than-average article processing fees, and issues dedicated to topics important to the continent, the journal hopes to give African neuroscience research much-needed international visibility.

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9:26

The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory

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2025/10/27

Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions.

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9:15

Remembering GABA pioneer Edward Kravitz

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2025/10/24

The biochemist, who died last month at age 92, was part of the first neurobiology department in the world and showed that gamma-aminobutyric acid is inhibitory.

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9:08

Protein tug-of-war controls pace of synaptic...

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2025/10/23

Human-specific duplicates of SRGAP2 prolong cortical development by manipulating SYNGAP, an autism-linked protein that slows synaptic growth.

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5:21

Neurons tune electron transport chain to survive...

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2025/10/22

Nociceptors tamp down the production of reactive oxygen species in response to heat, chemical irritants or toxins.

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5:48

This paper changed my life: Sandra Jurado marvels at...

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2025/10/21

In this 2006 Cell paper, Shigeo Takamori and his colleagues showcased the molecular machinery of synaptic vesicles in outstanding detail. Their work taught me that these aren’t just passive containers for neurotransmitters but dynamic, precision-built nanomachines.

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13:32

Diving in with Nachum Ulanovsky

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2025/10/16

With an eye toward realism, the neuroscientist, who has a new study about bats out today, creates microcosms of the natural world to understand animal behavior.

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6:01

Gene-activity map of developing brain reveals new...

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2025/10/16

Boys and girls may be vulnerable to different genetic changes, which could help explain why the condition is more common in boys despite linked variants appearing more often in girls.

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6:21

Engrams in amygdala lean on astrocytes to solidify...

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2025/10/15

Disrupting the astrocyte-neuronal dynamic in mice destabilizes their memory of fear conditioning.

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