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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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5:15

Local circuit loops within body control fly behavior,...

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2025/09/24

The mapping, which traces how the central nervous system interacts with the rest of the body, challenges the idea that behavior control is centralized.

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9:28

Autism experts question HHS statements on Tylenol,...

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2025/09/22

Concerns include the administration’s reliance on weak, correlational evidence rather than established research.

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24:55

Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience: Embracing...

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2025/09/22

The traditional mechanistic framework must give way to a richer understanding of how brains actually generate behavior over time.

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4:43

This paper changed my life: Dan Goodman on a paper...

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2025/09/17

Friedemann Zenke’s 2019 paper, and its related coding tutorial SpyTorch, made it possible to apply modern machine learning to spiking neural networks. The innovation reinvigorated the field.

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5:44

Paper by memory institute director garners expression...

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2025/09/16

The notice, posted last week in Nature, follows a recent string of corrections to at least three other articles by Li-Huei Tsai’s lab.

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5:27

First nerve-net connectome shows how evolutionarily...

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2025/09/16

The map of a comb jelly’s aboral nerve net, which helps the animal orient and position itself within the water column, reveals a unique system for sensing the world and coordinating movement.

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6:27

International scientific collaboration is more...

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2025/09/15

These partnerships accelerate neuroscience by enabling researchers to share resources and expertise, as well as generate more relevant and reproducible results. But new federal funding restrictions in the United States are putting such collaborations in jeopardy.

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5:03

Sensory gatekeeper drives seizures, autism-like...

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2025/09/11

The new work, in mice missing the autism-linked gene CNTNAP2, suggests a mechanism to help explain the overlap between epilepsy and autism.

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6:44

Mitochondria set 'ancient' metabolic thermostat for...

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2025/09/09

During waking hours, a specialized set of sleep neurons in the fly brain accumulates reactive oxygen species, which eventually trigger sleep to clean up and repair the damage they do.

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7:34

Building the future of neuroscience at HBCUs

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2025/09/08

Black In Neuro is launching a new program to help historically Black colleges and universities advance neuroscience research and education, focusing on cross-institutional collaboration, joint curriculum development and improved mentoring initiatives.

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36:33

Emotion research has a communication conundrum

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2025/09/05

In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13 experts to chime in.

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7:28

Autism-linked copy number variants always boost...

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2025/09/04

By contrast, varied doses of the same genes decrease or increase the odds of five other conditions, with distinct biological consequences, two new preprints show.

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5:28

Astrocyte networks span large swaths of brain

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2025/09/03

The networks are plastic, connect brain regions that aren’t connected by neurons and may enable long-distance communication between astrocytes, a new preprint shows.

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8:25

From bench to bot: Why AI-powered writing may not...

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2025/09/02

Efficiency isn’t everything. The cognitive work of struggling with prose may be a crucial part of what drives scientific progress.

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9:09

Worms help untangle brain structure/function mystery

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2025/08/29

The synaptic connectome of most animals bears little resemblance to functional brain maps, but it can still predict neuronal activity, according to two preprints that tackle the puzzle in C. elegans.

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10:07

The Transmitter's reading list: Six upcoming...

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2025/08/27

Dig into an exploration of the fundamental aspects of intelligence, a new textbook about theoretical neuroscience and a memoir about memory research, among other new releases.

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6:23

Long-standing theoretical neuroscience fellowship...

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2025/08/26

Funding from the Swartz and Sloan Foundations helped bring physicists and mathematicians into neuroscience for more than 30 years.

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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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