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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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Episodes
New look at lampreys rewrites textbooks on origins of sympathetic nervous system
5/6/2024
Sympathetic neurons pepper the embryos of the jawless fish—Earth’s first vertebrates—and overturn the idea that “fight or flight” was an innovation of jawed vertebrates.
Duration:00:03:49
FDA describes 'objectionable conditions' at New York State Psychiatric Institute
4/18/2024
The facility’s institutional review board failed to report a 2021 incident and “serious and ongoing noncompliance” by a principal investigator, according to a letter released by the federal agency this week.
Duration:00:06:23
Breaking down the winner's curse: Lessons from brain-wide association studies
4/15/2024
We found an issue with a specific type of brain imaging study and tried to share it with the field. Then the backlash began.
Duration:00:07:04
Wild and free: Understanding animal behavior beyond the lab
4/11/2024
Technological advancements have made it possible to study animals in more natural settings, but researchers are debating what that really means and whether natural is always better.
Duration:00:08:48
Knowledge gaps in cephalopod care could stall welfare standards
4/8/2024
The U.S. National Institutes of Health wants to regulate research involving cephalopods. But there aren’t enough rigorous studies to base the regulations on, veteran cephalopod researchers say.
Duration:00:10:26
Nobel Prize winner Thomas Südhof retracts study
4/4/2024
The retraction follows an editorial expression of concern that the journal applied to the paper in October, seven months after it was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Duration:00:03:07
Newly found hypothalamus circuits shape bullying behaviors in mice
4/1/2024
Activity in the tiny brain region helps submissive rodents learn to avoid aggressors, and aggressive mice to curb their attacks, according to two recent studies.
Duration:00:06:21
Maiken Nedergaard's power of disruption
3/28/2024
The award-winning researcher’s discoveries have changed the way we think about the brain; that’s exactly what her critics dislike.
Duration:00:25:40
Expanding 'little brain' may have powered dinosaur flight
3/25/2024
The cerebellum swelled in size before flight evolved among modern birds’ dinosaur ancestors, according to a new comparison of fossilized skulls and living birds.
Duration:00:04:41
How long-read sequencing will transform neuroscience
3/18/2024
New technology that delivers much more than a simple DNA sequence could have a major impact on brain research, enabling researchers to study transcript diversity, imprinting and more.
Duration:00:06:46
Incentivizing data-sharing in neuroscience: How about a little customer service?
3/11/2024
To make data truly reusable, we need to invest in data curators, who help people enter the information into repositories.
Duration:00:07:16
'Into the wild': Moving studies of memory and learning out of the lab
3/4/2024
People with electrodes embedded deep in their brain are collaborating with a growing posse of plucky researchers to uncover the mysteries of real-world recall.
Duration:00:09:54
Making cancer nervous
2/26/2024
Nerve cells in the brain and throughout the body can turbocharge tumor growth — a finding that not only expands conventional ideas about the nervous system but points to novel therapeutic targets for a range of malignancies.
Duration:00:24:40
Vast diversity of human brain cell types revealed in trove of new datasets
10/31/2023
The collection offers a glimpse into differences in cell composition — across people and brain regions — that may shape neural function.
Duration:00:06:58
Journal club: Why do some children lose their autism diagnosis?
10/26/2023
More than one-third of a cohort of autistic toddlers no longer meet criteria for the condition at school age, according to a new study, but the findings may not generalize because the cohort is predominantly white and affluent.
Duration:00:05:48
Uncertainty and excitement surround one company's cell therapy for epilepsy
10/24/2023
After 10 years of work, Neurona may have the data to quiet its skeptics. But its ongoing clinical trial will be the ultimate test.
Duration:00:19:54
Mutations in multipurpose gene deal dendrites a double whammy
10/17/2023
The mutations disrupt protein translation as well as the cell’s skeleton, according to a new study.
Duration:00:04:46
UBE3A's link to synaptic pruning bolstered by fly study
10/12/2023
Increasing or reducing the levels of the UBE3A gene, which is associated with autism and autism-related syndromes, results in altered patterns of synaptic pruning — a process that snips away brain cell connections.
Duration:00:05:18
Debate unfurls over inclusivity and authenticity in research involving minimally verbal autistic people
10/10/2023
Autism researchers can’t agree on how far to go to validate the input they gather from minimally verbal autistic people who use certain communication devices.
Duration:00:11:44
Common genetic variants shape the structure of the cortex
10/5/2023
A genome-wide association study lays a foundation for deeper investigation of these variants in neurodevelopmental conditions.
Duration:00:05:38