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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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How to use race and ethnicity data responsibly in neuroscience research

May 15 2024 7 mins  
Follow these four tips to avoid using the information in problematic ways, including as a proxy for environmental variables.

NIH seeks input on how structural racism affects brain research, health

May 12 2024 7 mins  
The feedback could lead to "novel ways" to conduct studies and reduce health disparities, a National Institutes of Health employee says.

New look at lampreys rewrites textbooks on origins of sympathetic nervous system

May 05 2024 3 mins  
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.

FDA describes 'objectionable conditions' at New York State Psychiatric Institute

Apr 17 2024 6 mins  
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.

Breaking down the winner's curse: Lessons from brain-wide association studies

Apr 14 2024 7 mins  
We found an issue with a specific type of brain imaging study and tried to share it with the field. Then the backlash began.

Wild and free: Understanding animal behavior beyond the lab

Apr 10 2024 8 mins  
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.

Knowledge gaps in cephalopod care could stall welfare standards

Apr 07 2024 10 mins  
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.

Nobel Prize winner Thomas Südhof retracts study

Apr 03 2024 3 mins  
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.

Newly found hypothalamus circuits shape bullying behaviors in mice

Mar 31 2024 6 mins  
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.

Maiken Nedergaard's power of disruption

Mar 27 2024 25 mins  
The award-winning researcher's discoveries have changed the way we think about the brain; that's exactly what her critics dislike.