Episodios

  • Frameshift: How Caitlin Vander Weele made science communication her business
    Mar 20 2026

    Her favorite part of research was talking about it. So she left academia and turned that passion into a successful company.

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    6 m
  • Signs of aging vary across brain cells
    Mar 20 2026

    Senescence presents differently depending on the cell type, toxic trigger and neighboring cells, two new studies find.

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    5 m
  • Neuroscientists challenge NIH's proposed human-data access policy
    Mar 20 2026

    The changes would restrict the sharing of human neuroimaging, transcriptomic and genetic data.

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    6 m
  • Large-scale neuroimaging datasets often lack information specific to women's health, constraining AI's analysis potential
    Mar 20 2026

    Addressing this gap will require collecting widespread data on pregnancy, menopause and other life events women experience—and could bring us closer to the “holy grail” of linking brain and behavior.

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    7 m
  • Remembering Annette Dolphin, who helped explain gabapentin's effects
    Mar 13 2026

    The “intuitive” neuropharmacologist pushed against the status quo.

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    8 m
  • Revised statistical bar extracts less-common variants from autism genetics studies
    Mar 13 2026

    Adjusting genetic analyses could help plug autism’s heritability gap, according to a new preprint.

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    5 m
  • This paper changed my life: Talia Lerner reflects on dopamine neuron diversity and the value of simple experiments
    Mar 13 2026

    In a 2011 Neuron study, Stephan Lammel and his colleagues showed that dopamine neurons with different projections have different physiological properties. The work inspired Lerner to think about how to challenge widely held assumptions in the field.

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    7 m
  • Hippocampus builds reputation as 'general-purpose statistical learning machine'
    Mar 13 2026

    New cross-species findings may help settle a long-standing debate about whether the hippocampus is required for passive learning.

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    6 m