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Perimenopause: An important-and understudied-transition for the brain Nov 12, 2025

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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.

Without monkeys, neuroscience has no future Nov 10, 2025

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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.

Our searchable repository of useful research can restore trust in federally funded basic science Nov 05, 2025

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Called U.S. Public Research Benefits, the database showcases the value of basic science in an easy and accessible format.

How neuroscientists are using AI Nov 04, 2025

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

Neuroscience needs engineers-for more reasons than you think Nov 03, 2025

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

Ramping up cortical activity in early life sparks autism-like behaviors in mice Oct 30, 2025

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

First Pan-African neuroscience journal gets ready to launch Oct 28, 2025

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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.

The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory Oct 27, 2025

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

Remembering GABA pioneer Edward Kravitz Oct 24, 2025

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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.

Timing tweak turns trashed fMRI scans into treasure Oct 30, 2024

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Leveraging start-up "dummy scans," which are typically discarded in imaging analyses, can shorten an experiment's length and make data collection more efficient, a new study reveals.

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