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Why we need basic science to better understand the neurobiology of psychedelics Oct 01, 2025

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Despite the many psychedelics clinical trials underway, there is still much we don't know about how these drugs work. Preclinical studies represent our best viable avenue to answer these lingering questions.

Reproducibility is a team sport: Lessons from a large-scale collaboration Sep 29, 2025

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Building reproducible systems across labs is possible, even in large-scale neuroscience projects. You just need rigor, collaboration and the willingness to look your own practices dead in the eye.

Local circuit loops within body control fly behavior, new 'embodied' connectome reveals Sep 24, 2025

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

Autism experts question HHS statements on Tylenol, leucovorin Sep 22, 2025

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

Beyond Newtonian causation in neuroscience: Embracing complex causality Sep 22, 2025

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

This paper changed my life: Dan Goodman on a paper that reignited the field of spiking neural networks Sep 17, 2025

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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.

First nerve-net connectome shows how evolutionarily ancient nervous system coordinates movement Sep 16, 2025

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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.

Paper by memory institute director garners expression of concern over image integrity Sep 16, 2025

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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.

International scientific collaboration is more necessary-yet more challenging-than ever Sep 15, 2025

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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.

Sensory gatekeeper drives seizures, autism-like behaviors in mouse model Sep 11, 2025

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