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Reporter's notebook: Highlights from INSAR 2025 May 15, 2025

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The annual meeting brought autism researchers, advocates and clinicians to Seattle to discuss the latest research, including attempts to define subgroups, a potential new CHD8 macaque model and life expectancy gaps.

NIDA shutters diversity fellowship program, axes active awards May 14, 2025

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It's unclear if the cancellation at the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse extends to the fellowships awarded by other institutes within the National Institutes of Health.

'We still exist': How four neuroscience advocacy groups are navigating federal DEI funding cuts May 14, 2025

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Trainees from underrepresented backgrounds are losing pillars of support in the current funding climate. Grassroots mentorship organizations are stepping in to continue championing early-career researchers.

This paper changed my life: Marino Pagan recalls a decision-making study from four titans in the field May 13, 2025

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Valerio Mante and David Sussillo, along with their mentors Krishna Shenoy and Bill Newsome, revealed the complexity of neural population dynamics and the power of recurrent neural networks.

Exclusive: Recruitment issues jeopardize ambitious plan for human brain atlas May 09, 2025

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A lack of six new brain donors may stop the project from meeting its goal to pair molecular and cellular data with the functional organization of the cortex.

How pragmatism and passion drive Fred Volkmar-even after retirement May 08, 2025

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Whether looking back at his career highlights or forward to his latest projects, the psychiatrist is committed to supporting autistic people at every age.

Sleep doesn't just consolidate memories; it actively shapes them May 06, 2025

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The rapid eye movement (REM) phase preserves newly acquired memories, but deeper non-REM sleep helps to adapt and update them, according to "heroic" day-long electrode recordings in rats.

Thinking about thinking: AI offers theoretical insights into human memory May 05, 2025

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We need a new conceptual framework for understanding cognitive functions-particularly how globally distributed brain states are formed and maintained for hours.

Mitochondrial 'landscape' shifts across human brain Apr 25, 2025

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Evolutionarily newer regions sport mitochondria with a higher capacity for energy production than older regions, according to the first detailed map of the organelles in a tissue slice, adding to mounting evidence that the brain features a metabolic gradient.

This paper changed my life: Shane Liddelow on two papers that upended astrocyte research Apr 23, 2025

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A game-changing cell culture method developed in Ben Barres' lab completely transformed the way we study astrocytes and helped me build a career studying their reactive substates.

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