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Embrace complexity to improve the translatability of basic neuroscience Apr 09, 2026

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Researchers must learn to view heterogeneity as an essential feature of the systems they study and a central consideration in experimental design, not a variable to control for or reduce.

What geckos tell us about the evolution of hearing Apr 01, 2026

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Catherine Carr explains her discovery that geckos retain a vibration-sensing pathway previously thought to be lost when animals moved onto land.

Frameshift: How Caitlin Vander Weele made science communication her business Mar 19, 2026

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

Signs of aging vary across brain cells Mar 18, 2026

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

Neuroscientists challenge NIH's proposed human-data access policy Mar 17, 2026

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

Large-scale neuroimaging datasets often lack information specific to women's health, constraining AI's analysis potential Mar 16, 2026

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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.

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

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The "intuitive" neuropharmacologist pushed against the status quo.

Revised statistical bar extracts less-common variants from autism genetics studies Mar 12, 2026

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

This paper changed my life: Talia Lerner reflects on dopamine neuron diversity and the value of simple experiments Mar 11, 2026

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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.

Hippocampus builds reputation as 'general-purpose statistical learning machine' Mar 10, 2026

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