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Finding creative ways to keep early-career researchers in academia—for example, through part-time roles—can help the field weather the storm.

Dynamic coding helps explain how the brain processes multiple features of speech—from the smallest units of sounds to full sentences—simultaneously.

The cells amplify oxytocin—and may be responsible for sex differences in social behavior, two preprints find.

Carola Städele, a self-proclaimed “tick magnet,” studies the arachnids’ sensory neurobiology—in other words, how these tiny parasites zero in on their next meal.

Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias peer review.

The immune-conflict between dam and fetus could help explain sex differences in neurodevelopmental conditions.

Sam Wang, a neuroscientist running for the U.S. House of Representatives, has been considering American democracy for decades.

Brain activity patterns in the ventral visual cortex appear to distinguish images across 12 categories, including birds and trees, longitudinal functional MRI scans suggest.

After a clinical research career, an interlude at Apple and four months in early retirement, Raphe Bernier found joy in teaching.

The genetic variants initially affect brain development in unique ways, but over time they converge on common molecular pathways.

Studying individual synapses has the potential to help neuroscientists develop new theories, better understand brain disorders and reevaluate 70 years of work on synaptic transmission plasticity.

If our field is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought.

A 2013  Nature  paper from David Anderson’s lab revealed a group of sensory neurons involved in pleasurable touch and led Abdus-Saboor down a new research path.

Without the mechanosensor TMEM63A, the cells cannot deposit the appropriate amount of insulation, according to a new study.

Degradation-resistant proteins pass from neurons to glial cells in a process that may spread protein clumps around the brain, according to a study in mice.

Defining brain cell types is no longer a matter of classification alone, but of embedding their genetic identities within the dynamical organization of population activity.

The board of directors at Oregon Health & Science University, which runs the primate center, voted unanimously in favor of the move.

One of four language-responsive cerebellar regions may encode meaningful information, much like the cortical language network in the left hemisphere, according to a new study.

“MacArthur genius” Kenneth Catania outlined the physiology behind the moles’ stellar foraging skills two decades ago. Next, he wants to better characterize their food-seeking behavior.

The atlas details the genetics, birth dates and gene-expression signatures of roughly 150 neuron subtypes in the dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord.

The policy aimed to increase the transparency of research in humans but created “a bureaucratic nightmare” for basic neuroscientists.

A reanalysis of the data revealed errors and failed to replicate the results.

If the struggle to articulate an idea is part of how you come to understand it, then tools that bypass that struggle might degrade your capacity for the kind of thinking that matters most for actual discovery.

The retroviral insert appears to inadvertently switch off a gene involved in brain development.

Studying how organisms infer indirect threats and understand changing contexts can establish a common framework that bridges species and levels of analysis.