Episódios

  • Remembering Adam Kampff, neuroscience educator and researcher
    Dec 24 2025

    Kampff’s do-it-yourself approach inspired a generation of neuroscientists.

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    7 minutos
  • 'Unprecedented' dorsal root ganglion atlas captures 22 types of human sensory neurons
    Dec 23 2025

    The atlas also offers up molecular and cellular targets for new pain therapies.

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    5 minutos
  • Not playing around: Why neuroscience needs toy models
    Dec 22 2025

    Amid the rise of billion-parameter models, I argue that toy models, with just a few neurons, remain essential—and may be all neuroscience needs.

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    6 minutos
  • Psychedelics research in rodents has a behavior problem
    Dec 21 2025

    Simple behavioral assays—originally validated as drug-screening tools—fall short in studies that aim to unpack the psychedelic mechanism of action, so some behavioral neuroscientists are developing more nuanced tasks.

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    9 minutos
  • New organoid atlas unveils four neurodevelopmental signatures
    Dec 21 2025

    The comprehensive resource details data on microcephaly, polymicrogyria, epilepsy and intellectual disability from 352 people.

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    4 minutos
  • AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor
    Dec 16 2025

    These guidelines can help researchers ensure the integrity of their work while accelerating progress on important scientific questions.

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    7 minutos
  • How basic neuroscience has paved the path to new drugs
    Dec 16 2025

    A growing list of medications—such as zuranolone for postpartum depression, suzetrigine for pain, and the gepants class of migraine medicines—exist because of insights from basic research.

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    8 minutos
  • Waves of calcium activity dictate eye structure in flies
    Dec 12 2025

    Synchronized signals in non-neuronal retinal cells draw the tiny compartments of a fruit fly’s compound eye into alignment during pupal development.

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    4 minutos