The National Institutes of Health is hiring a new director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, following the termination of former director Walter Koroshetz in January
By Helena Kudiabor
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Great article and I completely agree. If we want to study the interesting thing about the brain ("intelligence") we need to study it doing hard tasks, not easy ones that can be solved with a single neuron or even none. Yes it makes the analysis harder but that's the challenge.
By designing decision-making tasks that vary along multiple dimensions and truly challenge our animals, we might finally understand how multiple brain areas coordinate to drive decisions, writes Chand Chandrasekaran.
A wave of new papers discuss the merits and limitations of lesion network mapping.
By Angie Voyles Askham
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Nearly 400 compounds displayed significant effects on at least two behavioral parameters in zebrafish with SCN2A or DYRK1A variants, according to a new study.
By Charles Q. Choi
Neuroscientists across the United States shared with The Transmitter what they hope the new director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke prioritizes during their tenure.
By Helena Kudiabor
When it comes to blood flow in the brain, not all neurons are created equal. Rather, only a subset of neurons may be driving vascular changes, a new study finds.
By Claudia López Lloreda
In our latest edition of “This paper changed my life,” Erin Calipari shares how a 1960s paper taught her to think deeply about factors that influence how behavior is generated and maintained.
These models can partly generalize across species, brain regions and tasks, suggesting that a set of machine-learnable rules govern neural population activity, writes Juan Alvaro Gallego. But will we be able to understand them?
