News – The Transmitter

Sensory and association regions are established through a reciprocal process, according to a new model of cortical development.

Depending on their distance from the cell body, dendrites play different roles in learning and memory.

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 27 July.

The center’s host university had been negotiating with the federal government about converting the center into an animal sanctuary. A new plan, approved today, preserves some of the center’s nonhuman primate studies.

A report from the Trump administration calls for a “new golden age” of science, in which the federal government supports mission-driven collaborations to deliver high returns on research investments.

The cells later repair the damage, which occurs mostly in transcriptionally silent parts of the genome.

Sensory traits and restricted and repetitive behaviors are best understood as distinct but related characteristics, the new work suggests.

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 20 July.

An increasing proportion of the cerebellar neurons acquired multiple primary dendrites in humans and other apes, according to a comparison of 11 primate species.

Alternating on/off firing patterns don’t just characterize deep, slow-wave sleep, they drive some of its restorative benefits, new findings suggest.

The invisible messages, which instruct large language models to use telltale phrases in a peer-review report, are effective in catching artificial-intelligence misuse but also erode trust, some say.

High gamma activity in electrophysiologic recordings reflects widespread neural activity, not merely local firing, as previously thought.

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 29 June.

The project is helping to fill critical gaps in the genetic underpinnings of autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions.

When a pair of marmosets works together to earn some marshmallow fluff, one of them decides to act only after its brain accumulates enough evidence about what the other is doing, new work shows.

The approach could help elucidate relationships between circuit structure and function, as well as the role of natural electrical synapses.

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 22 June.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus is banking on whole-brain imaging in the Danionella fish to advance neuroscience, but some scientists forced to close their labs say that even with a three-year runway and transitional support, they feel betrayed by the pivot.

When monkeys draw complex shapes, their neural activity reflects patterns of activation elicited by drawing simpler, component shapes.

The Brain Health Accelerator program aims to harness single-cell transcriptomics and cell-type-specific genetic tools to develop treatments for Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and Parkinson’s diseases, Lewy body dementia and ALS.