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University of California researchers and physicians discuss the latest in obesity research and offer guidance on prevention and treatment strategies.
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Males and females show different patterns of risk for brain-based conditions. Ignoring these differences does us all a disservice.
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Although studying sex differences in the brain is complex, technically awkward and socioculturally loaded, it is absolutely essential.
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Immune cell interlopers breach-and repair-brain barrier in mice
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The choroid plexus, the protective network of blood vessels and epithelial cells that line the brain's ventricles, recruits neutrophils and macrophages during inflammation, a new study shows.
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NeuroAI: A field born from the symbiosis between neuroscience, AI
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As the history of this nascent discipline reveals, neuroscience has inspired advances in artificial intelligence, and AI has provided a testing ground for models in neuroscience, accelerating progress in both fields.
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Timing tweak turns trashed fMRI scans into treasure
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Leveraging start-up "dummy scans," which are typically discarded in imaging analyses, can shorten an experiment's length and make data collection more efficient, a new study reveals.
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Brains, biases and amyloid beta: Why the female brain deserves a closer look in Alzheimer's research
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New results suggest the disease progresses differently in women, but we need more basic science to unpack the mechanisms involved.
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This paper changed my life: 'Spontaneous cortical activity reveals hallmarks of an optimal internal model of the environment,' from the Fiser Lab
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Fiser's work taught me how to think about grounding computational models in biologically plausible implementations.
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The S-index Challenge: Develop a metric to quantify data-sharing success
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The NIH-sponsored effort aims to help incentivize scientists to share data. But many barriers to the widespread adoption of useful data-sharing remain.
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A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.
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Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?
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Repeat scans reveal brain changes that precede childbirth
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A detailed look at a "pregnant brain" highlights a need to investigate the neural alterations that occur during a transition experienced by nearly 140 million people worldwide each year.
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Reconstructing dopamine's link to reward
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The field is grappling with whether to modify the long-standing theory of reward prediction error-or abandon it entirely.
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In updated U.S. autism bill, Congress calls for funding boost, expanded scope
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The current Autism CARES Act sunsets in late September.
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From reductionism to dynamical systems: How two books influenced my thinking across 30 years of neuroscience
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Nicole Rust describes her career-changing literary journey of joy, free will and the evolution of a field.
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Neuroscience needs a career path for software engineers
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Few institutions have mechanisms for the type of long-term positions that would best benefit the science.
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Nonsense correlations and how to avoid them
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This statistical error is common in systems neuroscience. Fortunately, straightforward methods can help you prevent it.
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Is it time to worry about brain chimeras?
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Brains made of neurons from two species raise new concerns.
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The insect-cognition researcher has done his work across continents, but Argentina is never far from his mind.
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Women are systematically under-cited in neuroscience. New tools can change that.
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An omitted citation in a high-profile paper led us to examine our own practices and to help others adopt tools that promote citation diversity.
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Future of BRAIN Initiative funding remains unclear
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As the U.S. Congress begins to discuss federal science funding for 2025, any plans to compensate for this year’s cuts to the neuroscience program face an uphill battle.
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At the end of the earth with Paul-Antoine Libourel
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The French researcher’s accomplishments working with chinstrap penguins in the Antarctic highlight the importance of recording sleep in the wild.
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Can an emerging field called 'neural systems understanding' explain the brain?
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This mashup of neuroscience, artificial intelligence and even linguistics and philosophy of mind aims to crack the deep question of what “understanding” is, however un-brain-like its models may be.
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Reviving 'inside-out' hypothesis of amyloid beta to explain Alzheimer's mysteries
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New research is resurfacing old ideas about where the protein forms the disease’s hallmark plaques.
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At the credit crossroads: Modern neuroscience needs a cultural shift to adopt new authorship practices
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Old heuristics to acknowledge contributors—calling out first and last authors, with everyone else in between—don’t work well for large collaborative and interdisciplinary projects, yet they remain the default.
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Should we use the computational or the network approach to analyze functional brain-imaging data-why not both?
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Emerging methods make it possible to combine the two tactics from opposite ends of the analytic spectrum, enabling scientists to have their cake and eat it too.
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How to explore your scientific values and develop a vision for your field
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As a new professor, I was caught off guard by one part of the job: my role as an evaluator.
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Carol Jennings, whose family's genetics informed amyloid cascade hypothesis, dies at 70
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Her advocacy work aided the discovery of a rare inherited form of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and helped connect affected people with researchers.
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