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Your latest update from The Transmitter, an essential resource for the neuroscience community, dedicated to helping scientists at all career stages stay current and build connections. Read more: https://www.thetransmitter.org/
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Carol Jennings, whose family's genetics informed amyloid cascade hypothesis, dies at 70
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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How to use race and ethnicity data responsibly in neuroscience research
Follow these four tips to avoid using the information in problematic ways, including as a proxy for environmental variables.
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NIH seeks input on how structural racism affects brain research, health
The feedback could lead to "novel ways" to conduct studies and reduce health disparities, a National Institutes of Health employee says.
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New look at lampreys rewrites textbooks on origins of sympathetic nervous system
Sympathetic neurons pepper the embryos of the jawless fish-Earth's first vertebrates-and overturn the idea that "fight or flight" was an innovation of jawed vertebrates.
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FDA describes 'objectionable conditions' at New York State Psychiatric Institute
The facility's institutional review board failed to report a 2021 incident and "serious and ongoing noncompliance" by a principal investigator, according to a letter released by the federal agency this week.
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Breaking down the winner's curse: Lessons from brain-wide association studies
We found an issue with a specific type of brain imaging study and tried to share it with the field. Then the backlash began.