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  • 6 minutes 23 seconds
    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.
    18 April 2024, 4:00 am
  • 7 minutes 4 seconds
    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.
    15 April 2024, 4:00 am
  • 8 minutes 48 seconds
    Wild and free: Understanding animal behavior beyond the lab
    Technological advancements have made it possible to study animals in more natural settings, but researchers are debating what that really means and whether natural is always better.
    11 April 2024, 4:00 am
  • 10 minutes 26 seconds
    Knowledge gaps in cephalopod care could stall welfare standards
    The U.S. National Institutes of Health wants to regulate research involving cephalopods. But there aren't enough rigorous studies to base the regulations on, veteran cephalopod researchers say.
    8 April 2024, 4:00 am
  • 3 minutes 7 seconds
    Nobel Prize winner Thomas Südhof retracts study
    The retraction follows an editorial expression of concern that the journal applied to the paper in October, seven months after it was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
    4 April 2024, 4:00 am
  • 6 minutes 21 seconds
    Newly found hypothalamus circuits shape bullying behaviors in mice
    Activity in the tiny brain region helps submissive rodents learn to avoid aggressors, and aggressive mice to curb their attacks, according to two recent studies.
    1 April 2024, 4:00 am
  • 25 minutes 40 seconds
    Maiken Nedergaard's power of disruption
    The award-winning researcher's discoveries have changed the way we think about the brain; that's exactly what her critics dislike.
    28 March 2024, 4:00 am
  • 4 minutes 41 seconds
    Expanding 'little brain' may have powered dinosaur flight
    The cerebellum swelled in size before flight evolved among modern birds' dinosaur ancestors, according to a new comparison of fossilized skulls and living birds.
    25 March 2024, 4:00 am
  • 6 minutes 46 seconds
    How long-read sequencing will transform neuroscience
    New technology that delivers much more than a simple DNA sequence could have a major impact on brain research, enabling researchers to study transcript diversity, imprinting and more.
    18 March 2024, 4:00 am
  • 7 minutes 16 seconds
    Incentivizing data-sharing in neuroscience: How about a little customer service?
    To make data truly reusable, we need to invest in data curators, who help people enter the information into repositories.
    11 March 2024, 4:00 am
  • 9 minutes 54 seconds
    'Into the wild': Moving studies of memory and learning out of the lab

    People with electrodes embedded deep in their brain are collaborating with a growing posse of plucky researchers to uncover the mysteries of real-world recall.

    4 March 2024, 5:00 am
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