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Brain computer interfaces
By clicking to watch this video, you agree to our privacy policy. Long-term implants provide an opportunity to study how speech arises in everyday life. By clicking to watch this video, you agree to our privacy policy. Long-term implants provide an opportunity to study how speech arises in everyday life. By , The motor cortex is organized into an "intermixed jumble of tiles" to generate meaningful movement.
Marcelle Lapicque: A forgotten pioneer of neuroscience
In the early 20th century, Marcelle Lapicque ran her own physiology lab at Sorbonne University and did groundbreaking work decoding how signals travel through the nervous system. Yet her legacy has been largely lost to history. That may be because of her gender—and her race, according to a paper published last year. Read the transcript.
Escaping groupthink: What animals’ behavioral quirks reveal about the brain
Senior reporter The Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Animal behavior, Animal models, Audio research news, Behavioral neuroscience, Circuits, Modeling, Mouse models, Systems neuroscience Listen to this story: Your browser doesn't support the audio element Download The mice were, for all intents and purposes, identical: They were all derived from the same inbred colony, making them genetically the same, and they were all reared in a shared environment.
‘Sacred objects’ display discredits Golgi and Ramón y Cajal’s rivalry: Q&A with curator Daniel Colón Ramos
Colón Ramos makes his case in “Mind/Matter: The Neuroscience of Perception, Attention and Memory,” an exhibit of drawings from Ramón y Cajal and Golgi he curated at the Yale Peabody Museum in collaboration with the Wu Tsai Institute of Yale University. “Butterflies of the Soul,” a section named after Ramón y Cajal’s metaphor for neurons, also showcases letters between the two researchers, in which they share findings and a drive to find common ground.
Egyptian fruit bats’ neural patterns represent different experimenters
About 10 years ago, when Michael Yartsev set up the NeuroBat Lab, he built a new windowless cave of sorts: a fully automated bat flight room. Equipped with cameras and other recording devices, the remote-controlled space has enabled his team to study the neuronal basis of navigation, acoustic and social behavior in Egyptian fruit bats without having any direct interaction with the animals.
10 standards for brain electrode-array recordings enhance reproducibility
Five years ago, Anne Churchland and her colleagues in 10 other labs set themselves an ambitious task. They wanted to create a vast, pooled dataset of electrophysiology recordings from the same brain location in head-fixed mice performing a visual decision-making task. To try to standardize their efforts, they all used Neuropixels probes and identical surgical techniques and animal-training protocols.
Leveraging the power of community to strengthen clinical trials for rare genetic syndromes
Associate professor University of California, Los Angeles Share this article: Tags: Spectrum, Clinical trials, Community, drug development, Gene therapy, Genetic testing, Health care, Neurodevelopment, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Quality of life, Treatments, UBE3A In late January 2024, my colleagues and I received startling news. A first-of-its-kind randomized clinical trial testing a potential therapeutic drug for dup15q syndrome was coming to an abrupt end.
Improvising to study brains in the wild: Q&A with Nacho Sanguinetti-Scheck
Art director The Transmitter Share this article: Uruguayan neuroscientist Juan Ignacio (Nacho) Sanguinetti-Scheck can trace his passion for studying animal behavior in the wild to a joke he made in 2015. He was a Ph.D. student at the time and also performed improv a few times per week.
Autism interventions tailored for Black Americans; gene therapy for Rett syndrome; KATNAL2 gene
Welcome to The Transmitter Spectrum is now a key section of The Transmitter and continues to publish news and perspectives about autism research. Previous Spectrum articles are available at thetransmitter.org.
The perils of parachute research
Share this article: Tags: Spectrum, Academia, Autism, Ethics, Health care, Publishing In 2010, Rosa Hoekstra was feeling adrift in her career studying how genetics and biological processes affect psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions. Her research at the University of Cambridge was predominantly lab based, and Hoekstra says she felt unsure about its impact, wondering whom it would benefit and how.
FOXP1 and FOXP2 genes; school absences; Parkinson’s disease
Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 3 June. Contributing writer Share this article: Tags: Spectrum, Autism, Science and society, Spotted Mice missing the FOXP1 and FOXP2 genes in D1-receptor-expressing spiny projection neurons show increased firing of those neurons, as well as altered motor and social behaviors.
Redrawing Santiago Ramón y Cajal: Q&A with Dawn Hunter
Art director The Transmitter Share this article: The drawings and photographs of Santiago Ramón y Cajal are familiar to any neuroscientist—and probably anyone even remotely interested in the field. Most people who take a cursory look at his iconic images might assume that he created them using only direct observation.
Immanuel Lutheran School’s musical showcases project-based learning
The all-school cast of Immanuel Lutheran School in Elmhurst at the finale of their musical on Friday, April 12. Courtesy of Tricia Larsen On Friday, April 12, Immanuel Lutheran School in Elmhurst presented an unforgettable musical production, showcasing not only the talents of its students but also an innovative educational method. Project-based learning is a teaching approach in which students learn by working on extended, real-world projects.
Wild and free: Understanding animal behavior beyond the lab
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Reporter The Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Animal behavior, Animal models, Audio research news, Methods, Neuroethology Listen to this story: Your browser doesn't support the audio element Download When Nacho Sanguinetti-Scheck came across a seal study in Science in 2023, he saw it as confirmation of the “wild” research he had recently been doing himself.
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On a bold mission to re-engineer brain parts
Rebecca Horne Art director The Transmitter Tags: Neuroengineering , Epilepsy , Organoids , Seizures A coalition of 12 labs across seven European countries has set itself an ambitious, almost science-fiction-sounding agenda: The scientists behind a project called HERMES — short for Hybrid Enhanced Regenerative Medicine Systems — are working to engineer next-generation neural probes and artificial-intelligence-powered organoid-microelectronic implants to restore and reshape brain tissue damaged...
Unmasking Alzheimer’s disease
books / science in art People with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease describe why they enrolled in clinical trials through the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN), in a new book of portrait photography. Photography by Joe Wallace Rebecca Horne Art director The Transmitter Tags: science in art, Alzheimer’s disease, art in science, clinical trials, dementia Too often, a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease cuts the person off from the world, says Joe Wallace, a Massachusetts-based photographer.
On the high seas with Florian Engert and Bence Ölveczky
Rebecca Horne Art director The Transmitter Tags: craft and careers, beyond the bench As neuroscientists, Florian Engert and Bence Ölveczky are always looking for ways to tackle new challenges. Later this month, the pair — who have been friends for two decades — are booked to bring that same ambition to the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. On 15 November, they plan to join a crew of other amateur sailors on board a 70-foot yacht, racing from Cape Town, South Africa, to Freemantle, Australia.
Reading fly minds in a mini-IMAX theater
Senior reporter The Transmitter Art director The Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Methods, Behavioral neuroscience, Connectome, Drosophila How does the brain generate a motor response based on a visual stimulus? That’s something that Gwyneth Card, associate professor of neuroscience at Columbia University, wants to understand — so she and her team designed a “fly IMAX theater,” described in this video.
Shafali Spurling Jeste
Welcome to The Transmitter Spectrum is now a key section of The Transmitter and continues to publish news and perspectives about autism research. Previous Spectrum articles are available at thetransmitter.org.
George Musser
George Musser is an award-winning science writer and editor. He was a senior editor at Scientific American for 15 years and has written two books on fundamental physics, “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory” (2008) and “Spooky Action at a Distance” (2015). He has written for Science, Nature, Quanta, Aeon, Nautilus, The New York Times and other publications. His website is georgemusser.com. He tweets at @gmusser.
Linda Nordling
Linda Nordling is a freelance journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. She writes about science, education, health and development. Scientists who study autism in lower-income countries are working to end practices that exploit or ignore collaborators and communities on the ground. Petrus de Vries is on a quest to outfit Africa, the continent of his birth, with trained autism researchers and service providers.
Rebecca Horne
Explore more from The Transmitter By clicking to watch this video, you agree to our privacy policy. Matthieu de Wit, Luis H. Favela and Vicente Raja weigh in on the recent trend of neuroscientists importing concepts from ecological psychology, the study of how an organism’s interactions with its environment explain perception and action. By clicking to watch this video, you agree to our privacy policy. Matthieu de Wit, Luis H.
Capturing autism’s sleep problems with devices nearable and wearable
Listen to this story: Autism scientists have long been on a quest to crack the condition’s sleep conundrum. Problems with falling and staying asleep are not typically considered a core trait of autism, but they are exceedingly common among autistic people and have compound effects: They can exacerbate a range of autism traits and are linked to greater difficulties with daily functioning.
From the archives: Rare photos of Grunya Sukhareva
Grunya (left) and Maria (right) Sukhareva both earned medical degrees in Kyiv, Ukraine, with Grunya, shown here at age 10, ultimately specializing in child psychiatry and her sister in infectious diseases. After graduating from medical school, Grunya Sukhareva, shown here in 1916, joined a team of epidemiologists who traveled to areas in Ukraine affected by outbreaks of encephalitis and other infectious diseases.
Special report: The new history of autism
The history of science has long overlooked contributions from underrepresented groups — and the history of autism research is no exception. For 40 years, virtually every story about the field’s origins has starred Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger, who are credited with writing, in 1943 and 1944, respectively, the earliest accounts of autism as a distinct diagnosis.
Five tips for translating research findings into smart public policy
Policy decisions matter, says Lindsay Shea. “The unique thing about policy is that one thing changes and it impacts hundreds of thousands of people.” Yet too often, she adds, policy decisions happen without robust input from the research community. Part of the problem is that scientists aren’t trained to communicate with policymakers.
Novel protocol captures autism voices across the spectrum
Visual aids and other strategies make it possible to interview young autistic people with intellectual disability or other communication challenges and to draw out valuable responses for research purposes, researchers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, reported in May. The team piloted their flexible interviewing protocol, called Autism Voices, with 33 participants pulled from the longitudinal Pathways in ASD study.
Vessel Collection
Vessel Collection These images start as drawings, then become temporary constructions that are photographed and then become flat again — playing with the illusion of depth and volume on a 2-dimensional picture plane. As a child I went on archaeological digs with my father. Tiny shards and arrowheads revealed stories that enriched the land around us. Much of my artwork imagines phenomena both seen and unseen.
COVID vaccine can adapt to combat new mutations, says Oxford professor
Covid-19 vaccines will be able to be adapted to offer effective protection against future coronavirus mutations, an Oxford University professor has claimed. Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, told CNBC that he was confident that the vaccine can be updated to protect against future mutations, and it is likely both the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines already provide protection against the new variant circulating in the UK – B117.
Shifting the Colors of War
By Rebecca Horne March 30, 2012 1:31 pm ET The locations are the battlefields of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The images are made with the Cold War-era satellite film Aerochrome, a discontinued Kodak infared color film originally designed for reconnaissance and camouflage detection. The film sees normal foliage as magenta or red, showing camouflage as purple or blue.
On the same page: Divorce, drawing, and parenting an autistic child
Wesley Grubbs Founder, Pitch Interactive Listen to this story: Wesley Grubbs is founder of Pitch Interactive, a data-visualization studio in Berkeley, California, where his role allows him to merge the creative and analytical. He is also the parent of two children: Orson, 7, and Lyra, 12, who is autistic. When Lyra was 6 years old, Grubbs started a collaborative drawing project with her.
A Life’s Work - Photographs by Bharat Sikka
The evolution of a photographer’s artistic process is necessarily tied to personal change and growth, and while Bharat Sikka’s numerous projects are united in their rich cinematic styling, each series functions as a distinct chapter in the greater story of the artist’s life. With a father in the Indian Army, Sikka and his family lived all over India throughout his childhood.
Pseudologia - Photographs by Rebecca Horne
Rebecca Horne arranges everyday objects into illusion-filled still lifes and tableaux, creating worlds of unexpected visual relationships. ‘Pseudologia fantastica’ is a psychological term used to describe someone who weaves quasi-delusional tales into their own personal narrative. In many ways, it is an idea somewhat synonymous with art-making.
Photographer captures intimate scenes of daily life with autism
Erin Lefevre Photographer Visual stories by and about people with autism are crucial for raising awareness about the condition. Stock photography, films and television series have started to depict autistic people and characters, but the media landscape remains imbalanced and riddled with damaging stereotypes. New York City-based photographer Erin Lefevre aims to help correct that bias through intimate portraits of her 19-year-old brother, Liam, who is on the spectrum.
2019: Year in review
Five hot topics in autism research in 2019 This year’s hot topics in autism research center around brain organoids, heart rate, the gut microbiome, treatment timing and early detection. Photographer captures intimate scenes of daily life with autism An award-winning photography series offers a close look at one autistic person coming of age in New York City. In case you missed them: Spectrum’s standout stories from 2019 Here are seven Spectrum stories from this year that deserve a close look.
Science serves up inspiration for Katie Carey's whimsical artwork
Katie Carey Illustrator In early 2018, Spectrum asked Katie Carey to illustrate a special report on mouse models of autism. For a topic that could have been weedy and dry, Carey chose a colorful palette and created a series of illustrations that were sharp and whimsical, yet captured the scientific points beautifully.
2018: Year in Review
Notable papers in autism research in 2018 This year’s list of top papers highlights new dimensions in our understanding of autism genetics and hints at novel treatments. Five hot topics in autism research in 2018 This year, researchers made big headway on autism’s most perplexing questions. In Peru, novel program paves the way for autistic people’s employment At a center in Lima, Peru, people with autism learn to identify their strengths and find jobs that play to those strengths.
How to design spaces for people with autism
For people on the spectrum, the physical space they occupy can go a long way in providing a sense of comfort and support. Architects are working with schools to create welcoming, versatile spaces for autistic students. This video looks at two projects: an urban campus in New York City and a rural one in New Jersey. In both locations, icons and colors guide autistic students from one classroom or floor to another.
I Spy... Classified Aircraft
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Felling Ancient Trees is Risky Business
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Ice Worms-the Least Charismatic Victims of Climate Change?
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Bacteria Gone Wild
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2D + 2D + 2D = 3D
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I Can See My House From Here
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Panoramic Wall Photos Examine the World's Most Volatile Borders
A section of the biggest peace line� of West Belfast in Waterville Street, which was reinforced with concrete and extended with a fence on the top in 2008. Belfast, Northern Ireland, September 2008. Photo: From Confrontier by Kai Wiedenhöfer published by Steidl. A section of the biggest peace line of West Belfast at the crossing of First Street and North Howard Street which was reinforced with concrete and built higher in 2008. It separates a Catholic and a Protestant neighbourhood.
Artist with autism captures personalities on paper
Nicole Appel has a track record of successful exhibitions, sales and a wait list of collectors that many artists would envy, and she is only 26. She also has autism. Appel works part time at LAND Studio and Gallery, an exhibition space and studio in Brooklyn, New York, for artists with developmental disabilities. She works there three days a week, spending nearly as much time sharpening her pencils as she does drawing, and carefully collecting the shavings in a Ziploc bag.
Live Double Exposures Mash Up Beautiful Views and Ordinary Objects
After three hours of laying completely still, waiting for his film camera's long exposure to complete its eight-hour run in a darkened room, Abelardo Morell started to have nightmarish hallucinations. He eventually fell asleep, but his restlessness ruined the photo anyway. That's when he decided some of his photos would work fine without him as a subject. Morell, a Cuban-born photographer, has become well-known for traveling the world and converting rooms into camera obscuras, or pinhole cameras.
Creating an innovative youth mental health service in the United Kingdom: The Norfolk Youth Service
Young people attempting to access mental health services in the United Kingdom often find traditional models of care outdated, rigid, inaccessible and unappealing. Policy recommendations, research and service user opinion suggest that reform is needed to reflect the changing needs of young people.
How Can You Tell If a Rat Is Depressed?
A little more than a decade ago, Mike Mendl developed a new test for gauging a laboratory rat’s level of happiness. Mendl, an animal welfare researcher in the veterinary school at the University of Bristol in England, was looking for an objective way to tell whether animals in captivity were suffering.
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