Angie Voyles Askham
Senior Reporter at The Transmitter
senior reporter @_TheTransmitter / neuroscience PhD / mother of two Email: [email protected] Signal: avaskham.54
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1 week ago |
thetransmitter.org | Holly Barker |Angie Voyles Askham |Calli McMurray
Recent articles His theories around the neuropod have challenged the boundaries of classic ideas regarding gut-brain communication. His theories around the neuropod have challenged the boundaries of classic ideas regarding gut-brain communication.
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3 weeks ago |
thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham
A new research initiative from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks to gather and analyze multiple autism-related datasets to better understand the underlying causes of the condition. Letters of intent are due tomorrow, but the project’s atypical call for applications has autism scientists divided on whether or not to participate. The Autism Data Science Initiative provides $50 million for an anticipated 10 to 25 projects, according to the 27 May announcement.
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1 month ago |
thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham
The Trump administration has canceled two grants—among the slew of U.S. federal grants terminated at Harvard University in recent months—that together provided more than $4 million in funding to map more of the mouse brain than ever before. The grants were awarded by the National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Initiative Connectivity Across Scales program, which launched in 2023 to scale up connectomic capabilities.
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1 month ago |
thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham
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. At first, they all behaved identically, too, in the 2019 study on alcohol consumption at Vanderbilt University—they quickly learned how to access the drinking spout and imbibed similar amounts of the intoxicating liquid.
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1 month ago |
thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham
A class of immune cells releases endogenous opioids to quell pain in female—but not male—mice, according to a new study. This sex-specific mechanism for pain modulation at the spinal cord may help explain why women are disproportionately diagnosed with chronic pain, the researchers say.
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