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1 month ago | thetransmitter.org | RJ Mackenzie |Angie Voyles Askham |Jill Adams |Claudia Lopez Lloreda

New footage documents microglia pruning synapses at high resolution and in real time. The recordings, published in January, add a new twist to a convoluted debate about the range of these cells’ responsibilities. Microglia are the brain’s resident immune cells. For about a decade, some have also credited them with pruning excess synaptic connections during early brain development.

1 month ago | thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham |Calli McMurray |Charles Piller |Brendan Borrell

Three researchers who served as scientific advisers to the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) were removed from their positions this week, The Transmitter has learned. At least one adviser to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) was also terminated this week. The researchers each received a letter this week from Matthew Memoli, acting director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), dated 21 March.

1 month ago | thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham |Calli McMurray |Charles Piller |Brendan Borrell

Three researchers who served as scientific advisers to the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) were removed from their positions this week, The Transmitter has learned. At least two advisers to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) were also terminated this week. The researchers each received a letter this week from Matthew Memoli, acting director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), dated 21 March.

1 month ago | thetransmitter.org | Rebecca M. Shansky |Rachel Buckley |Angie Voyles Askham |Austin Coley

“Becca! Becca! I have something to tell you!”During a conference coffee break in 2019, I looked up to see a long-time colleague approaching me with what appeared to be great urgency. What could his exciting news be? I wondered. He looked at me and beamed. “I studied a female!”On the surface, you might not think that the simple act of performing an experiment on a female mouse should be cause for such celebration.

1 month ago | thetransmitter.org | Calli McMurray |Katie Moisse |Angie Voyles Askham |Ashley Juavinett

ReporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Cognitive neuroscience, Attention, Brain imaging, Developmental neuroscience, fMRI, Hippocampus, Learning, Memory, Neurodevelopment A decade ago, Nick Turk-Browne unintentionally created a paradox. He demonstrated in a series of studies that statistical learning, or the ability to extract patterns from experiences, depends on the hippocampus, a brain region also involved in forming episodic memories.