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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.

1 month ago | thetransmitter.org | Chloe Williams |Jill Adams |Katie Moisse |Angie Voyles Askham

Changes in gene regulation and expression precede alterations in neuronal function and behavior in mice lacking MECP2, the gene implicated in Rett syndrome, according to a new study. The findings shed light on the cascade of events that occur when MECP2 is lost and suggest gene expression changes likely lead to the neuronal and behavioral characteristics of the condition, the researchers say. Rett syndrome is a rare condition, usually caused by variants in MECP2.