Linda Nordling

2 months ago | thetransmitter.org | Katie Moisse |Calli McMurray |Linda Nordling |Austin Coley

Contributing editorThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Academia, Computational neuroscience, Funding, Policy Gerry Rubin loved his time as a Stanford University postdoctoral researcher. The two years were intense, he admits—he worked up to 80 hours a week in the lab, for pay that ended up being less than minimum wage. But he was 24, staying out of debt and could afford a car and a one-bedroom apartment (with a pool) in Palo Alto, California.

Aug 21, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Shaena Montanari |Linda Nordling |George Musser |Sarah DeWeerdt

ReporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Brain stimulation, Alzheimer’s disease, Amyloid beta, Optogenetics The first big surprise came sometime around 2014, Li-Huei Tsai says. A doctoral student in her lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had come to her with an idea for an experiment: Hunter Iaccarino wanted to induce gamma rhythms in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease and measure the effects on amyloid beta levels in the brain.

Jun 6, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Linda Nordling |George Musser |Rebecca Horne |Jill Adams

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.

May 29, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Calli McMurray |Linda Nordling

A former anti-vaccination blogger has retracted his critique of a study that found no link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. The blogger, Jake Crosby, ran the now-defunct site “Autism Investigated”—where he wrote and edited posts that supported the false link between vaccines and autism—from 2013 to the end of 2020.

Nov 6, 2023 | thetransmitter.org | Linda Nordling |George Musser |Rebecca Horne |Jill Adams

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.