Tyler Sloan

1 month ago | thetransmitter.org | Katie Moisse |Laura Dattaro |Tyler Sloan |Mark Humphries

Contributing editor The Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Connectome, Artificial intelligence, Axons, Calcium imaging, Cellular neuroscience, Circuits, Connectivity, Dendrites, Excitatory signaling, Inhibitory signaling, Interneurons, Machine learning, Microscopy, Neural circuits, Synapses, Synaptic plasticity, Visual cortex The most comprehensive map to date of cell structure and function in the mouse cortex reveals a previously unappreciated level of coordination among inhibitory...

Jul 26, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Laura Dattaro |Tyler Sloan |Angie Voyles Askham |Holly Barker

Contributing writer Share this article: Tags: Connectome, Animal models, Circuits, Connectivity, Drosophila, locomotion, Methods When John Tuthill was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School, he worked just down the hall from Wei-Chung Allen Lee, who was developing new technology to image and map cell connections in the central nervous system.

Jul 9, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Rebecca Horne |Angie Voyles Askham |Jill Adams |Tyler Sloan

Art directorThe 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.

Jul 9, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Jill Adams |Daisy Yuhas |Rebecca Horne |Tyler Sloan

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.

Jul 8, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Tyler Sloan |Ben Scott |Shaena Montanari |Charles Choi

Data scientistQuorumetrix Share this article: Tags: Connectome, Drosophila, Methods, Microscopy, Neuroanatomy If I ask you to picture a group of “neurons firing,” what comes to mind? For most people, it’s a few isolated neurons flashing in synchrony. This type of minimalist representation of neurons is common within neuroscience, inspired in part by Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s elegant depictions of the nervous system.