This edition of Null and Noteworthy—the first for The Transmitter—highlights new findings about the auditory steady-state response in people with schizophrenia that, all within one study, somehow packed in a null result and a failed replication.Source: Spectrum News

These networks align with different assemblages of cells, a finding that could reveal how cellular diversity influences brain function, according to a new study.Source: Spectrum News

The changes could reflect different developmental trajectories between boys and girls with autism, a new study suggests. Source: Spectrum News

Touch modulates one of two dueling types of hypothalamic neurons that, thermostat-like, balance an animal’s drive for social interaction.Source: Spectrum News

Greene's book, “Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember,” explores the many factors that affect how we recall the events in our lives, from the mundane to the emotionally powerful. Source: Spectrum News

The duplications likely do not alter the conclusions, but the paper contains other methodological issues, two independent microplastics researchers say. Source: Spectrum News

As diversity and inclusion funding initiatives crumble, we as neuroscientists need to change how we write grants, better communicate the economic benefits of our work and engage in constructive conflict when necessary.Source: Spectrum News

Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.Source: Spectrum News

Author lists on papers have ballooned, and it’s getting hard to discern contribution.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 24 February.Source: Spectrum News

Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking that leads to “random walk science.” Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments toward deeper insights.Source: Spectrum News

The termination is one of more than 1,000 employee cuts at the U.S. agency this week.Source: Spectrum News

The 1970s papers from Goldberg and Wurtz made ambitious mechanistic studies of higher brain functions seem feasible.Source: Spectrum News

Scientific data and independence are at risk. We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political interference.Source: Spectrum News