In his new book, published today, investigative journalist Charles Piller tells the story of the scientific misconduct that shook Alzheimer’s disease research to its core, and the neuroscientist who helped to expose it.Source: Spectrum News

The MacArthur Foundation “genius” discusses his return to his home state of Minnesota and why it’s important to protect the developing brain.Source: Spectrum News

In light of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearings this week, The Transmitter has rounded up our past coverage of the false association between vaccines and autism.Source: Spectrum News

Postdoctoral researchers sponsored by the National Institutes of Health now toil longer than ever before, for less money. They are responding accordingly.Source: Spectrum News

The neurons represent not only an animal’s place in space, but also the distinguishing features of its fellow bats, including their sex and social status.Source: Spectrum News

The resource profiles millions of single cells across the developing cortex, revealing when, where and how certain cell types emerge and illuminating possible origins of autism and other conditions. Source: Spectrum News

The library of regulatory-compliant animal procedures offers experimental standards and specific language that researchers can borrow for their own legal paperwork. Source: Spectrum News

Inspired by his own behavioral neuroscience research and the philosophy of Henri Bergson, Robbe makes the case that we don't have clocks in our brains but instead perceive time by way of our interactions with the world.Source: Spectrum News

A new Easterseals Disability Services multi-media report, Reimagining Hollywood: A New Lens on Disability Inclusion, provides a comprehensive understanding of how disability inclusion is currently viewed in entertainment and media. While there have been positive steps forward, new data underscores t…

To conduct scientifically accurate and socially responsible research, it is useful to think of “sex” as a complex, multifactorial and context-dependent variable.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 27 January.Source: Spectrum News

Many of the recent developments underlying the explosive success of artificial intelligence have diverged from using neuroscience as a source of inspiration—and the trend is likely to continue.Source: Spectrum News

Programs that prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion in the field may be at risk, leaving researchers in a “holding pattern,” according to one grant recipient. Source: Spectrum News

The co-author of the classic textbook “The Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology” and pioneer in studying the roles of neurotransmitters in the brain died on 8 January at 88 years old.Source: Spectrum News