Data from people with more or fewer than two sex chromosomes could help answer questions around genetic protection and vulnerability.Source: Spectrum News

Hwang and Monaco organized a recent workshop to hear from leaders in the field about how best to integrate NeuroAI research into the BRAIN Initiative.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 2 December.Source: Spectrum News

The new type of leptin-sensitive cells curb hunger quickly—adding to an increasingly complex picture of brain circuits that control feeding behaviors. Source: Spectrum News

A growing body of papers on systems neuroscience and on giant simulations of neural circuits involves data beyond the point that anyone can reasonably understand end to end. Looking ahead, “paper-bots” could solve that problem. Source: Spectrum News

This paper defined key rules of epigenomic regulation and shaped how I study chromatin plasticity as a mechanism for experience-dependent changes in the brain.Source: Spectrum News

The incident highlights that viral vectors can trigger deadly immune responses even when delivered directly to the nervous system. Source: Spectrum News

Inhaling the hormone did not increase aggression in unsociable rhesus macaques and appears to help the animals remember faces and reciprocate friendly behaviors.Source: Spectrum News

Could the brain’s computational abilities extend beyond neural networks to molecular mechanisms? Akhlaghpour describes how natural universal computation may have evolved via RNA mechanisms.Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 25 November.Source: Spectrum News

An exponential growth in data size presents neuroscientists with a significant challenge: Should we be keeping all raw data or focusing on processed datasets? I asked experimentalists and theorists for their thoughts.Source: Spectrum News

The director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health calls BRAIN a “high priority” but acknowledges that difficult decisions lie ahead if federal budgets remain flat.Source: Spectrum News

Daily neuroscience-related posts on the social-media platform this week have increased more than 400 percent, on average, compared with October.Source: Spectrum News

The uptick from 2011 to 2022 in the United States underscores a need for more services and research, the investigators say.Source: Spectrum News