In her new book, published today, neuroscientist Nicole Rust takes us on her personal quest to spell out the brain research community's "Grand Plan."Source: Spectrum News

Here is a roundup of autism-related news and research spotted around the web for the week of 9 June.Source: Spectrum News

The real fun of being a neuroscientist, and maybe the key to asking and answering new questions, is to think big and take intellectual risks.Source: Spectrum News

Streamlining the problem from 3D to 1D eases the expedition—a strategy the study investigators deployed to rewire an olfactory circuit in flies. Source: Spectrum News

The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced a plan to pour $50 million into data science projects intended to investigate the condition’s causes, but the initiative’s short timeline and other atypicalities have prompted questions.Source: Spectrum News

Autistic adults appear to be prone to an early-onset form of Parkinson’s, according to a long-term study that tracked 2.2 million people in Sweden. Source: Spectrum News

The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat. Source: Spectrum News

A group of neuroscientists and philosophers discuss the use and misuse of the term "representation" across the cognitive sciences and how it influences the way we interpret the connection between neural, behavioral and mental activity.Source: Spectrum News

The interpeduncular nucleus produces an aversion to nicotine, even at low doses, and helps moderate how rewarding mice find the drug.Source: Spectrum News

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

New findings on the role of neural activity in developing circuits are challenging our prior notions about the rules that govern critical periods. Source: Spectrum News

Human neuroscience research has largely overlooked this spatial scale—which bridges cells and brain areas. But new advances in functional MRI technology are changing that. Source: Spectrum News

The first published paper from the EEGManyLabs replication project nullifies a null result that had complicated a famous reinforcement learning theory.Source: Spectrum News

In 2023, I had the privilege of sitting down with Gerry over the course of several days and listening as he told the story of his life and career—including stints as dean or director of such leading institutions as Columbia University and NINDS—so that we could record it for posterity.Source: Spectr…