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Desperate US parents pay up to $20,000 a session for a procedure scientists say could be bogus

The boost would help counter the planned sunsetting of one of the program’s long-standing funding streams.

Each month, The Transmitter explores creative approaches neuroscientists are taking to solve problems that arise in their research. In this installment, we see how researchers work backward from speci...

The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Brain activity patterns in the ventral visual cortex appear to distinguish images across 12 categories, including birds and trees, fMRI scans suggest.

Brain levels of the agouti gene determine whether African striped mice are doting fathers—or infanticidal ones.

In his first week off the job, the former National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke director urges U.S. scientists to remain optimistic about the future of neuroscience research…

In his first week off the job, the former National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke director urges U.S. scientists to remain optimistic about the future of neuroscience research…

A letter signed by the groups asks Congress to ensure that scientific expertise remains a priority in the search for a new director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

The bill goes before the House of Representatives today and outlines increases for neuroscience-related research—including a 33 percent increase to the BRAIN Initiative—but maintains a multiyear…

Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.

The approach makes it possible to deploy tools such as CRISPR and optogenetics across the monkey brain before birth.

Michael F. Chiang is director of the National Eye Institute, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

During the high-estradiol stages of their estrus cycle, female rats learn faster than they do during other stages—and than male rats overall—thanks to a boost in their dopaminergic response to reward…

Kevin B. Marvel, longtime head of the American Astronomical Society, will lead SfN after a year of uncertainty in the neuroscience field.

Neuroscience webinars from the Allen Institute to hear about latest cell types researchers from various scientists.

Leveraging start-up “dummy scans,” which are typically discarded in imaging analyses, can shorten an experiment’s length and make data collection more efficient, a new study reveals.

Nature Methods - Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with...

The U.K. has released its plan to phase out animal testing in research, as a number of countries move toward reducing the use of animals.

The results from a new longitudinal study contradict classic findings in monkeys but may not warrant a rewriting of the textbooks just yet.

The Government Accountability Office found that the Trump administration, by abruptly canceling NIH grants, had violated a 1974 federal law

Neuroscientists have long ignored the variability in animals’ behavioral responses in favor of studying differences across groups. But work on the brain differences that underlie that variability is…

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In a confusing turn of events, the National Institutes of Health told staff that it would free up some frozen funding to the Ivy League campus — then quickly backtracked.

The results help explain how the hippocampus can recall information about a place without an animal physically revisiting it.

News, perspectives and resources to help navigate the early stages of your neuroscience career

The Abel prizewinner’s pragmatic approach to solving differential equations was influential across fields ranging from weather forecasting to starting nuclear chain reactions. The Abel prizewinner’s pragmatic approach to solving differential equations was influential across fields ranging from weather forecasting to starting nuclear chain reactions.

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One of the studies received an editorial expression of concern in May, after the journal learned of an institutional review of the alleged problems.

President Trump's 2026 budget proposes cutting NIH grants to universities, academic medical centers, and other institutions by 43%