Elissa Welle, PhD
@ElissaWelle
neuroscience š§ reporter for @_TheTransmitter | bylines in @reuters @nature @chronicle @statnews @freep | ex-neural engineer | tips? [email protected]
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http://elissawelle.com 07-09-2020 22:39:12
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BRAIN Initiative funding was cut by 40% from last year, and it's not yet clear what that will mean for current grants, reports Angie Voyles Askham for The Transmitter thetransmitter.org/funding/278-miā¦
Companies gathering neural data in Colorado will now be subject to the new Colorado Privacy Act, which passed yesterday, reports Isha Marathe for LegaltechĀ©news law.com/legaltechnews/ā¦
The sympathetic nervous system may have originated in jawless fishānot tens of millions of years later as previously thought, reports Shaena Montanari for The Transmitter thetransmitter.org/evolution/new-ā¦
Practices that support collaboration and transparency in early-childhood autism intervention trials are inconsistent at best, a new study in the journal Autism shows. Latest from Gina JimĆ©nez for The Transmitter thetransmitter.org/spectrum/reporā¦
The NIH is asking neuroscientists for input on how structural racism impacts brain & behavioral function, as well as study methodology & designs, reports Calli McMurray for The Transmitter. Comments accepted until June 14. thetransmitter.org/policy/nih-seeā¦
'The shame of modern science is that everyone is hyperfocused on their system...It can stifle innovation when people are not broadly trained and donāt step outside their comfort zone.'
Lovely interview of Ishmail Abdus-Saboor by Ingrid Wickelgren for Quanta Magazine.
Love how The Transmitter covered our study ā not copy-paste from press release but quality journalism. Elissa Welle, PhD did 3 interviews with Barbara Hollunder, Ningfei Li and myself, and more w/ Helen Mayberg, MD, The McIntyre Lab, Anastasia Yendiki to write a coherent & balanced piece!
Faulty connections between the subthalamic nucleus & cortex characterize disparate brain disorders --- and figure into an ongoing debate about how best to identify dysfunctional circuitry using diffusion tractography. My latest for The Transmitter thetransmitter.org/connectivity/dā¦
New investigation from my former investigative editor at The Michigan Daily Sammy Sussman ā a must read about Americaās oldest orchestra
Founding editor-in-chief Thomas Lin looks back at a decade of Quanta Magazine journalism and forward to whatās next for the magazine. quantamagazine.org/my-fantastic-vā¦
Pause and read this obit of Larry Young, a neuroscientist known for illuminating oxytocinās outsized role in social bonding, beautifully written by Angie Voyles Askham thetransmitter.org/social-behavioā¦
āWidespread use of Tylenol during pregnancy is simply not an issue': a new study of acetaminophen use during pregnancy compared siblings & found it does not increase childās chance of having autism, ADHD or intellectual disability, reports Calli McMurray thetransmitter.org/spectrum/acetaā¦
IT'S HERE! 'Seeing the Universe Without Sight,' my feature for Sky & Telescope's March 2024 issue.
My deepest thanks to my sources who shared their lived experiences with me and allowed me to tell a part of their story.
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A 2015 study by Nobel-Prize-winning neuroscientist Stanley Prusiner is in the process of correction due to a duplicated image in a figure, according to a study co-author.
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Similar to when I lived above a club in college (no wonder the rent was cheap), neurons in the rat olfactory bulb feel the pulse within the brain, Calli McMurray reports for The Transmitter thetransmitter.org/electrophysiolā¦