What this is, and what it isn't.
Most neuroscience writing falls into one of two buckets. Pop-science articles are readable but loose, sensationalizing findings, oversimplifying mechanisms, occasionally getting the underlying science slightly wrong. Academic writing is accurate but impenetrable to anyone outside the field.
The Neuroscience Review lives in the gap. Accuracy that doesn't compromise readability. Readability that doesn't compromise accuracy.
The promise
Every post here is written with two readers in mind. One is a smart non-scientist who reads the New York Times science section. The other is a science-literate reader who would notice, and care, if something is hand-waved. The discipline of the blog is never losing either one in the same post.
What you'll find here
Paper breakdowns. One recent neuroscience paper, unpacked without spin. What they did. What they found. What it doesn't mean. What's still unknown.
First-principles deep dives. Foundational concepts like what a neuron is, what dopamine actually does, and how memory really works, built up from scratch, so the rest of the blog has somewhere to point.
What you won't find
- Headlines that promise more than the underlying study delivers.
- Mouse studies described as if they apply to humans.
- Correlation framed as causation.
- Words like "amazing," "mind-blowing," or "groundbreaking" doing the work that the science should do on its own.
About the editor
Cameron Hunterton founded and edits The Neuroscience Review. He studies neuroscience at Columbia University, where he researches in the Darcy Kelley lab. His work also spans psychiatry, including research with Ragy Girgis, MD, a Columbia psychiatrist who studies the causes of mass violence and severe mental illness, and clinical orthopedics at Mount Sinai with Melissa Leber, MD, a sports-medicine physician who directs player medical services at the US Open. He started the site to write the kind of neuroscience he wished existed when he was first learning the field, and is now opening it up to other researchers and writers who care about getting the science right.
Get in touch at theneuroreview@gmail.com.