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Mind trip: How psilocybin changes the brain

New research may help improve psychedelic therapy for neuropsychiatric disorders

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Allen Institute for Brain Science unveils world's first genome-wide spinal cord atlas

Landmark atlas holds vast potential to accelerate life-changing spinal cord research

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Autism Speaks spearheads collaborative grant with the Allen Institute for Brain Science and leading autism expert to analyze frontal lobe microstructure in autism

Research may provide insight into the biological causes of autism

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Allen Institute for Brain Science launches three new landmark atlas projects focusing on the human brain, developing brain, and spinal cord

Projects have vast potential to help scientists worldwide gain new insight into neurological diseases and disorders

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Allen Institute for Brain Science completes brain atlas

Allen Brain Atlas has enormous potential to help unlock the mysteries of neurological diseases and disorders affecting millions worldwide

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Allen Institute for Brain Science Announces First Major Data Release from its Brain Atlas

Atlas Will Further Research into Brain Function, Behavior and Diseases Worldwide

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Paul G. Allen Commits $100 Million to Brain Research

Seed Money Creates Allen Institute for Brain Science and Unprecedented Brain Atlas Project

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media / Seattle Times

New building to boost research firepower at Paul Allen’s brain institute

The Seattle Times - After years crammed into four buildings, the Allen Institute for Brain Science is opening a new Seattle headquarters intended to help expand and accelerate its work.

media / STAT News

Brain research gets a new nerve center at Allen Institute headquarters

STAT - Some of the best science here gets done in the coffee line.

media / Puget Sound Business Journal

Sneak peek: Inside the Allen Institute's new headquarters

Puget Sound Business Journal - The Allen Institute’s new 270,000-square-foot headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood opens Friday. Here's a look inside.

media / Curbed

Preservation, Sustainability & Collaboration: The New Allen Institute HQ Opens

Curbed Seattle - This Friday, The Allen Institute officially opens it's new six-story, 270,000-square-foot headquarters at 615 Westlake Ave. N.

media / Forbes

Paul Allen's Latest Surprising Revelation About The Human Brain

Forbes - Scientists at the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Brain Science—backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen—have spent more than a decade building an intricate map of the human brain.

media / Washington Post

Thought process: Building an artificial brain

The Washington Post - Paul Allen has been waiting for the emergence of intelligent machines for a very long time.

media / Nature

Connectomes make the map

Nature - Working at a variety of scales and with disparate organisms and technologies, researchers are mapping how parts of the brain connect.

media / The Economist

What is consciousness?

The Economist (interview with Christof Koch, Ph.D.) - Understanding what consciousness is, and why and how it evolved, is perhaps the greatest mystery known to science.

media / HuffPost

How Brain Science Explains the Way We See #TheDress

HuffPost - Upon the electronic distribution of a picture of nothing more than a dress, we saw the birth of the stalwart White-and-golders and the die-hard Black-and-bluers.