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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 a key research partner in Obama's BRAIN initiative
Puget Sound Business Journal - The Allen Institute for Brain Science has earmarked $60 million annually toward research that will support President Barack Obama’s new initiative for brain research.
Inside Paul Allen's Quest To Reverse Engineer The Brain
Forbes - Paul Allen, the 59-year-old Microsoft cofounder who has plowed $500 million into the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a medical Manhattan Project that he hopes will dwarf his contribution as one of the founding fathers of software.
Paul Allen Gives Millions for Brain Research
The New York Times - Paul G. Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, announced on Wednesday that he would commit $300 million over the next 10 years to turn the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a nonprofit organization he established to build a database of neural information, into a center for basic neuroscience investigation.
