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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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Introducing the Allen Brain Observatory
“The Allen Institute is known for our atlases-deep, high quality data sets revealing where genes are expressed and how cells and connections are...
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Allen Institute Launches Brain Observatory
Dynamic resource to observe neurons in action provides unprecedented window into how the brain perceives the visual world
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Allen Brain Observatory launched
The Allen Institute for Brain Science today announced the release of the Allen Brain Observatory: a highly standardized survey of cellular-level...
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Allen Institute releases powerful new data on the aging brain and traumatic brain injury
The Allen Institute for Brain Science has announced major updates to its online resources available at brain-map.org, including a new resource on aging and brain injury.
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Research on largest network of cortical neurons to date published in Nature
Even the simplest networks of neurons in the brain are composed of millions of connections, and examining these vast networks is critical to...
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The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group UC Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna a New Allen Distinguished Investigator
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group today named Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., at the University of California, Berkeley an Allen Distinguished Investigator...
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Paul G. Allen Announces $100 million to Launch The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group will explore the landscape of bioscience and support ideas at the frontier of knowledge to advance science.
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IARPA awards $18.7 million contract to Allen Institute for Brain Science, as part of project with Baylor College of Medicine and Princeton University, to reconstruct neuronal connections
Largest reconstruction of connections between cortical brain cells ever created will shed light on how the brain computes information
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Seeing eye to eye with cell types in the retina
Many types of cells are involved in visual tasks, from gaze control to eye movement reflexes, and even dictating circadian rhythms. This complexity...
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Data Stories | Exploring the teenage brain
Researchers at the University of Cambridge merged data from the Allen Human Brain Atlas with MRI brain scans and made an important discovery about the...
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Gene Map of Human Brains May Lead to New Drugs, Scientists Say
Bloomberg - Scientists have created a $55 million interactive map that shows where genes are activated in the human brain, an aid to researchers developing treatments for disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and autism.
