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Lab Notes | Building a consciousness meter with Christof Koch
May 26, 2022
Neuroscientist Christof Koch is leading an effort to build a consciousness meter that could have real-world applications to determine whether coma patients are in a true vegetative state.
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SciShots: A quartet of brain cells
May 20, 2022
Scientists are sifting through the hundreds of thousands of brain cells present in a cubic millimeter of mouse brain
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Why is the human brain so difficult to understand? We asked 4 neuroscientists.
April 21, 2022
Thoughts, memories, sensations — why are we still in the dark about how they work?
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SciShots: A quartet of brain cells
May 20, 2022
Scientists are sifting through the hundreds of thousands of brain cells present in a cubic millimeter of mouse brain
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New research to understand how the brain handles optical illusions and makes predictions
May 9, 2022
3 new projects launch on OpenScope, a shared neuroscience observatory
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Why is the human brain so difficult to understand? We asked 4 neuroscientists.
April 21, 2022
Thoughts, memories, sensations — why are we still in the dark about how they work?
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A day in the (neuroscience) life: OpenScope
March 18, 2022
Scientists on the OpenScope team help share the Allen Institute’s ‘observatory of the mind’ with the larger scientific community
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A day in the (neuroscience) life: Electron microscopy
March 17, 2022
Researchers on the EM team are viewing the brain in unprecedented detail
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Cell Type Knowledge Explorer
March 17, 2022
Examine multimodal data from thousands of cells across three mammalian species with the Cell Type Knowledge Explorer
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A day in the (neuroscience) life: Human cell types
March 16, 2022
Scientists in this laboratory are exploring the molecular details of human — and other primate — brain cells
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Science in Sixty | Luke Campagnola
March 16, 2022
When Luke Campagnola isn't investigating the complexities of mammalian brain circuitry, he's spending time with family and practicing parkour.
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A day in the (neuroscience) life: Electrophysiology
March 15, 2022
The researchers in this laboratory spend their days eavesdropping on neurons’ electrical chatter
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A day in the (neuroscience) life: Tissue Processing
March 14, 2022
The researchers in this lab prepare brain tissue for several other teams at the Allen Institute
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SciShots: A sneak peek of a new Alzheimer’s disease project
March 11, 2022
Researchers are in the early stages of investigating the brain cells most vulnerable to this devastating form of dementia
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How do our neurons connect? New study probes the details of human and mouse synapses
March 10, 2022
‘Multipatch’ technique catalogs more than 1700 connections between neurons in publicly released dataset
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SciShots: Neurons in crisp, clear detail
March 4, 2022
Electron microscopy reveals the stunning 3D shapes of mouse visual neurons
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SciShots: A crown of neurons
February 25, 2022
Brain-wide neuron tracing of cells in the mouse claustrum, a mysterious structure that’s highly connected to the rest of the brain
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SciShots: A neuron’s love connection
February 18, 2022
A specialized team of neuroscientists at the Allen Institute spend their days painstakingly tracing neurons’ complex branching structures
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SciShots: A star-shaped human brain cell
January 28, 2022
Scientists catch a glimpse of a rare kind of human astrocyte
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New technique sorts out what different kinds of neurons do in the brain
January 7, 2022
Study pinpoints a mouse neuron’s role in sensing touch
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Hundreds of small molecules known as neuromodulators might influence how we learn
December 17, 2021
New models that capture how the brain retains information could also improve machine learning
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Allen Institute launches new division to study brain circuits and behavior in mammals
November 4, 2021
Seattle’s Allen Institute has launched a new division called The Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, which will explore how the brain executes complex actions like decision making, learning and memory.
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