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Neuroscience

"Crown of Thorns" neurons

Where does consciousness come from? Brain scientist closes in on the claustrum

SAN FRANCISCO — For decades, neuroscientist Christof Koch has been searching for the seat of consciousness — a quest that has taken… Read More

Brain cell reconstruction

They’re alive! Allen Institute harvests data from bits of living human brain tissue

Zapping brain cells from living human tissue? It sounds like a creepy Halloween tale, but for the Allen Institute for… Read More

Christof Koch

Brain scientist Christof Koch maps out a path to merge humans and machines

It may sound like a zombie movie, but Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science is studying fresh human brain tissue… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Women’s Startup Hackathon, Great American Eclipses, and more

Diversity — or lack thereof — in the tech and startup worlds is a persistent problem. But there are plenty of… Read More

Mozak brain screenshot

Mozak turns brain cell mapping into video game, thanks to UW and Allen Institute

A game called Mozak is turning thousands of Internet users into “tracers” who help neuroscientists map out the tangled circuitry of brain… Read More

Paul Allen’s AI2 expands smart search engine Semantic Scholar to neuroscience research

Paul Allen’s non-profit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is expanding its flagship product Semantic Scholar to the world of… Read More

Allen Institute’s leaders lay out vision for bringing more openness to Big Science

Big Science, Team Science, Open Science: In this week’s issue of Neuron, two top executives at Seattle’s Allen Institute for… Read More

Mouse brain map

Annotated guide to the brain: The Allen Institute creates 3-D map of mouse cortex

After years of painstaking work, Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science has completed a digital 3-D map of the mouse… Read More

Deuel at the encephalophone

Listen to the encephalophone, the musical instrument you play with your mind

How many musical instruments can you play without moving a muscle? There’s at least one: the encephalophone, which turns brain… Read More

Nathan Copeland and robotic hand

Brain implant provides sense of touch with robotic hand – and that’s just the start

A dozen years ago, an auto accident left Nathan Copeland paralyzed, without any feeling in his fingers. Now that feeling is… Read More

Brain images

Allen Institute’s atlas of the human brain gets published … as a 350-page atlas!

As neuroscience marches on, researchers are creating more and more brain maps and atlases – but the Allen Human Brain Reference… Read More

Andics and Barack

Brain scans confirm that dogs understand what you’re saying, and how you say it

Scientists have put dogs through brain scans to confirm what pet owners already suspected: Dogs not only comprehend the words we speak,… Read More

Human brain map

New brain map doubles the number of distinct areas in the human cortex

The number of separate domains recognized in the human cortex has doubled, thanks to a newly developed map based on functional… Read More

Rhesus monkey brain

Genes from monkey brains shed light on autism and other neurological mysteries

A project led by Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science has mapped out how genes get fired up in key areas… Read More

Jerome Lecoq and Kate Roll at Allen Brain Observatory

Allen Brain Observatory peers into the minds of mice as they watch movies

The Allen Brain Observatory is open for business, revealing what’s running through the mind of a mouse as it sees patterns… Read More

Brain tissue

Seattle researchers join forces to study brain injury, aging and dementia

Scientists from Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science, the University of Washington and Group Health Research Institute have put together… Read More

Image: Neural connections

Scientists trace the myriad connections in a tiny tangle of mouse neurons

Scientists say they’ve analyzed trillions of bytes’ worth of mapping data from the brain of a mouse to trace the… Read More

Neuron network in brain

Allen Institute joins in IARPA’s massive MICrONS project to create a tiny bit of virtual brain tissue

Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science is in on a multimillion-dollar campaign to trace the connections between the neurons in a… Read More

Brain experiment

Researchers use brain electrodes to read minds at nearly the speed of thought

University of Washington neuroscientists and their colleagues have developed a system that uses electrodes implanted in the human brain’s temporal… Read More

Gene expression in human brain

Allen Institute scientists identify human brain’s most common genetic patterns

Researchers say they’ve traced 32 of the most common genetic patterns at work in the human brain, as part of a mapping project… Read More

New study shows that scientists can predict intelligence from a brain scan

The idea that you were born to do something specific just got a big boost from science. A new study shows… Read More

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