How do neurons react to magic mushrooms? What happens in the brain when we see motion, or when we recognize grain patterns in a piece of wood? How do our brains track the subtle changes in our friends ...

October 28, 2010—Allen Institute for Brain Science (www.alleninstitute.org) founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen has been awarded the W. J. S. Krieg Lifetime Achievement Award by the Cajal Club ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Allen Institute for Brain Science convened the first ever Allen Brain Atlas Hackathon last week, opening its doors to a diverse group of programmers and informatics ...

SEATTLE, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Academy of Sciences has awarded Hongkui Zeng, Ph.D., with the 2023 Pradel Research Award for her seminal work in deepening science's understanding ...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen may be best known for his contributions to the personal computer revolution. But the billionaire is getting some recognition in another field: neuroscience. Allen was ...

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their ...

Researchers have engineered a next-generation glutamate sensor, iGluSnFR4, capable of detecting the faintest incoming ...

Today, scientists from the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, a division of the Allen Institute, launched the world's first completely open- and crowd-sourced neuroscience experiment—inviting ...

Penn professor and researcher Ishmail Abdus-Saboor will receive grants of $50,000 annually for up to three years to fund his ressearch on the neurological science of pain. Penn professor and ...

Zeng's research to decipher the various cell types and connections in the brain drives progress in the field SEATTLE, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Academy of Sciences has awarded Hongkui ...