Inside the Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas: This video shows a composite of 80 injection sites of a viral tracer in the cortex (round spheres) and their major projections into the thalamus. We can clearly see that the spatial pattern of the injections is conserved in the thalamus. Interestingly, projections pass through fiber tracts in the striatum, narrowing through the globus pallidus before fanning out throughout the thalamus, maintaining a high degree of spatial preservation from its co

Go inside your brain! The Allen Institute recently released the first open access database of live human brain cells. | Allen Institute

3.2K views · 115 reactions | Here's a brief video explaining how our researchers are using single-cell gene expression to classify cell types in the brain. The research was published online today in Nature Neuroscience. | Allen Institute | Facebook

On this day in 2006 📆 we completed our Mouse Brain Atlas, an open science, web-based, 3D map detailing more than 21,000 genes at the cellular level. | Allen Institute

What goes into building a massive atlas of connections in the brain? See how we used a big, team science approach to make it happen. | Allen Institute

1.7K views · 25 reactions | What brain cells are impacted in diseases like Alzheimer’s? Together with diverse teams around the world, we are mapping the human and non-human primate brain to better understand what goes wrong in disease. #BrainWeek #studyBRAIN | Allen Institute | Facebook