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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Brain's language




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Probing the Parliament of Neurons

Clay Reid and colleagues are going deep into the mouse brain to decipher the conversations and decisions of neurons.

SEATTLE — When Clay Reid decided to leave
his job as a professor at Harvard Medical School
to become a senior investigator at the
Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle in 2012,
some of his colleagues congratulated him warmly and
understood right away why he was making the move.
Others shook their heads. He was, after all, leaving one
of the world’s great universities to go to the academic
equivalent of an Internet start-up, albeit an extremely
well- financed, very ambitious one, created in 2003 by
Paul Allen, a founder of Microsoft./.../

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