How do you visualize brain activity? One way is to illuminate glutamate - a neurotransmitter! ✨🧠 In the brains of most vertebrates, when one neuron interacts with another, its by releasing a packet of a few thousand glutamate molecules. This exchange happens in less than a millisecond! For researchers at the Allen Institute and collaborators, imaging something that happens so quickly is a difficult challenge that is overcome with the help of proteins that glow when they attach to glutamate. Rec

Allen Institute for Brain Science: Recording from 12 neurons at once

🧠🚀 Introducing the Brain Knowledge Platform - the world’s most comprehensive AI-powered tool for neuroscience. This is more than a database. It’s a leap forward in how we study the brain. More on the platform: https://alleninstitute.org/news/unveiling-comprehensive-ai-neuroscience-tool-brain-knowledge-platform/ BKP is supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) #studyBRAIN Initiative. | Allen Institute

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