“Scientists create first ‘atlas of the brain’ - and release it online so researchers across the world can unlock our mind’s secrets”

The Allen Institute for Brain Science, based in Seattle, created the atlas so that other researchers can compare and contrast their own findings from brain scans and genetic surveys, with the hope that having a ‘baseline’ to work from will unveil more secrets about psychiatric conditions. (…) This allows us for the first time to overlay the human genome on to the human brain. ’It gives us essentially the Rosetta stone for understanding the link between the genome and the brain, and gives us a path forward to decoding how genetic disorders impact and produce brain disease.’