An Academic Unit of George Mason University
The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study is also an academic unit of George Mason University. It houses two Mason academic departments: Molecular Neuroscience and the Department of Computational Social Science and plays a key role in two doctoral interdisciplinary doctoral programs, one in neuroscience and the other in social complexity.
The Institute recently hosted the kick-off event for a new initiative, "The Decade of the Mind" which will urge the U.S. Congress to invest in understanding how mind emerges from brain.
The Institute also recently entered into a close collaboration with the Janelia Farm Campus of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the National Institutes of Health to develop better methods of reconstructing neuronal architectures.
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