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Rita Allen Foundation: Jeffrey Macklis: Making and Mending the Brain’s Machinery

August 8, 2016

Early in his research career, Jeffrey Macklis set out to unite two seemingly disparate fields of neuroscience: neural development and brain repair. At the time, this was an unorthodox idea, and “being a brain repair guy was a little shady,” he says. Still, he thought, “if we figured out how the brain was built, then maybe we could figure out how to rebuild it or fix it, and we might also be able to figure out something about why it breaks.”

Macklis has made strides in understanding the cells and pathways of the brain’s cerebral cortex, the outer layers of...

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