Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science
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The Carney Institute for Brain Science is accelerating the pace of scientific discovery about the brain and helping to find treatments and therapies for some of the world’s most devastating diseases.
Carney Institute
The Carney Institute for Brain Science is accelerating the pace of scientific discovery about the brain and helping to find treatments and therapies for some of the world’s most devastating diseases.
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More news Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat less, raising new questions about the mechanisms involved in regulating human metabolism.
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Weak signals, weak muscles
Researchers led by a team from the Carney Institute have discovered a new role for a protein that helps control muscle contractions – a finding that points to a new target for drugs that treat muscle weakening caused by aging or disease.
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Community Spotlight: Anda Chirila
New faculty member Anda Chirila is no stranger to Brown. In the lab of former Carney affiliate Julie Kauer, Chirila earned a PhD studying synaptic signaling and how it contributes to pain. Now, she is advancing work she began as a postdoc at Harvard: integrating molecular-genetic tools and electrophysiology with computational, anatomical and behavioral approaches to study circuits involved in touch and pain processing.
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Intellectual demands have certain moments that are just transformational. That's exactly where brain science is right now.
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With “trans-Tango,” a technology developed at Brown University and described in a new study in Neuron, scientists can bridge across the connections between neurons to trace — and in the future control — brain circuits.
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What does brain science mean to you?
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Brain Circuits and Behavior
The Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science community is united under the common goal of understanding how brain circuits—networks of interconnected neurons—generate and control complex behavior.
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Carney's community of researchers are pushing the boundaries of brain science.
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Community Spotlight: Anda Chirila
New faculty member Anda Chirila is no stranger to Brown. In the lab of former Carney affiliate Julie Kauer, Chirila earned a PhD studying synaptic signaling and how it contributes to pain. Now, she is advancing work she began as a postdoc at Harvard: integrating molecular-genetic tools and electrophysiology with computational, anatomical and behavioral approaches to study circuits involved in touch and pain processing.
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Community Spotlight: Jay Gopal
Jay Gopal is enrolled in Brown’s Program in Liberal Medical Education, which combines undergraduate and medical school education. A researcher in the Serre Lab, Gopal is creating human-aligned deep neural networks and leading the design and development of ClickMe, an object recognition game with thousands of online users who are creating a massive AI training set. He is also co-founder of a medical software startup.
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Community Spotlight: Ellie Pavlick
Ellie Pavlick is the associate chair of the Department of Computer Science, and a Carney collaborator on artificial intelligence projects that involve natural language processing - a technology that makes chatbots possible. How language works, in humans and machines, is Pavlick's central scientific fascination.