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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.
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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.
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More news The gene PDZD8 speeds up cellular recycling, enabling neurons to make synapses during early development, researchers in the O’Connor-Giles lab found.
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The ability to gossip effectively and with such precision is a testament to the mind’s sophistication—a feature, not a bug.
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Krishna Amin, Sicheng Liu, Caroline McLaughlin, Noe Mercado, Rareș Moșneanu and Diana Wall are working to help treat serious brain conditions and to develop groundbreaking tools to advance neuroscience research.
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How rogue jumping genes could spur Alzheimer's, ALS
Our genomes are peppered with DNA segments called retrotransposons that can move from place to place. When unleashed, some can kill nerves and promote inflammation — a discovery that may inspire treatments for neurodegeneration.
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Researchers uncover similarities between human and AI learning
By working to understand how new AI systems integrate flexible and incremental learning, researchers gained insights about the human brain.
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A new study shows that when processing political content, the brains of people with extreme views — regardless whether they identify as left or right — show more similarities than those of political centrists.
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Carney Now
In the latest issue of Carney Now: Close-up on the Human Neocortical Neurosolver tool, new faculty hires, the launch of the Quantitative Scholars summer program, and our research roundup.
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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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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.
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Community Spotlight: Debbie Yee
Yee is a recipient of a competitive NIH Pathway to Independence Award, or K99/R00, which gives postdocs five years of financial support to help them transition into a tenure-track faculty position. Along with postdoc Darcy Diesburg, Yee this fall organized a retreat for Carney postdocs to build community and share resources.
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Tongyin Zheng: Decoding ALS
Tongyin Zheng is a postdoctoral scientist working in the Fawzi lab.
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