Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science
Our Impact
Discovery that Benefits Humanity
Brown brain scientists are field leaders and field builders and have:
- Created tools and technologies designed to answer key questions about the brain that are used in thousands of brain science labs worldwide
- Made major contributions to our understanding of key brain functions such as vision, memory and cognition as well as the molecular drivers of diseases and disorders from Alzheimer’s disease to autism
- Launched the field of neurotechnology and are now shaping new fields like computational psychiatry and next-generation brain sensing
- Made critical contributions to artificial intelligence, using science about the brain to develop and test machine learning models, and using machine learning methods to investigate the brain
- Written “Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain,” a leading college textbook moving into its fifth edition and translated into six languages
- Taught and trained hundreds of brain science leaders working in industry labs, government agencies and top universities and medical centers around the world