Last week, we spent five days in Chicago, Ill., exploring emerging science and new tools and technologies with approximately 30,000 neuroscientists at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting.

Neuroscientist Jason Ritt is on a mission to assess the depth of brain science potential at Brown University, and to find ways to facilitate the sharing of ideas and methods across laboratories.

The successful applicant will have an outstanding record of research and teaching, which contributes to the mission of the home department and the Carney Institute. We are particularly interested in scholars who demonstrate commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion in the brain sciences.

Perception and action interact constantly, and a new study by Carney Institute researchers has found that perceptual-discrimination performance improves as actions became more fluent.

The Root 100 is our annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45. It’s our way of honoring the innovators, the leaders, the public figures and game changers whose work from the past year is breaking down barriers and paving the way for the next generation. This year’s list of honorees is a reminder of the beauty and brilliance of blackness, at a time when the political and cultural landscape has grown even more hostile to the idea of black achievement.

Should you sell your stock or buy more of it? What is the best meal to order at your favorite restaurant? Such decisions are often made by considering expected outcomes — but where do those expectations come from?

The International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), the global federation of neuroscience organizations, has elected Brown University professor Jerome Sanes as its treasurer, a title he will assume in January 2020.

Here, we introduce you to the student artists and provide a sneak peek of their work, which is now on display on the fourth floor of 164 Angell Street. Join us for a reception on Friday, September 20, from 3 to 5 p.m., where you will have the opportunity to view the artworks and meet the student artists.

Our conversations covered a broad range of topics, from doing science with limited funding and resources to immigration and visa challenges. I also recognized familiar themes from discussions with our graduate students at Brown: “What are career options outside of academia for people with a Ph.D.? How can we do public engagement on small budgets?”

Through the power of an Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award, Eric Ingram ’21 is embarking on a once-in-a-lifetime research opportunity to uncover new insights that could help people with anxiety disorders.

It was the middle of summer, and Eric Ingram ’21 decided to trade his bathing suit and sandals for brain scanning technology. He was on a mission to collect data for an ongoing study that explores human learning under conditions of uncertainty.

The Carney Institute for Brain Science has awarded four Graduate Awards in Brain Science for the 2019/2020 academic year. These awards recognize early career scientists who have made outstanding achievements as graduate students and have demonstrated strong potential for successful lifelong scientific careers.

Approximately one in five adults in the United States experience mental illness in a given year. However, a new study in the Journal of Neural Engineering could improve patients' abilities to manage symptoms of mental illness.

The discovery of a clock-like cell in mouse brains adds a new twist to the debate over how information travels across neurons.

What do brain science and sailing have in common? The answer is not much, except when you bring together postdoctoral researchers for an all-day retreat that combines scientific enrichment, community-building activities, and a sailing expedition in Newport, R.I.

Brain cells that tick at regular intervals may coordinate neural activity like the conductor of an orchestra.

Neurologist Judy Liu spends a good portion of her time caring for patients with severe neurological conditions. But when Liu steps into her lab at Brown University, she is particularly interested in a single condition: epilepsy.

Every other month the Carney Institute becomes a brainstorming hub for a team of computational neuroscientists working on new software that allows researchers and clinicians to test hypotheses on circuit mechanisms underlying data from electro- and magneto-encephalography (EEG/MEG).

Brown University scientists have found that theta-burst stimulation may be a promising new treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

It’s mid-April and Emily Siff ’19 just got out of the hospital, where she spent a few days experiencing pain that opioids weren’t addressing. “It was overcrowded and noisy,” she recalls. “There was no way to sleep, so I started doing statistics homework. It was so relaxing.”

Blackwater’s breakthrough was to painstakingly train some of the world’s most complex computer software to better analyze fruit fly movements, including the ability to recognize specific behaviors such as courting. Graphing this kind of data used to involve manually converting and labeling it, frame by frame; now it’s a click of a button.

A lot of the basic science that’s needed to lead to new treatments and cures for neurological and psychiatric illnesses is paying off now.