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.

In this video, Carney Institute Director Diane Lipscombe explains how she investigates calcium ion channels, the gate keepers of most of the signals that are essential for our brain and nervous system to function. She also shares what sparked her interest in science.

As we come to the end of another dynamic academic year, we at the Carney Institute for Brain Science would like to take a moment to congratulate the undergraduate class of 2019 and graduate students who will receive their diplomas this weekend.

For uniting engineers, data scientists, and others under one roof, director of the Carney Institute for Brain Science Diane Lipscombe is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People of 2019.

One of the things that makes the brain so interesting is that the activity of the neurons is just as important as their shape. Neurons fire electric pulses at one another, and these electric pulses form the basis of how we process information every day. A group of neurons might look fine, but if they aren’t communicating properly, devastating cognitive issues can result.

The workshops culminated in several projects that used neural networks as design tools, and students said they gained an understanding of how to integrate artificial intelligence with art and design.

Our second annual Undergraduate Practicum in Bioluminescence held at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in beautiful Woods Hole, Massachusetts, was a huge success!

Professor Diane Lipscombe, director of the Carney Institute, says that the importance of these Innovation Awards cannot be overstated. “They open up so many opportunities to catalyze great research into brain science, making Brown the best place in the world to discover, innovate, and develop new technologies,” says Lipscombe.