Brown University neuroscientist Carlos Aizenman is studying the brains of tadpoles to understand how neural circuits develop and absorb information from the surrounding environment.

The Brown Institute for Brain Science is pleased to announce the selection of two postdoctoral scientists, whose investigations into the basic science behind migraine disorder are made possible through the generosity of the Association of Migraine Disorders and the Blue Yak Foundation.

The report calls for a 10-year research program, funded with $4.5 billion, to accelerate the development of technologies and theory to help understand how the brain’s complex neural circuitry produces cognition, emotion, perception, and action in health and disease.

Glycine is one of the three most important neurotransmitters, yet there is much that scientists still don’t know about glycinergic synapses, including ones in the spinal cord that play a role in pain.

Treatment, much less cure, has been elusive. Brown scientists are on the case.