The Dec. 12 event was sponsored by the Brown Club of Boston and the Brown Women's Leadership Council. Photos by Nicole Yankelovich Mordecai '83.

With a new five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health, the Center for Central Nervous System Function will launch five research projects and develop new analysis tools to advance brain science at Brown.

“If we can understand the neurobiological mechanisms of how the brain is developing differently as a consequence of early-life stress, using our animal model, then we can better understand what types of things we need to do to get children back on the right course for healthy brain development.”

“For years, the BrainGate collaboration has been working to develop the neuroscience and neuroengineering know-how to enable people who have lost motor abilities to control external devices just by thinking about the movement of their own arm or hand,” said Dr. Jaimie Henderson.

We seek post-doctoral (MD or MD/PhD) clinician-scientists and post-doctoral (PhD) neuroengineers/computational neuroscientists.

Despite that tool’s widespread use, some researchers say a more empirical approach would better serve both patients and the physicians who provide care.

Current suicide predictors are not powerful, but neuroscience graduate students at Brown University got an exclusive look at novel approaches to suicide prevention.

Through the Innovation Awards program, the Carney Institute seeks to support risky, early stage projects that are too new to attract external funding. Each $100,000 award funds the project for one year, renewable for a second year on a competitive basis. Junior Principal Investigators (those at the Assistant Professor level) receive a $32,000 supplement.

The project is a risky gamble, but it’s one that could reap great rewards. It’s also emblematic of how brain science is practiced at Brown.

The Hyundai Visionary Challenge, hosted by Brown and sponsored by Hyundai Motor Company, is officially open for video submissions. The portal will remain open until Monday, October 15.

Mitochondrial abnormalities have been implicated in other psychiatric conditions, according to another study published in February that shares two authors with Schwede’s paper.

Applicants were judged on a number of criteria, including their commitment to a career in neuroscience, the strength of their training plan and the quality of their current research projects as graduate students.

The Carney Institute for Brain Science has awarded five Graduate Awards in Brain Science for the 2018/2019 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.

The show aired June 16-18, the audio version can be heard here, and The Providence Journal published a summary of the conversation.

Linden suggests that the book is ideally suited "to accompany a seminar-style course for first year graduate students, undergraduates or even bright high-schoolers."

The ultimate goal of the society is to elucidate the molecular pathways through which genes together with the environment affect behavior. Dr. Kaun will receive the award and present her latest research at the IBANGS meeting in Rochester, May 17-20, 2018.

University fair hosts 35 exhibits as part of week-long effort to present brain science in R.I.

These awards support brain science projects involving scientists from any of the institutions represented on the RINLC: Brown University, University of Rhode Island, Lifespan Hospitals, Care New England Hospitals, and the Providence VA Medical Center.

Project teams will be encouraged to work as entrepreneurs to advance technologies for medical devices, create innovations, and translate their ideas into solutions within neuroengineering. Prizes will be awarded to the top teams at the end of the semester program-wide competition.

The Corporation approved the appointment of the following faculty to named chairs at this and other recent meetings.

Brain-computer interfaces sound like the stuff of science fiction. Andrew Palmer sorts the reality from the hype.

The trial is designed for cognitively healthy adults, aged 60 to 75 years old, who carry at least one copy of the APOE4 gene and have a build-up of cerebral amyloid in the brain, both risk markers for Alzheimer’s.

The Brown Institute for Brain Science has awarded six graduate research awards for the 2017/2018 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.

Congratulations to the winners of the poster awards!