All projects involve collaborations between campus-based and hospital-based faculty members. The goal is to build research teams focused on brain health that include basic and clinical researchers. The awards provide $40,000 for one year and teams are able to apply for a second year of support if they show exceptional progress.

The Brown Institute for Brain Science has awarded BIBS Innovation Awards to five research teams to help these groups launch new, creative research projects with great potential that are too risky and early stage for external funding sources. Thanks to a generous donation, BIBS awards up to $100,000 for one year for each project. A second year of support is also possible on a competitive basis.

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.