I am Associate Professor of Psychology and Core Member of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Starting from freshman year of high school I began thinking about the mind, brain, and about thinking. My interests stemmed from philosophical conversations with friends, which led me to think a lot about concepts like happiness and life satisfaction.

Congratulations to the winners of the poster awards!

The March for Science has been endorsed by the Society for Neuroscience, the American Association of Geographers, the Society for Freshwater Science, the AAAS, the American Association of University Professors, and the American Anthropological Association.

BIBS continues to reach out to our local community and advocating for science

The Brown Institute for Brain Science has awarded four graduate research awards for the 2016-2017 Academic Year.

Elisabeth Evans, who has an undergraduate degree in architecture from MIT, is working in the laboratory of Diane Hoffman-Kim in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, & Biotechnology.

Alexander Conicella is a PhD candidate in the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry Graduate Program.

Aaron Held has an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a Masters in Biotechnology from Boston University.

David Brandman is working in the laboratory of Leigh Hochberg in the School of Engineering.

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.