Bahati Nkera is a 5th year graduate student working in the Barnea lab.

A Carney Institute faculty member has received a $100,000 prize for her work to commercialize an app to better identify and treat chronic pain.

This year’s projects span behavioral and systems neuroscience, circuit therapeutics, computation and modeling, molecular analysis, and Alzheimer’s disease research.

Elena Luchkina is a research scientist at Harvard University working with Dr. Elizabeth Spelke. She is also a research associate at UC Berkeley where she collaborates with Dr. Fei Xu. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Brown University under the supervision of Drs. James Morgan and Dave Sobel in 2019 and completed postdoctoral training with Dr. Sandra Waxman at Northwestern University.

A collaboration between professors Michael Frank and Ellie Pavlick is yielding important results about similarities between how ChatGPT-like AI and the human brain accomplish certain complex tasks, opening the door for transformative research at the intersection of computational neuroscience and computer science.

Arif Hamid is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota.

Dopaminergic therapy and deep brain stimulation can improve the motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD). But both treatments can make patients more impulsive. In a new study, Carney researchers combined experimental testing with computational modeling to uncover two different routes the two treatments take to modify decision-making.

Mathematical neuroscientist Carina Curto led an ambitious semester program at ICERM this fall, attracting neuroscientists and mathematicians from all over the world. She brings her vision to Carney in July 2024.

The wealthiest person on Earth has taken the next step toward a commercial brain interface.

Carolina Haass-Koffler, Stephanie R. Jones and Frederike Petzschner are among the twelve researchers selected as finalists for 2023-24 MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition to support female entrepreneurs in biotech.

Many people are wired to seek and respond to rewards. Your brain interprets food as rewarding when you are hungry and water as rewarding when you are thirsty. But addictive substances like alcohol and drugs of abuse can overwhelm the natural reward pathways in your brain, resulting in intolerable cravings and reduced impulse control.

The prediction of individual treatment responses with machine learning faces hurdles

Michael Lepori is a second-year graduate student working in the LUNAR lab and Serre Lab.

What a year it’s been for brain science at Brown! From exploring the rise of ChatGPT and AI, to the expansion of the fluid biomarkers lab, to awards for innovative new technologies, Carney’s community of faculty, researchers and trainees are pushing scientific boundaries and expanding our understanding of the brain.