David Borton and Jared Fridley’s Intelligent Spine Interface (ISI) implant, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), aims to restore movement to victims of spinal injury.

Nikos Tapinos is an associate professor in the department of neurosurgery and Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox associate professor of ophthalmology and visual science.

How does dopamine help us make important decisions? What kinds of learning scenarios best enable us to become proficient at something? And why does overthinking sometimes hinder learning? Professor Michael Frank’s lab has published scholarship that responds to these questions.

Lifespan’s Norman Prince Spine Institute and Brown University are working together to research the effectiveness of spinal implants on paralyzed veterans and other patients.

Carney Associate Professor of Neuroscience Karla Kaun will spend five months in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where all drugs have recently been decriminalized.

A new mobile app developed by researchers at Brown University’s brain science institute is looking to find what happens in the brain during the transition from acute to chronic pain.

Through an innovation awards program, the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science will provide $564,000 in seed funding for new high-impact research in computation, visual science, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.

Matt Nassar is an assistant professor in the department of neuroscience. He is the principal investigator in the Learning, Memory & Decision lab which uses computational models to better understand how the brain represents and stores information for effective decision making.

Sofia B. Lizarraga, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry.

Michael A. Long, Ph.D. 2003, is a professor in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology in the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Depression is an epidemic in the United States. A mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest, some 21.0 million adults in the United States, or 8.4% of the population, had at least one major depressive episode in 2020.

Ted Huey is the director of the Memory and Aging Program at Butler Hospital, an affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and a research associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Nina Gray earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience at Brown University in 2006. She is the Assistant Vice Provost for Research at New York University.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) was founded in 2015 to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from eradicating disease and improving education, to addressing the needs of our local communities.

Butler Hospital and Brown University have launched a new research study to find methods for early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.

Heather McCrea graduated from Brown University in 2002 with an ScB in Biochemistry. She is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Holtz Children's Hospital/Jackson Health System and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Miami.

Sonia Mayoral is an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience and an assistant professor of brain science at the Carney Institute of Brain Science.

It's been a busy year at Carney. From the 2022 Society for Neuroscience meeting, to the development of technologies to assist people with ALS, to groundbreaking work in Alzheimer's detection, the Carney Institute has been making waves in all things brain science.