Congratulations to the class of 2023 from the Carney Institute for Brain Science. The future is in good hands.

Robyn St. Laurent is postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brown in 2019.

The promotion of professors Arturo Andrade, Edward Walsh, and Michael Worden takes effect July 1, 2023.

The Carney Executive Committee evaluated a pool of junior faculty members who were nominated this winter for their mentorship of undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral scientists, as well as medical students or residents.

Chloe Zimmerman is an M.D./Ph.D. Candidate in Neuroscience working in Stephanie Jones and Frederike Petzschner’s labs.

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.