Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science

Benjamin Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D. leads two related lines of research focusing on the development of brain circuit-based treatments in neuropsychiatry. At Butler Hospital, Brown’s adult psychiatric hospital, his group works on the neurocircuitry of noninvasive brain stimulation in OCD, using transcranial neuromodulation and neuroimaging. This occurs in the context of an NIGMS Cobre Center, of which he is the PI. At the Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology (CfNN) at the Providence VA Medical Center, where Dr. Greenberg is Associate Director, the research team focuses on studying effectiveness and predictors and mechanisms of action of neuromodulation for depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the affective dimension of chronic pain. The latter work uses computational approaches, in collaboration with Dr. Stephanie Jones.