Carney Institute for Brain Science
@carneyinstitute.bsky.social
Brown University research center promoting brain science discovery.
New faculty member Leenoy Meshulam is an @alleninstitute.org's Next Generation Leader. In this latest review, she and co-author William Bialek detail new possibilities for statistical mechanics in understanding neuronal networks. journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract...
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New faculty member Leenoy Meshulam is an @alleninstitute.org's Next Generation Leader. In this latest review, she and co-author William Bialek detail new possibilities for statistical mechanics in understanding neuronal networks. journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract...
In their NeuroView, out in Neuron this week, Ellie Pavlick and @thomasserre.bsky.social ask, “Will AI foundation models transform neuroscience?”
www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273%2825%2900752-4
www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273%2825%2900752-4
From prediction to understanding: Will AI foundation models transform brain science?
Deep-learning approaches using massive data have transformed AI and are reshaping
science. We ask when AI foundation models will transform neuroscience, outlining critical
success conditions and a shi...
www.cell.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
In their NeuroView, out in Neuron this week, Ellie Pavlick and @thomasserre.bsky.social ask, “Will AI foundation models transform neuroscience?”
www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273%2825%2900752-4
www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273%2825%2900752-4
Op-ed from Oriel FeldmanHall, featuring insights from her work: "Social networks typically include ... tens of thousands of possible connections. To predict where a piece of gossip might travel, you need to calculate which of many paths it might travel. That is a staggering amount of mental math."
Gossiping Is Smarter Than You Think
The mental machinery that helps us spread rumors also helps us thrive in an interconnected world.
time.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Op-ed from Oriel FeldmanHall, featuring insights from her work: "Social networks typically include ... tens of thousands of possible connections. To predict where a piece of gossip might travel, you need to calculate which of many paths it might travel. That is a staggering amount of mental math."
Analyzing strengths and weaknesses of different learning strategies in an artificial neural network offers new insights about the human brain:
Researchers uncover similarities between human and AI learning
By working to understand how new AI systems integrate flexible and incremental learning, researchers gained insights about the human brain.
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September 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Analyzing strengths and weaknesses of different learning strategies in an artificial neural network offers new insights about the human brain:
Incredible work on brain-computer interface technology that can decode "imagined" inner speech. The research team, led by Stanford University, includes Carney-affiliated Professor of Engineering Leigh Hochberg and Brown alumni David Brandman PhD’18, MD, and Sergey Stavisky ’08 of UC Davis.
For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible
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August 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Incredible work on brain-computer interface technology that can decode "imagined" inner speech. The research team, led by Stanford University, includes Carney-affiliated Professor of Engineering Leigh Hochberg and Brown alumni David Brandman PhD’18, MD, and Sergey Stavisky ’08 of UC Davis.
July ended on a high note! Read about the "Dolphin Tank" that is starting to become a favorite summer tradition:
Empowering graduate students to think entrepreneurially about brain technology
Graduate students from Brown University and Ben-Gurion University put their brains together in a unique summer practicum to invent and pitch ideas for neurotechnology startups.
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August 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
July ended on a high note! Read about the "Dolphin Tank" that is starting to become a favorite summer tradition:
New work from the Moore lab could reveal an unexpected role for the blood-brain barrier in how we make decisions:
$1.3 million grant to Brown to expand research on the role of blood-brain barrier in decision making
Researchers from Brown’s Carney Institute will investigate how the blood-brain barrier is involved in transmitting information to the brain, informing potential treatments for brain diseases and disor...
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July 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
New work from the Moore lab could reveal an unexpected role for the blood-brain barrier in how we make decisions:
New work from the lab of Brown University researcher
Oriel FeldmanHall reveals an unexpected key to becoming influential in your social network:
Oriel FeldmanHall reveals an unexpected key to becoming influential in your social network:
Social success not about who you know – it’s about knowing who knows whom
Knowledge trumps popularity in the long haul of trying to be influential, researchers say
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June 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
New work from the lab of Brown University researcher
Oriel FeldmanHall reveals an unexpected key to becoming influential in your social network:
Oriel FeldmanHall reveals an unexpected key to becoming influential in your social network:
A new study by Carney researchers suggests that gold nanoparticles injected into the retina can successfully stimulate the visual system and restore vision in mice with retinal disorders.
Golden eyes: How gold nanoparticles may one day help to restore people’s vision
A team of Brown University researchers has identified a promising new approach that may one day help to restore vision in people affected by macular degeneration and other retinal disorders.
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May 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A new study by Carney researchers suggests that gold nanoparticles injected into the retina can successfully stimulate the visual system and restore vision in mice with retinal disorders.
Could blocking ‘jumping genes’ treat diseases and aging? Brown researchers Bess Frost, director of Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, and John Sedivy, director of the Center for the Biology of Aging, are featured in the latest Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... #brownbrainscience
Could blocking ‘jumping genes’ help fight disease and aging?
The first clinical trials are testing inhibitors of transposons, DNA sequences that hop around the genome on their own
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April 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Could blocking ‘jumping genes’ treat diseases and aging? Brown researchers Bess Frost, director of Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, and John Sedivy, director of the Center for the Biology of Aging, are featured in the latest Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... #brownbrainscience
New findings published in @natureneuro.bsky.social by the lab of Alexander Fleischmann, Provost's Professor of Brain Science at Brown University, show surprising similarities between the mouse olfactory cortex and the cerebral cortices of reptiles and amphibians. bit.ly/4joIGkr #BrownBrainScience 🧠
The reptile brain is real
Carney scientists have discovered that the part of the cerebral cortex that processes smell is similar in mice, reptiles and amphibians–a surprising finding that rewrites the story about the evolution...
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April 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
New findings published in @natureneuro.bsky.social by the lab of Alexander Fleischmann, Provost's Professor of Brain Science at Brown University, show surprising similarities between the mouse olfactory cortex and the cerebral cortices of reptiles and amphibians. bit.ly/4joIGkr #BrownBrainScience 🧠
With a storied past stretching back more than a century, the Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown University is stepping into its future. Learn more about our key partners who study the mind - and where they're headed. bit.ly/4l8SMaO #BrownBrainScience 🧠
March 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
With a storied past stretching back more than a century, the Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown University is stepping into its future. Learn more about our key partners who study the mind - and where they're headed. bit.ly/4l8SMaO #BrownBrainScience 🧠
From software to sensors, models to molecules, tools made by Carney researchers not only fuel brain science discovery at Brown, but at thousands of university, nonprofit and private labs on five continents. Check out our ingenious inventions - and inventors at bit.ly/4l1N6iV
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
March 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
From software to sensors, models to molecules, tools made by Carney researchers not only fuel brain science discovery at Brown, but at thousands of university, nonprofit and private labs on five continents. Check out our ingenious inventions - and inventors at bit.ly/4l1N6iV
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
The @carneyinstitute.bsky.social Zimmerman Innovation Awards in Brain Science have killer ROI with about $5M in seed funds resulting in $166 million in external funding for projects on Alzheimer's disease to autism to AI. Details on this year's crop of awards: bit.ly/3XyiSd5
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
March 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The @carneyinstitute.bsky.social Zimmerman Innovation Awards in Brain Science have killer ROI with about $5M in seed funds resulting in $166 million in external funding for projects on Alzheimer's disease to autism to AI. Details on this year's crop of awards: bit.ly/3XyiSd5
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
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Neural recordings from parrots and songbirds reveal the ways in which vocal production is encoded in the brain, highlighting remarkable similarities between how parrots and humans learn to produce sounds.
https://go.nature.com/4bImwai
https://go.nature.com/4bImwai
Bird brains help scientists to unveil the secrets of speech
Neural underpinnings of vocalization in zebra finches and budgerigars.
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March 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Neural recordings from parrots and songbirds reveal the ways in which vocal production is encoded in the brain, highlighting remarkable similarities between how parrots and humans learn to produce sounds.
https://go.nature.com/4bImwai
https://go.nature.com/4bImwai
Associate director, @cimoore444.bsky.social, spoke at last week's National Academy of Engineering symposium to talk neuroengineering - a field pioneered at Brown - and how it can be harnessed to do the seemingly impossible. Like cross the blood brain barrier to deliver AD drugs. bit.ly/3DEUX58 🧠
March 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Associate director, @cimoore444.bsky.social, spoke at last week's National Academy of Engineering symposium to talk neuroengineering - a field pioneered at Brown - and how it can be harnessed to do the seemingly impossible. Like cross the blood brain barrier to deliver AD drugs. bit.ly/3DEUX58 🧠
Psssst: Brain science is the best science. And we got to share the secret with Rhode Island on Saturday, when families packed the Brown Brain Fair to learn about our beautiful brains and how research makes the discovery possible. The full scoop: bit.ly/2025brainfair
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
March 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Psssst: Brain science is the best science. And we got to share the secret with Rhode Island on Saturday, when families packed the Brown Brain Fair to learn about our beautiful brains and how research makes the discovery possible. The full scoop: bit.ly/2025brainfair
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
Free, family-friendly, fun!
Come out for the Brown Brain Fair powered by local high schoolers and @carneyinstitute grad students. You'll find lots of hands-on goodness: games, art, and demos plus fast, fun science talks. Open to all.
🧩 💯 🎨 🔥 🌈 🔬 ✋
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
Come out for the Brown Brain Fair powered by local high schoolers and @carneyinstitute grad students. You'll find lots of hands-on goodness: games, art, and demos plus fast, fun science talks. Open to all.
🧩 💯 🎨 🔥 🌈 🔬 ✋
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
March 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Free, family-friendly, fun!
Come out for the Brown Brain Fair powered by local high schoolers and @carneyinstitute grad students. You'll find lots of hands-on goodness: games, art, and demos plus fast, fun science talks. Open to all.
🧩 💯 🎨 🔥 🌈 🔬 ✋
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
Come out for the Brown Brain Fair powered by local high schoolers and @carneyinstitute grad students. You'll find lots of hands-on goodness: games, art, and demos plus fast, fun science talks. Open to all.
🧩 💯 🎨 🔥 🌈 🔬 ✋
#BrownBrainScience 🧠
This month a new concentration launches at Brown - computational neuroscience - and Ah-Young Moon was the first to declare. Brown is one of a handful of U.S. schools to offer it to undergrads in a move that's quintessentially Brown: student-led and cross-disciplinary. The scoop: bit.ly/4hqFC65 🧠 💻
March 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This month a new concentration launches at Brown - computational neuroscience - and Ah-Young Moon was the first to declare. Brown is one of a handful of U.S. schools to offer it to undergrads in a move that's quintessentially Brown: student-led and cross-disciplinary. The scoop: bit.ly/4hqFC65 🧠 💻
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Recent discoveries are reshaping how scientists understand the neuroscience and biology of drug addiction, according to a new #ScienceSignaling Review that discusses the latest findings, future research priorities, and emerging therapies. scim.ag/3DguvOY
The biology of addiction
Insights into the biology of addiction and their potential translation into advances in therapy are discussed.
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March 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Recent discoveries are reshaping how scientists understand the neuroscience and biology of drug addiction, according to a new #ScienceSignaling Review that discusses the latest findings, future research priorities, and emerging therapies. scim.ag/3DguvOY
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New! Brown University now has a Computational Neuroscience undergraduate B.S. degree! Fun read on how this was developed on the @carneyinstitute.bsky.social website. carney.brown.edu/news/2025-03...
A new computational neuroscience concentration, powered by Brown undergrads and Carney affiliates, arrives with spring
With the launch, Brown becomes one of a handful of U.S. universities with an undergraduate curriculum that marries neuroscience with computer science and math.
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March 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
New! Brown University now has a Computational Neuroscience undergraduate B.S. degree! Fun read on how this was developed on the @carneyinstitute.bsky.social website. carney.brown.edu/news/2025-03...
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So excited about our new Computational Neuroscience concentration (major) @carneyinstitute.bsky.social carney.brown.edu/news/2025-03...
A new computational neuroscience concentration, powered by Brown undergrads and Carney affiliates, arrives with spring
With the launch, Brown becomes one of a handful of U.S. universities with an undergraduate curriculum that marries neuroscience with computer science and math.
carney.brown.edu
March 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
So excited about our new Computational Neuroscience concentration (major) @carneyinstitute.bsky.social carney.brown.edu/news/2025-03...
High five to Debbie Yee 🙌 for winning one of three Brown University awards for outstanding postdoctoral researchers.
Yee won for community-building - something she's done in spades at Carney, including co-organizing a postdoc retreat this fall. 🏆⭐🍎 Congrats! #BrownBrainScience🧠
Yee won for community-building - something she's done in spades at Carney, including co-organizing a postdoc retreat this fall. 🏆⭐🍎 Congrats! #BrownBrainScience🧠
March 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
High five to Debbie Yee 🙌 for winning one of three Brown University awards for outstanding postdoctoral researchers.
Yee won for community-building - something she's done in spades at Carney, including co-organizing a postdoc retreat this fall. 🏆⭐🍎 Congrats! #BrownBrainScience🧠
Yee won for community-building - something she's done in spades at Carney, including co-organizing a postdoc retreat this fall. 🏆⭐🍎 Congrats! #BrownBrainScience🧠
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🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 The Black in Neuro Mentorship Program 2025 is coming soon! 🌟 Interested in being a mentor or mentee? Scan the QR code to fill out an interest form or reach out via email. Let’s build the future of #neuroscience together! 💜 #BlackInNeuroMentorship #Mentorship #PhDSky #BlackInSTEM 🧪
January 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 The Black in Neuro Mentorship Program 2025 is coming soon! 🌟 Interested in being a mentor or mentee? Scan the QR code to fill out an interest form or reach out via email. Let’s build the future of #neuroscience together! 💜 #BlackInNeuroMentorship #Mentorship #PhDSky #BlackInSTEM 🧪
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Awesome colleague and awesome Center!
Bess Frost, head of the Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research, has joined the board of the @alzassociation.bsky.social Rhode Island. Thanks to Providence Business News for the coverage: bit.ly/4kgDRLn
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#BrownBrainScience 🧠
March 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Awesome colleague and awesome Center!