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November 20, 2025
News from Brown
From the Lab: Frederike Petzschner maps mind-body connections for improved well-being
The Brown University cognitive neuroscientist studies how the brain and body interact, with the goal of translating insights into treatments and solutions for patients facing a variety of health challenges.
Carney new hire Leenoy Meshulam is June and Howard Zimmerman Assistant Professor of Physics, Neuroscience, and Brain Science.
Stephanie Jones receives 2025 Landis Award for Outstanding Mentorship
Carney-affiliated Professor of Neuroscience Stephanie Jones was honored by NINDS for distinguished interdisciplinary mentorship.
September 4, 2025
News from Brown
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.
August 1, 2025
News from Brown
Brown University neuroscientists help identify a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease progression
Researchers at the Carney Institute for Brain Science have identified electrical activity in the brain that could predict progression to Alzheimer’s disease.
August 1, 2025
News from Brown
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.
July 29, 2025
News from Brown
Brown University to lead national institute focused on intuitive, trustworthy AI assistants
A new institute, based at Brown and supported by a $20 million National Science Foundation grant, will convene researchers to guide development of a new generation of AI assistants for use in mental and behavioral health.
Training AI to see more like humans
Researchers in the Serre lab are teaching AI to see more like humans, opening doors to more accurate AI solutions.
March 5, 2025
News from Carney
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.
February 3, 2025
News from Carney
Carney scientists unveil a new model that demonstrates how humans learn to optimize working memory
The lab of Michael Frank has reconciled theories of how humans store and retrieve information in the short-term, a process called working memory, in a new biologically-inspired computational model. The findings have implications for dopamine-related disorders like Parkinson’s disease, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and schizophrenia.
January 21, 2025
News from Carney
Community Spotlight: Jay Gopal
Jay Gopal is enrolled in Brown’s Program in Liberal Medical Education, which combines undergraduate and medical school education. A researcher in the Serre Lab, Gopal is creating human-aligned deep neural networks and leading the design and development of ClickMe, an object recognition game with thousands of online users who are creating a massive AI training set. He is also co-founder of a medical software startup.
December 16, 2024
News from Carney
Community Spotlight: Ellie Pavlick
Ellie Pavlick is the associate chair of the Department of Computer Science, and a Carney collaborator on artificial intelligence projects that involve natural language processing - a technology that makes chatbots possible. How language works, in humans and machines, is Pavlick's central scientific fascination.