Brown University research center promoting brain science discovery.
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New research from Brown's Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research and the Butler Memory and Aging Program shows how to diagnose people with Alzheimer's plus a hard-to-identify dementia type: www.brown.edu/news/2026-03-16/alzheimers-ftld-diagnosis
@ted-huey.bsky.social @daliahross.bsky.social
We're excited to announce this year's Innovation Awards! More than $700,000 to 12 Brown University investigators will fuel the study of addiction, ALS, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety and traumatic injury.
carney.brown.edu/news/2026-05-01/20252026-innovation-awards
The Barnea lab has discovered, in fruit flies, a pair of neurons that makes life or death decisions: www.brown.edu/news/2026-03-18/flies-neurons-taste
@michael-lepori.bsky.social, Ellie Pavlick and @thomasserre.bsky.social have found that LLMs can develop a mathematical “understanding” that differentiates between events ranging from commonplace to impossible.
www.brown.edu/news/2026-04-22/artificial-intelligence-understanding-real-world
Genetically modified nematodes--from the lab of Anne Hart and created by Ph.D. student Diana Wall--provide a new disease model to screen potential treatments for a rare neurogenetic disorder that has no cure.
www.brown.edu/news/2026-05...
@desrocherslab.bsky.social's OCD research is informing potential treatments: www.brown.edu/news/2026-02-06/ocd-brain
Carney's most recent Community Spotlight tells the story of how @bbchelsie.bsky.social rekindled her passion for science through Carney's Advancing Research Careers program. Get the full story here: carney.brown.edu/news/2026-02-09/chelsie-benca-bachman
A patient with ALS and a patient with a spinal cord injury are both able to communicate rapidly through an implantable device: www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...
In new results from a clinical trial, Carney affiliated researchers show that electrical stimulation of the spinal cord can restore the muscle control and sensory feedback required for coordinated walking movements:
www.brown.edu/news/2026-03-11/spinal-cord-stimulation
Meet the trainees co-founding companies to defeat Alzheimer’s disease and other disorders! Larry Heller, Ryan O'Rourke, @dvwz.bsky.social and @ntolley.bsky.social share the story of their entrepreneurial journeys.
carney.brown.edu/news/2026-05-05/ad-spin-offs
Carney Institute for Brain Science
Carney Institute for Brain Science
Carney Institute for Brain Science
Three trainee-led startups are on a mission to fight Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers at Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science identified a pair of neurons that integrate sweet and bitter signals to decide whether something is safe to eat.
The findings could help clinicians use neuropsychiatric symptoms to prepare patients and families for a type of dementia previously only diagnosed via autopsy.
In new results from a clinical trial, researchers show that electrical stimulation of the spinal cord can restore the muscle control and sensory feedback required for coordinated walking movements.
Researchers found differences in how brain regions work together during certain cognitive tasks, which may help clinicians more effectively treat and assess obsessive-compulsive disorder.
New research shows that AI language models can develop a mathematical “understanding” that differentiates between events that are commonplace, improbable, impossible or just plain nonsense.
Genetically modified nematodes provide a new disease model to screen potential treatments for a rare neurogenetic disorder that has no cure.
www.brown.edu
Implantable device research from the BrainGate clinical trial enables communication through rapid typing for a patient with ALS and a patient with a spinal cord injury.
