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For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible

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Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 14

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.

www.nytimes.com

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Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

$1.3 million grant to Brown to expand research on the role of blood-brain barrier in decision making

Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 21

New work from the Moore lab could reveal an unexpected role for the blood-brain barrier in how we make decisions:

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...

Social success not about who you know – it’s about knowing who knows whom

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Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 23

New work from the lab of Brown University researcher
Oriel FeldmanHall reveals an unexpected key to becoming influential in your social network:

Knowledge trumps popularity in the long haul of trying to be influential, researchers say

www.theguardian.com

Golden eyes: How gold nanoparticles may one day help to restore people’s vision

Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · May 1

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.

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.

Could blocking ‘jumping genes’ help fight disease and aging?

Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Apr 23

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

The first clinical trials are testing inhibitors of transposons, DNA sequences that hop around the genome on their own

www.science.org

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Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Apr 8

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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Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 28

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 🧠

Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 27

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 🧠

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Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 27

We're so excited to see what you learn!

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Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 26

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 🧠

Bird brains help scientists to unveil the secrets of speech

Reposted by Carney Institute for Brain Science

Nature @nature.com · Mar 19

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

Neural underpinnings of vocalization in zebra finches and budgerigars.

go.nature.com

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Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 19

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 🧠

Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 17

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 🧠

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Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 6

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 🧠

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Carney Institute for Brain Science @carneyinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 5

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 🧠 💻