Brown’s Herbarium is digitizing tens of thousands of plants preserved over two centuries.
Sharon Swartz and Stephen Helfand were elected for “distinguished contributions” to their fields.
An $8 million NIH grant will expand community asthma care program led by two Medical School researchers.
Brains use brief bursts of beta waves, rather than sustained rhythms, to control attention and perception.
The finding may point to future treatments for some severe cases of epilepsy.
Experts call for better research, clinical practice, and neuroscience studies of mindfulness and meditation.
The brain meets biotechnology as Brown neuroscientists earn funding to study biomedical technologies.
Study shows where in the brain primates log correct outcomes; findings could improve TBI care.
The director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science will assume the post next year.
Study findings may help prevent inpatient psychiatric care.
Unique primary care residency program hangs in budget balance, despite primary care shortage.
In experiments with college students and lab worms, scientists find new genetic clues to sleep.
Mindfulness class helps women, but not men, overcome a downcast mood, study finds.
New biomedical innovation fund makes two grants to accelerate the commercialization of technologies.
New federal grant expands initiative to increase PhD student diversity beyond the life sciences.
Long discouraged, for-profit medical education has established a renewed foothold in the US.
Sickle cell trait may lower blood sugar readings, causing missed diagnoses and treatment.
New technology could allow creation of fertilized embryos using non-reproductive cells. But at what cost?
But after 6 weeks, patients given opioids were more likely to still be taking them.
Alpert Medical School professor Adam Levine answers questions about managing cholera in Haiti.
