NIH Renews Brain Function Research Grant
Brown’s Center for Central Nervous System Function to launch new projects, develop new analysis tools. Brown University’s Center for Central Nervous System Function, part of the Carney Institute for...
View ArticleSlow Burn
Stress from using electronic health records is linked to physician burnout. While electronic health records (EHRs) improve communication and access to patient data, researchers found that stress from...
View ArticleThis is Their Lane
Firearm safety is the responsibility of health care professionals, physician writes in the NEJM. News of mass shootings has become devastatingly common in the United States, and at the same time the...
View ArticleMicrobiomes of Mice and Men
Gut bacteria regulate the intestinal immune system by moderating vitamin A levels. A team of researchers from Brown University found that in mice, the gut microbiome regulates the host’s immune...
View ArticleBlood Ties
DNA markers in healthy centenarians are more like those of 20-year-olds than 70-year-olds. Researchers have discovered age- and health-related differences in fragments of DNA found floating in the...
View ArticleRight at Home
A new center focused on inflammatory bowel disease treats the whole patient. Melissa Cote started feeling sick a few days after her 40th birthday in 2017. At first, she thought it was the stomach...
View ArticlePlaying It Safe
With science on his side, a Brown physician works to reduce concussions in youth sports. Peter Kriz was a pediatrician in general practice in 2005 when he saw a patient who changed the trajectory of...
View ArticleFood Is Life
Toxic chemicals contaminated the ponds on their tribal land. A URI-Brown research team is helping the Narragansetts navigate the problem. Native people in the US have higher rates of heart disease,...
View ArticleImmersed in Science
The NeuroPracticum at the Marine Biology Laboratory introduces Brown graduate students to neuroscience techniques. It’s a bitter cold morning in Woods Hole, MA. By 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 22, the...
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