Carney Conversations

Carney Conversations is a series of discussions with world-class experts on intriguing topics in brain science — from addiction to the mysteries of the adolescent brain to robotics and innovation.

More Human Than Human? - ChatGPT

 

 

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests:

  • Ellie Pavlick, Manning Assistant Professor of Computer Science
  • Thomas Serre, Associate Director of the Center for Computational Brain Science, Director for the Center for Computation and Visualization, Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Professor of Computer Science

Can a drug used to treat HIV also treat Alzheimer's?

 

 

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests:

  • Meghan Riddle, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinician Educator at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and Interim Director for the Memory and Aging Program at Butler Hospital
  • John Sedivy, Ph.D., the Hermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology and Associate Dean and Director of the Center for the Biology of Aging at Brown University. 

Health disparities in the brain

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests:

  • Monica Rivera-Mindt, Professor of Psychology, Fordham University; President of the Hispanic Neuropsychological Society
  • Diana Grigsby, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and of Epidemiology, Brown University

The science of sleep and why slumber might rebalance your brain and behavior

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests:

  • Mary Carskadon, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
  • Richard Millman, Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Medicine

How we decide to love

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests:

  • Debbie Yee, Postdoctoral Fellow in Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences
  • Joey Heffner, Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology

Getting a jump on Alzheimer’s disease

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests:

  • Yu-Wen Alvin Huang, GLF Translational Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
  • Hwamee Oh, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

How uncertainty impacts decision-making

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests:

  • Emily Oster, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Economics
  • Amitai Shenhav, Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences

Risk, Failure, & Success: Finding the right balance

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests:

  • Nancy Zimmerman, a 1985 Brown graduate, a trustee of the University’s Corporation, and the co-founder and managing partner of Bracebridge Capital
  • Adam Korn, a 1997 Brown graduate and chief information officer at Sixth Street Partners

 

The next generation of scientists on the future of brain science

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests:

  • Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D. candidate in the Neuroscience Graduate Program
  • Marc Powell, a 2021 graduate of Brown's Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and postdoctoral associate at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery
  • Jae-Young Son, Ph.D. candidate in cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences

CRISPR and the role of gene editing in neuroscience

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guest:

  • Kate O’Connor-Giles, Provost’s Associate Professor of Brain Science, Brown University

From a Brown dorm room to a potential treatment for neurodegenerative diseases

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests:

  • Josh Cohen, Brown alumnus and co-founder/co-CEO of Amylyx
  • Justin Klee, Brown alumnus and co-founder/co-CEO of Amylyx 

COVID-19 and the brain

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guest:

  • Dr. Karen Furie, Samuel I. Kennison, M.D., and Bertha S. Kennison Professor of Clinical Neuroscience; Chair of Neurology at Brown University

From idea inception to real-world solutions

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guest:

  • William Martin, Ph.D. ’95, Global Therapeutic Area Head of Neuroscienc, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson

How the brain gets things done

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guest:

  • David Badre, Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University

Making advances in Alzheimer’s research from the bench to the bedside

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests:

  • Dr. Stephen Salloway, Martin M. Zucker Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University; Director of Neurology and the Memory and Aging Program, Butler Hospital 
  • Ashley Webb, Richard and Edna Salomon Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University 

Restorative Neurotechnology

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests:

  • Dr. Leigh Hochberg, Professor of Engineering, Brown University
  • David Borton, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Brown University

Computational approaches for EEG/MEG brain recordings

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests:

  • Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University
  • Frederike Petzschner, Carney Institute Fellow in the Center for Computational Brain Science 

How emotions can foster disease prevention behaviors during COVID-19

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guest: Oriel FeldmanHall, Manning Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University

Resources: Perspective: Emotional appeals increase social distancing behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic

Humans to robots

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guest: Stefanie Tellex, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Brown University

What can drunk flies tell us about addiction?

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guest: Karla Kaun, Robert and Nancy Carney Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

What are they thinking? Decision making and the adolescent brain

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guest: Beatriz Luna, Staunton Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics; Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh

Resources: CerebroSinFiltro, a project referenced during the discussion. 

How rule-breaking and innovation feed new knowledge

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guest: Stefan McDonough, a 1990 graduate of Brown University and executive director of genetics at Pfizer

How does SARS-CoV-2 target the sense of smell?

Moderators:

  • Diane Lipscombe, Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Christopher Moore, Associate Director, Carney Institute

Guests: