The entire lab is very excited to welcome the latest addition to Amanda and Marco's family! Elisa Anne Verzelles was born this past...

As Brown prepares for the cold New England winter, the Kaun Lab was baking cookies for our annual Sweet Swap. We all went home with a...

Dr. Kristin Scaplen spoke about her research in the Addiction Talk Podcast hosted by Joy Sutton on November 15, 2023. Addiction Talk is...

Neuroscience Graduate Program (NSGP) Student Tariq Brown and NSGP Rotation Student Hanna Hammedy attended the Annual Society for...

Congratulations to undergraduate student Miauaxochitl Haske who presented her Honor's thesis work on volatilized nicotine sensitivity in...

Celebratory lunch with members of the Kaun Lab

Dopamine determines how reward overrides risk

Congratulations to John Hernandez and Tariq Brown on their new open access Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Neuroscience entry on...

Our Annual Lab Retreat was held at Colt State Park in Bristol, RI again this year. We enjoyed listening to each other's chalk talks and...

Research Assistant Positions

Every few months the lab holds a Book Club and this summer we read and discussed Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) awarded the Kaun, O'Connor-Giles and Larschan labs a collaborative 5 year R01 Grant to...

Congrats to the undergraduate students on presenting their summer projects at Brown's Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium!...

Listen to lab collaborator Dr. Kristin Scaplen from Bryant University being interviewed by Arun Rath on WGBH's All Things Considered in...

Undergraduate Eve Glenn was recently highlighted in the 2023 Edition of IMPACT, the Research at Brown Magazine. Eve won the 2022 Richard...

The Research Society on Alcohol was held in beautiful Bellevue, Washington June 24-28 this year. Karla presented the Kaun lab's work on...

Friday we took a short trip to Like No Udder, a local vegan ice cream shop, and enjoyed some tasty summer treats. New undergraduates...

Karla and Tariq presented at the 2023 Mushroom Body Meeting in Gottingen, Germany. The city of Gottingen's primary feature is the...

The annual International Behavioral and Neural Genetics Society, Genes Brains and Behavior Meeting was in beautiful Galway, Ireland this...

Congratulations to graduating seniors Rohan Freedman and Owen Wogmon. Both graduates performed excellent work during their time in the...