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17 Mar Migraine Expert Q&A
Event Home > A live webinar recording from Brain Awareness Week Migraine is a complicated and debilitating disorder which affects an estimated 4.9 million Australians. In this webinar, Dr Catherine...04 Aug Share your story
Sharing your experience with brain disease, disorder, or injury can help inspire hope, build community, and drive change. We would love to hear from you. Margot Chiverton My story is...11 Dec Essential Tremor
...is unknown in the remainder. If ET runs in the family, each child with an affected parent will have a 50% chance of inheriting the disorder. In most people, ET...
22 Sep Alarming AIHW figures more than double Australia’s migraine estimate
...also shows that migraine is 1.6 times as common among women as men and is most prevalent during the working-age years. The Brain Foundation, through its Migraine & Headache Australia...10 Dec Acoustic Neuroma
...ear to the brain. The cochlear division is responsible for transmitting information about hearing and vestibular division is responsible for balance. An acoustic neuroma is a benign tumour that develops...
25 Jan Neuro-Vascular Disease Award
Project Summary: Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the brain are complex vascular lesions that most commonly present with stroke. Bleeding from AVMs accounts for only 2% of all strokes, but is...
30 Oct Alzheimer’s Disease & other dementias
...suggests damage to the brain’s white matter also plays a key role. White matter contains myelin, a fatty coating that insulates nerve fibres and enables smooth communication between brain cells....
20 Jan Cerebral Diseases
...of stroke. We hypothesise that treatment with progranulin will reduce brain damage and improve outcome when given intravenously after stroke. In order to evaluate the therapeutic potential of progranulin, animal...
16 Oct Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
...in the brain and spinal cord that leads to muscle weakness, wasting, and paralysis. It is an inevitably lethal disease with a lifetime risk of ~ 1 in 400 Australians....
23 Oct Cerebrovascular incl. Stroke, Aneurysms, AVM
...Watch the full interview with Dr Jorn Van Der Veken below. Project Summary: Brain aneurysms are bulges that form in the blood vessels of the brain. They are found in...12 Mar Understanding Dementia: Recognising Signs, Providing Support
Event Home > A live webinar recording from Brain Awareness Week Dementia is one of the most prevalent neurological diseases in Australia. In this presentation you will learn practical information...
09 Jan In Memory of Chris Taylor
...the work of the Brain Foundation. “We gave those who signed up to the mailing list a welcome gift – a Brain Foundation stress ball, bag, or cap. The day...
09 Dec ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER NEURO DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
...have greater rates of brain volume loss with aging, but it is not known which patients will develop dementia over time, and which factors will predict cognitive impairment in these...
01 Nov ALZHEIMER’S & OTHER NEURO-DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
...before clinical presentation, at a point when the minimum disruption to the brain has occurred. One of the greatest challenges in clinical neurology therefore is to identify individuals most at...
31 Oct Cerebral Diseases
Project Summary: Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are abnormalities of blood vessels, in which direct connections form between arteries and veins. The high-pressure arterial blood injects into fragile cerebral veins and...
19 Oct Neuro-trauma Award
Project Summary: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes more deaths in Australians under 45 years of age than any other cause, with survivors often left with serious neurologic deficits. The World...
19 Oct Parkinson’s Disease Award
...supported by the Brain Foundation, detected the involvement of two types of brain systems controlling balance; intermittent and continuous. Intermittent control was indicated by the appearance of abrupt redirections of...
11 Feb Paediatric Neurology Award
...disease such as multiple sclerosis (MS). In young children however, monophasic brain demyelination is common (named acute disseminated encephalomyelitis-ADEM). Patients with ADEM usually have sudden onset post-infectious brain disease with...
20 Jan Parkinson’s Disease
...the molecular pathophysiology of MSA has been barely investigated. In particular, there have been no systematic studies of the perturbation of the brain transcriptome during the onset and persistence of...
29 Apr Locked-in Syndrome International Conference 2026
...more about the event schedule and how to register below. Locked-in syndrome is a rare neurological disorder in which patients are unable to move anything except their eyes, despite being...24 Mar Migraine Expert Q&A
Event Home > A live webinar recording from Brain Awareness Week Migraine is a complicated and debilitating disorder which affects an estimated 4.9 million Australians. In this webinar, Dr Michael...26 Apr Headaches (various types)
Visit our Migraine & Headache Australia website for information about headache and migraine. Migraine & Headache Australia is part of Brain Foundation. On our Migraine & Headache Australia website you...
14 Jan Friedreich Ataxia Award
Project Summary: Friedreich’s Ataxia (FA) is an inherited disorder that results in progressive degeneration of the nervous system and heart. The onset of symptoms of this debilitating condition occur in...
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