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11 Dec Essential Tremor
...Disorders and Stroke (US) ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Tremor-Information-Page International Essential Tremor Foundation www.essentialtremor.org Reviewed by Dr Victor Fung, MB BS (Hons) PhD FRACP, Director, Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead....06 Feb ARDOC: Australian Register of Disorders of Consciousness
Disorders of Consciousness include Coma, Vegetative State (VS), Minimally Conscious State (MCS) and Locked-in Syndrome (LiS). Many of these damaged patients are unable to communicate yet are fully aware of...
08 Dec NEURO-TRAUMA
...comprehensively characterise how the brain reacts, through inflammatory processes, following a traumatic SCI. In particular, we will investigate whether there is a graded response by the brain dependent on how...
19 Oct Paediatric Neurology Award
...of iodine during brain development. Since the 1960s widespread supplementation has almost eliminated cretinism, which previously affected millions of people in iodine poor regions worldwide, and the problem is regarded...
31 Oct Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
...vascular dementia may be increased in patients with OSA. However, a direct link between these two conditions has not been established. Beta-amyloid deposits (plaques) are found in the brains of...
31 Oct Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
...specific brain regions including the hippocampus and cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain (cBF neurons). The current standard treatments for AD are drugs that aim to promote the function of...
19 Oct Cerebral Diseases Award
PROJECT SUMMARY: Subarachnoid haemorrhage from a ruptured brain aneurysm is a major cause of mortality and morbidity. Cerebral vasospasm often complicates subarachnoid haemorrhage and can lead to stroke or death....
11 Feb Neurodegenerative Diseases Award
Project Summary: Prion diseases are a group of degenerative brain diseases affecting both humans and animals. The disease can be hereditary, with human examples including Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome, fatal familial insomnia,...
08 Dec PAEDIATRIC NEUROLOGY
Watch Dr Iman Azimi accept his research grant and hear a bit about the project. PROJECT SUMMARY: Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common fatal childhood brain cancer. Despite significant advances...
09 Dec NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE
...samples and data. The present study is designed to address these issues by establishing an Australian biobank for paediatric peripheral nerve disorders, with an initial focus on spinal muscular atrophy...
16 Oct Cerebral Diseases
...of aSAH patients go on to have a further secondary brain injury that is preventable. One of the major causes of secondary injury is vasospasm. This spontaneous constriction of cerebral...
16 Oct Alzheimer’s and other neuro degenerative diseases
...of these communication centres is a common feature in brain degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). If they lack key proteins, neurons cannot communicate effectively. This leads to memory impairment, another...26 Aug Ways to Donate
Thank you for considering donating to us and furthering brain research in Australia. Our preferred method of donating is via our online donation form, but if you prefer you can...07 Aug Keeping Women in the Workforce with Migraine
The burden of migraine on women at work According to the World Health Organization (WHO), migraine attacks are the second leading cause of disability worldwide (1). At the Brain...
26 Oct Movement Disorders incl. Parkinson’s & related diseases, Dystonia, Huntington’s
...an incision-less technique, where ultrasound beams are delivered transcranially to create therapeutic lesions in highly specific locations within the brain. Its application in movement disorders and tremor is to target...
26 Oct Migraine & Headache
...long-term is therefore of material importance to clinicians and patients worldwide. Our preliminary research suggests that these medications may impact bone health. With the support of the Brain Foundation, we...23 Aug Signup Confirmed!
...so make sure you are receiving our email. Quick links: Brain disorders A-Z > Research we have funded > BRAINwaves newsletter archive > Create a fundraiser > Donate >...11 Feb Spinal Cord Research Award
Spinal Cord Research Award funded by Marjorie Grace Lawn Estate Hydrocephalus and the role of brain water channels. Dr Brian Owler Neurosurgeon Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Discipline of Paediatrics and...11 Feb Neuro-trauma Award
Neuro-trauma Award funded by Robert W Harvey, Allen & Patricia Ellen Coulson Estate Neck artery trauma and microclots to the brain. Associate Professor Richard Gerraty Alfred Hospital, Monash University Co-Investigators:...11 Dec Huntington’s Disease
...Middle Ages. Also known as Huntington’s chorea. Chorea is derived from the Greek word for dance and describes uncontrolled body movement. HD is an inherited disease of the brain that...10 Feb Migraine Award
...eye – parasympathetic neurons in the sphenopalatine ganglion. In terms of the project currently funded by the Brain Foundation, we plan to further investigate the connectivity and control of these...
20 Jan Neurodegenerative Diseases
...processes in the brain, but the best available techniques are labour intensive and require highly skilled technicians to manually trace target brain structures using the operator’s expert knowledge of neuroanatomy....
20 Jan Neurodegenerative Diseases
...neurodegenerative disorders. Thus, something must be going wrong with α-synuclein, but it has been difficult to determine its role in PD because aspects of its normal function in nerve cells...
20 Jan Neurodegenerative Diseases
...Furthermore, a recent study of community dwelling older adults at one time point described an association between self-reported shorter sleep duration and poorer sleep quality and greater brain amyloid levels...
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