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12 Mar Traumatic Brain Injury in Australia
Event Home > A live webinar recording from Brain Awareness Week There are many different types of traumatic brain injury (TBI), with symptoms and recovery timelines varying widely. In this...11 Mar Transient Ischaemic Attack
...within the brain (cerebral haemorrhage), or (c) rupture of a blood vessel into the space surrounding the brain (subarachnoid haemorrhage). About 50% of patients who subsequently have a stroke due...
16 Jan Traumatic Brain Injury Award
Project Summary: This project seeks to investigate a potential therapeutic antibody (MAR-1) that can limit the damage of traumatic brain injury. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents the major cause of...
20 Jan Brain Tumours
...brain tumours will uncover new targets for brain tumour therapies in the future, and also point to potential new blood tests for the diagnosis or monitoring of brain tumours. ...
31 Oct Alzheimer’s Disease & other dementias
...sleep is to flush out brain waste that accumulates during the day. This includes proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease, the commonest form of dementia. Brain waste clearance depends on Aquaporin-4...11 Dec Prader-Willi Syndrome
...the brain is damaged through injury or surgery. The disorder occurs in 1 in 12,000 – 15,000 births, in both sexes and all races. The name of the syndrome is...11 Dec Tourette Syndrome
...Syndrome Association – USA www.tsa-usa.org National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke – USA www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/tourette-syndrome Worldwide Education & Awareness for Movement Disorders (WE MOVE) – USA www.wemove.org Reviewed February...11 Dec Sydenham’s Chorea
...latest Australian research papers on Sydenham’s Chorea. International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society https://www.movementdisorders.org/MDS/About/Movement-Disorder-Overviews/Chorea–Huntingtons-Disease.htm National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Sydenham-Chorea-Information-Page Reviewed by Associate Professor James Colebatch...
19 Jul Finding a Neurologist
...muscle. However, just like any doctor, they will often specialise in a certain area or disorder. For example, a practice might have one neurologist that specialises in degenerative disorders (like...
16 Oct Brain Tumours
Project Summary: Gliomas are the most prevalent brain tumours and predominantly arise from glial cells. The World Health Organization (WHO) grades gliomas on a scale of I to IV, reflecting...
16 Oct Brain Tumours
...blood markers that can differentiate between patients with brain tumours and healthy controls with over 99% accuracy. We plan to validate this panel during the monitoring of patients with brain...13 Mar Sleep and Brain Health
Event Home > A live webinar recording from Brain Awareness Week Sleep is crucial for everyday cognitive function and long-term brain health, but have you ever wondered why it is...
12 Oct MND / ALS and other Neurodegenerative Diseases
...that the hypothalamus (a part of the brain that regulates appetite) might be impacted by disease. Using emerging technologies, we will define the impact of disease on cells within brain...
31 Oct Brain Tumour incl. Acoustic Neuroma
...Thank you to the donors and Brain Foundation for supporting this research. Previous research In 2022, A/Prof Rebecca Lim received a Brain Foundation Research Grant for the project ‘Target therapies...
09 Dec NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE
...of the funding provided by the Brain Foundation. Project Summary: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease affecting the brain and spinal cord. There are over 25,000 Australians...
31 Oct Multiple Sclerosis & other Inflammatory Diseases
...that measures brain electrical activity which can change in different brain diseases. It gives a real-time assessment of the severity of brain dysfunction. Therefore, EEG may be useful in subtyping...
31 Aug Brain Foundation launches national GP education program on migraine
...appropriate referral when specialist care is needed. Funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, the Brain Foundation, through its Migraine & Headache Australia division, is expanding...
16 Oct Cerebral Diseases
...Protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A). However, we have shown that in a number of neurodegenerative diseases, like traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and epilepsy, PP2A dysfunction and tau its hyperphosphorylated. This...
20 Jan Cerebral Diseases
...accommodate the swollen brain and although life saving, it is highly invasive and potentially risky. As a result, alternate treatments for brain swelling that address the cause of the swelling...
19 Oct Neuro-trauma Award
...adults worldwide. Neuroprotective treatments to reduce brain damage associated with TBI are currently lacking, which makes developing effective treatments of paramount importance. Any treatment that minimises brain injury associated with...
27 Jan Brain Tumour Award
Project Summary: Brain tumours are the leading cause of cancer related death and disability in children. The Royal Children’s Cancer research laboratory is focused on improving our understanding of medulloblastoma,...11 Dec Batten Disease
...disorder include delayed psychomotor development with progressive deterioration, other motor disorders, or seizures. The infantile form has the most rapid progression and children live into their mid childhood years. Late...
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