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11 Dec Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome
...or kidney cancer. Further Information and Support Click here for the latest Australian research papers on Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome. National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke – USA https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Von-Hippel-Lindau-Disease-VHL-Information-Page...08 Dec NEURO-TRAUMA
...elucidate the mechanisms by which ROCK2 promotes injury following TBI, and test whether ROCK2 inhibition with a highly selective orally available small molecule inhibitor of ROCK2 (KD025) improves cognitive and...30 Nov Neurodegenerative Diseases
...The primary component of these tangles is a protein known as tau which has undergone a chemical change known as phosphorylation. Phosphorylation of tau makes it more susceptible to aggregation...
31 Oct Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
Project Summary: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, affecting ~30% of the elderly population over 75. Although classic symptoms include a decline in memory, the condition...
31 Oct Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating Disorders
...myelitis). Our research team is currently the only group in Australasia that offers the gold standard diagnostic laboratory test (a cellbased assay analysed by flow cytometry) for detecting MOG antibodies...
31 Oct Parkinson’s Disease
...subjects will undergo MRIs to measure the severity of brain changes; neurological testing and scoring to assess motor symptoms, and assessment of cognitive impairment using the appropriate tests. A blood...
07 Nov Cerebral Diseases
...but not yet patients with stroke. Our study will test these imaging methods to analyse brain glutamate levels in stroke patients and will explore whether measurement of glutamate levels may...
07 Nov Brain Tumours
...day treatments include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, drug treatments or a combination of these. Mortality is high in patients with a malignant tumour with only 22% of these patients being alive...
08 Nov Neuromuscular Disease
...measuring tremor. This project aims to combine the use of sensors that measure tremor (accelerometry) and muscle activity (surface electromyography) with clinical assessment to develop new tests for reliably diagnosing...
08 Nov Neuromuscular Disease
...population. Muscle weakness involving the shoulders and hips is a well-recognised complication and affects 60-80% of patients with untreated hyperthyroidism. Despite hyperthyroidism being a common cause of muscle weakness, the...
09 Dec NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE
...tested in all enrolled participants and they will undergo formal gold standard sleep test, polysomnography (PSG), to compare the results. With this protocol we expect to better detect fatigued MS...
08 Dec NEURO-TRAUMA
...muscle, thereby reducing muscle wasting and weakness. To test this hypothesis, we will investigate the effect of miRNA-23a inhibition on nerve repair using an acute nerve crush injury model. Following...
09 Dec CEREBRAL DISEASES
...and binds a radiation-stimulated molecule called phosphatidylserine), and thrombin (a thrombotic agent. We will test the efficacy of various formulations of these phosphatidylserine-targeting pro-thrombotic nanodisks in a flow chamber designed...
16 Oct Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
...may play a role in protecting cells from TDP-43 toxicity. In addition, there are other genes that demonstrated involvement in inhibiting and enhancing the formation of TDP-43 clumps. The next...
16 Oct Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
...of falls. Falls are common and costly: in Australia, a third of community-dwelling older adults (>65 years old) fall at least once a year, with many falls resulting in hospitalization...
16 Oct Cerebral Diseases
Watch Dr Pablo Miguel Casillas-Espinosa accept his research grant and hear a bit about the project. Project Summary: Ischemic stroke is a common neurological condition that often results in debilitating...
16 Oct Neuro-trauma
...treatments are inadequate, with the majority of potential therapeutics failing in clinical trials. The failure of potential therapeutics can partly be attributed to the complexities of the secondary damage and...
23 Oct Neuromuscular Disease
...in treatment resistant cases. There are many criteria to diagnose the immune mediated nerve disorders, however misdiagnosis can be common. Thus some patients with undiagnosed genetic causes being unnecessarily exposed...27 Jul Our Board & Staff
...achieve the aims of the organisation such as BFA and make a positive contribution to our community. Scientific Advisory Committee The Scientific Advisory Committee is an independent group of highly...
19 Oct Neurodegenerative Diseases Award
...In order to do this we will be using behavioural testing, combined with studies of specific cell populations and molecules, to work out how the drug exerts its beneficial effects....
19 Oct Paediatric Neurology Award
...are consistently lower, by as much as 10% on some tests. This has obvious implications because mild gestational iodine deficiency is relatively common, even in areas where the non-pregnant population...
20 Jan Cerebral Diseases
...will also test whether the stem cell treatment is effective in a second stroke model that better mimics some aspects of this disorder in humans. The studies have good potential...
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