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19 Oct Epilepsy Award
...when the child has a focal brain area from which the seizures arise. Cortical malformations are areas of the brain that did not form normally during the pregnancy. The most...14 Nov Spinal Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leak
...the spinal dura and the CSF leaks out. When this fluid volume is reduced, there is less fluid available to support the normally floating brain inside the skull. The resulting...08 Dec NEURO-TRAUMA
...primary insult is irreversible, however, the secondary injury is a driven largely by the ensuing inflammation that causes further cell death in the brain and adversely affects brain function. Importantly,...
16 Oct Cerebral Diseases
...remove these clots and restore blood flow to the brain, to prevent extensive and permanent damage to brain tissue. “Clot-busting” drugs that dissolve the blood clot (rtPA) are currently used...
31 Oct Cerebral Diseases
...the CCM lesion to be in a respectable part of the brain. Due to CCM lesions presenting in variable size, number and locations in the brain, surgical removal is often...
16 Oct Neural Infections
...therapeutic targets for drug development. Zika virus causes brain damage mainly by targeting a type of immature brain cells called neural progenitor cells (NPCs), which divide and mature to form...
15 Apr Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension – Hayley’s Story
...little awareness about IIH, and she is committed to changing this by speaking out about her experience. Brain Foundation: Can you please tell us a bit about yourself, and how...
27 Oct Other (Syringomyelia)
...enters the spinal cord and brain where it probably helps to maintain a constant biochemical environment for precise function of brain and spinal cord cells. Despite the critical role of...
27 Oct Multiple Sclerosis & other Inflammatory Diseases
...is affected by treatment switching or cessation using the latest brain imaging technologies to identifying patients at risk of worsening disease. Patients will have brain scans using a 7 Tesla...
31 Jan Margot’s story: Living with Dystonia
...can read below. Brain Foundation: Can you tell us a bit about your story? What was your life like before you were diagnosed with dystonia, and what was the process...
26 Oct Cerebrovascular incl. Stroke, aneurysms, AVM
...the brain bulges out, often leading the vessel to rupture and blood to leak into the brain and the subarachnoid space (vascularised space between the brain and the skull). This...23 May Big Trivia
...to raise money for brain research than by challenging your brain! Thank you to Aspen and Allergan for their support, and to PR Consultant Kate Dorrell for her pro-bono time...
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...
31 Oct Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
...proteins in the brain leads to loss of brain cells, thus causing a decline in memory and thinking, and as the disease progresses, a loss of self-care. Currently, there is...
19 Jan Parkinson’s Disease Award
...refractory to treatment including medication and conventional forms of deep brain stimulation. Deep brain stimulation is a rapidly evolving therapy, where electrical stimulation is applied to specific brain regions via...10 Feb Migraine Award
...in the brain- the brainstem. But the controls for that circuitry are higher up- in the cerebral cortex, the conscious part of the brain. Migraine triggers cause neurons in the...10 Dec Acoustic Neuroma
...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 when the specialized...
14 Jan Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis Award
...centrally, namely in the brain, peripherally, in the muscles and nerves, or whether it is multifocal. Recent studies have suggested that ALS begins within the brain and that brain overactivity,...15 Jan Alzheimer’s Disease Award
...onset AD. We need to understand the underlying biology to address these gaps. This project will assess the functioning of the vascular system within the brain in AD and a...
15 Jan Paediatric Neurology Award
...evidence of brain injury, including stroke, on brain scans and at least another third have evidence of new brain injury after surgery. Children with heart disease are the most important...10 Dec Alzheimer’s Disease
...In 2019 A/Professor Peter Noakes was the recipient of Brain Foundation grant funding into Alzheimer’s – click for more. In 2018 A/Professor Amy Brodtmann was the recipient of Brain Foundation...
19 Jan Cerebral Metastases Award
PROJECT SUMMARY: Melanoma is one of the deadliest tumours known to humans with the highest propensity of all primary cancers to metastasize to the brain. Despite recent advances in targeted...
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