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20 Jan Parkinson’s Disease
...can protect the brain against the damage associated with PD and partially restore normal movement. Yet it is unclear exactly how this treatment has its protective effects. Most previous work...
20 Jan Elizabeth Penfold Simpson Award
...cells was not to replace the neurons that died in the brain following the stroke, but it was other effects, such as factors that the cells secrete in the brain...25 Jan Migraine Award
...brain, but the controls for that circuitry are higher up- in the cerebral cortex, the conscious part of the brain. When a migraineur encounters one of her trigger factors, some...
25 Jan Epilepsy Award
Project Summary: Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common form of adult-onset epilepsy, and patients unresponsive to drug treatments for epilepsy may require surgical removal of brain tissue to...
27 Jan Parkinson’s Disease Award
Project Summary: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is caused by degeneration of dopamine-releasing (dopaminergic) neuronal circuits in the brain. Treatment involves dopaminergic medications, but the effectiveness of these medications is drastically limited...
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...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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
19 Dec Kyan’s story: The Impact of Aneurysm
...ruptured brain aneurysm when he was just fifteen years old. Over the past two years, his family, friends, and community have been grappling with this devastating loss. In the face...
20 Jan Cerebral Diseases
...around the area of damage in the brain. These nerve cells take on functions of cells that were lost during the stroke. There is growing interest in producing treatments that...
19 Jan Congratulations to our 2021 Research Grant Recipients
For over 50 years, our primary objective has been to support the highest quality Australian research into brain diseases, disorders, and injuries. The events of 2020 were an unprecedented challenge,...
31 Oct Chronic Headache and Migraine
...of a biomarker of headache. Migraine is the most prevalent disabling neurological disorder and has a major impact on health resources. Prevalence of migraine is more common than asthma and...
19 Oct Neurodegenerative Diseases Award
PROJECT SUMMARY: Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal disorder involving psychiatric symptoms, dementia and uncontrollable movements. The disease is caused by a ‘genetic stutter’ in a single stretch of repeated...
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....
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