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20 Jan Neuromuscular Diseases
Project Summary: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common and severe muscular dystrophy of childhood. Affecting 1 in 3,500 boys, the natural history of the disorder is characterised by...11 Feb Neuromuscular Disease Award
...a secondary result, of disease. Changes in these channels may produce the symptoms of disease and/or provide targets for treatment. Long QT syndrome is a cardiac disorder in which patients...
16 Oct Vestibular Disorders
...Aaron Camp and hear a bit about the project. Project Summary: Balance disorders such as Meniere’s disease (MD) are debilitating for sufferers, and pose a significant socio-economic burden on Australia,...26 Aug Ways to Donate
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31 Oct Neuro-Trauma
...harness the brains capacity for plasticity to optimise functional outcome. The use of music therapy as a non-invasive intervention to improve recovery of movement following neurological injury is gaining momentum....12 May Contact Us
...and we will be in touch. Phone: 1300 886 660 or +61 2 9437 5967 Email: info@brainfoundation.org.au Post: PO Box 601, Chatswood NSW 2057 Media enquiries: Would you like to...08 Dec ELIZABETH PENFOLD SIMPSON AWARD
PROJECT ABSTRACT: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a noninvasive brain stimulation technique that has potential for clinical utility in neurorehabilitation. However, recent evidence indicates that the responses to tDCS...
09 Dec CEREBRAL DISEASES
Watch Dr Marcus Stoodley accept the research grant award on behalf of Zhenjun Zhao and hear a bit about the project. PROJECT SUMMARY: Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are abnormalities of...
09 Dec ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER NEURO DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
...diagnosis, disease monitoring, and assessment of response to therapeutic treatment – none of which currently exist for ALS patients. RESEARCH OUTCOME: Thanks to initial funding support from the Brain Foundation,...10 Dec In Memoriam
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31 Oct Higher Cortical Function
...Synaesthesia is intrinsically linked to neural hyperconnectivity and developmental neural plasticity this study may hold benefits in other areas of rehabilitation, for example stroke recovery and brain training. Progress Report...
23 Oct Neuromuscular Disease
...certain nerve disorders. As blood flow changes with inflammation, study of these changes may help improve our understanding of immune mediated demyelinating nerve disorders. The aim of this study is...
26 Oct Multiple Sclerosis & other Inflammatory Diseases
...immune system targets the brain causing damage and swelling called inflammation. This results in severe symptoms such as seizures, involuntary movements, poor memory and even coma. This condition can be...
21 Oct Elizabeth Penfold Simpson Award
...need for therapies that directly target the mechanisms of edema genesis. Neurogenic inflammation, mediated by substance P (SP) binding to the tachykinin NK1 receptor (NK1-r), is associated with blood-brain barrier...
26 Oct Alzheimer’s Disease & other Dementias
...measuring brain activity. The project we propose has huge clinical implications for dementia prevention as tens of thousands of older adults undergo surgeries every year in Australia. If we can...
12 Oct Movement Disorders incl. Parkinson’s & related diseases, Dystonia, Hunting
Watch Dr Joel Maamary accept the research grant award and hear a bit about the project. Project Summary: Dystonias are a group of movement disorders that are characterised by sustained...
12 Oct Cerebrovascular incl. Stroke, Aneurysms, AVM
...due to arterial occlusion, current treatment involves removing the blockage to rapidly re-establish blood flow to compromised brain tissue, however, this often paradoxically leads to ischaemia reperfusion (I/R) injury. I/R...
12 Oct Migraine & Headache
...of the Brain Foundation for their support of this project. Outcomes: Dr Ray and his team measured ten different cytokines prior to starting CGRP monoclonal antibodies (CGRP mAbs) and after...
26 Oct MND / ALS & other Neurodegenerative Diseases
...the Brain Foundation, we will explore the role of clinical, electrophysiological, biochemical, and imaging parameters in a longitudinal study of adult SMA and MND patients. This will involve assessing functional...27 Feb Registration Confirmed
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31 Oct Alzheimer’s Disease & other dementias
...the toxic build-up of 2 proteins in the brain called amyloid beta (A) and tau. Despite decades of research, significant gaps exist in our understanding of the chemical processes that...
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