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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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...11 Jul Arteriovenous Malformation
...AVMs form accidentally prior to birth. An AVM can form almost anywhere in the brain, brainstem, or spinal cord, but they are commonest in the main cerebral hemispheres. An AVM...
14 May Progress on medical research funding – but the crisis isn’t over
...Budget does not resolve this. The Brain Foundation understands what is at stake. Since 1970, we have funded hundreds of Australian brain research projects, with a particular focus on supporting...
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...
16 Oct Neural Infections
...well as neuropsychiatric disorders. Notably, T. gondii infection also results in inflammation in the brain. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke are common forms of brain injury that affect millions...
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...06 Jan Frequently Asked Questions
What will the Brain Foundation do with the donations they receive? Our two aims are to: educate the community about brain and spinal disorders and injuries, and develop avenues for...15 Mar Day 2: All About Stroke, Dystonia & MND
...Brain Foundation research grant for this project, which will be completed in collaboration with Harvard University. Researcher profile | Brain Foundation research grant Dr Joel Maamary, St Vincent’s Public Hospital...
10 Feb Parkinson’s Disease Award
...Smith Brain adaptation underlying remarkable improvement in symptoms of Parkinson’s disease after effective surgical and drug treatment. Dr Stephen Tisch Department of Neurology St Vincent’s Hospital and University of New...
23 May Remembering Tyler James Osmond
...tragic loss. Brain diseases, disorders and injuries can strike any person, at any time. While research has helped improve diagnoses, treatments, and patient outcomes, many conditions can still strike unexpectedly...11 Dec Narcolepsy
Description Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that causes episodes of unpreventable sleep. These episodes can occur frequently and at inappropriate times, for example while a person is talking, eating or...27 Dec Spasmodic Dysphonia
...Spasmodic Dysphonia is sometimes called laryngeal dystonia. Dystonia is a disorder of movement, which need not involve any other functions of the brain. Thus intellect, personality, memory, emotions sight, hearing...
26 Oct Brain Tumour incl. Acoustic Neuroma
Watch Dr Amirali Popat accept the research grant award and hear a bit about the project. Project Summary: Approximately 1900 individuals in Australia receive a diagnosis of brain cancer each...
20 Jan Brain Tumours
PROJECT SUMMARY: Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating primary brain cancer that affects around 800 Australians annually. Despite surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, 1 in 2 people diagnosed with GBM will not...
26 Oct Cerebrovascular incl. Stroke, Aneurysms, AVM
...survivors by 2050. When ischaemic stroke happens, a blood vessel supplying the brain becomes blocked and cuts off oxygen supply to the brain. This causes brain tissue to die. However,...
25 Jan Neuro Trauma Award
...can develop effective strategies to promote functional recovery. Until recently the predominant method for studying brain injury was to examine brain tissue harvested post-mortem from experimental animal models or human...
31 Oct Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
...is one such potential trigger. We, and others, have shown high fat diet can lead to brain inflammation with priming of the brain’s immune cells to be more reactive to...
14 Jan Parkinson’s Disease
...(PD) spread throughout the brain. Amongst the earliest detectable changes in the PD brain is the aggregation of a small protein of unknown function called alpha-synuclein (α-syn). The abnormal, aggregated...
The Brain Foundation is dedicated to funding the next generation of Australian research into brain disorders, diseases, and injuries, with the ultimate goal of advancing diagnoses, treatments, and patient outcomes.There is no cure without research.