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Have you ever been stunned by an optical illusion? It might seem like magic but it’s just a confusing conversation between your eyes and brain.

Queensland Brain Institute's Professor Perry Bartlett’s research is helping fast-track a potential treatment for motor neurone disease (MND).

Businessman Ross Maclean was determined find a cure for Motor Neurone Disease - now you can help him realise his vision at the Ross Maclean Fellowship Race Day at the Gold Coast Turf Club.

Sports broadcaster Pat Welsh will be the keynote speaker at the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR) Public Dementia Forum at the Queensland Brain Institute is on 3 July.

Hikers will raise funds for brain research at the Queensland Brain Institute by taking on the Great Ocean Walk.

After 30 years of growing her hair, Belinda Norrie is losing her locks for two great causes – Priority Research, at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) at the University of Queensland, and Locks for Love.

QBI Associate Professor Thomas Burne answers all your questions about the link between vitamin D deficiency and and cognitive disorders.

Professor Silburn and Associate Professor Coyne are approaching their 1000th DBS surgery. Their important work continues to help people, like Ken Smith, live a normal life.

While there is currently no cure for dementia, promising research at QBI’s Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR) is using non-invasive ultrasound to remove the hallmark plaques of Alzheimer’s disease, and restore cognitive function in mice models.

Ross Maclean was QBI's first philanthropic donor, and it is from his initial generosity that we are launching clinical trials next year for a drug treatment for MND.

Whenever we smell something, our nose and brain work together to make sense of hundreds of very tiny invisible particles, known as molecules or chemicals, that are floating in the air. Inside your nostrils, there are tiny things called neurons that “talk” to each other using electrical messages.

Robyn Hilton shares her very personal experience with dementia as a carer for her husband, Peter, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2000 at the age of 66.

Google recently unveiled its latest talking AI, called Duplex. Duplex sounds like a real person, complete with pauses, "umms" and "ahhs".

To protect groups at high risk of repeated head trauma, we urgently need to find better methods to diagnose concussion.

A brain injury will often show up on brain scans as a well-defined area of damage. But often the changes to the brain extend far beyond the visible injury.