A tiny cluster of neurons deep in the brain could help researchers understand how we pay attention, and what happens when the systems that keep us alert are disrupted.
QBI donor Robyn Hilton distinctly remembers the dark and drizzly evening a hotted-up Cortina rumbled up their steep driveway. A young university student gently helped her husband out of the car, saying, “You’re home now, Peter.”
Queensland company Intracellica Bio has been awarded more than $1.6 million in government funding to advance a QBI-led research project developing antibodies that target the toxic Tau protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease.
QBI researchers have highlighted how a molecule that helps the body respond to injury and infection may also play a key role in some of the most complex brain diseases.
Edna Downing's bequest to the Queensland Brain Institute grew from a deeply personal wish to support dementia research after her husband, Peter, lived with the condition.
A rising Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) researcher is taking her expertise to the international stage after being awarded a highly competitive Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship to undertake postdoctoral research.
Swimmer Drew Eastwood from Brisbane Jets has won medals at championship level and developed a passion for understanding how exercise affects both the body and brain. That’s why QBI’s brain health study caught his attention.
A major international study has uncovered a surprising mechanism that increases the risk of certain genetic diseases, overturning decades of scientific thinking about the human X chromosome.
The rapid movements our eyes make every day could help scientists better understand progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP - a rare and complex brain disease.
