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.
University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have identified how nerve cells stay connected to the surrounding skin despite the wear and tear of everyday movement.
Researchers at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have highlighted how acetylcholine signalling interacts with dopamine pathways in the brain, findings that may help explain how a new class of schizophrenia treatments works.
Researchers from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute have helped uncover a new clue about how the skin detects harmless warmth and cool, and the finding may change how scientists think about temperature sensation.
Researchers from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have found evidence that tiny cellular “spaceships” called vaults may play an important role in how the brain forms memories.
