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Funding support helps QBI women through maternity leave

Published on: 5 May 2017

Women at QBI recently received grants to support their research through maternity leave.

Dr Rebecca Nisbet, lead author of the ultrasound study

Ultrasound boosts success of Alzheimer’s drug

Published on: 5 April 2017

QBI researchers have found that using ultrasound and an antibody therapy blasts away toxic protein deposits implicated in Alzheimer's disease.

Diagnosing schizophrenia at QBI

Senior research leader Dr Marta Garrido is trying to understand how the brain works in people with schizophrenia, so better diagnoses can be developed.

Podcast: International Women's Day

We talk to three of our female researchers about their passions and experiences in neuroscience.

A condition in which people involuntarily mirror limb movements has been linked to a common developmental disorder.

Mirror genes give clues to developmental brain disorder

Published on: 3 March 2017

A condition in which people involuntarily mirror limb movements has been linked to a common developmental disorder.

QBI Deputy Director, Professor Linda Richards, talks to ABC's Lynne Malcolm about the corpus callosum.

Podcast: Mysteries of the corpus callosum

Professor Linda Richards talks to All in the Mind's Lynne Malcolm about disorders of the corpus callosum.

Two QBI neuroscientists have received prestigious awards to support their research.

Recognition for QBI’s young scientists

Published on: 2 February 2017

Two QBI neuroscientists have received prestigious awards to support their research.

Podcast: Using brain imaging to diagnose mental illness

Dr Marta Garrido, a computational and cognitive neuroscientist, is working on a way to identify the onset of schizophrenia.

QBI scientists identify cause of common developmental brain disorder

Published on: 12 October 2016

QBI researchers have discovered the major cause of agenesis of corpus callosum, a developmental brain disorder.