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A syndrome that increases the risk of developing schizophrenia is also linked to increased sensitivity to repeated sounds.

Queensland Brain Institute student Esmi Zajaczkowski has won a 2018 Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship.

A non-invasive potential treatment for Alzheimer’s has been used safely on older brains, researchers from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have confirmed.

Queensland Brain Institute scientists have discovered a new pathway in the brain that regulates the return of traumatic memories and fear.

Electrical stimulation applied to the brain during training can boost performance on new, untrained tasks controlled by the same brain areas.

Scientists from QBI and the  School of Biomedical Sciences are now initiating a clinical study of patients with sleep apnoea to determine whether treatment lowers the risk of developing dementia.

Dr Martin Sale is investigating if the brain can be made more resistant to age-related decline by artificially boosting sleep-like brain activity. 

QBI researchers have discovered where the highest rate of genetic mutations occurs in mitochondrial DNA.

QBI researchers have found that general anaesthetics act on the brain in a more complex way than previously thought. The discovery could lead to improved drugs for surgery.

The best neuroscience images from QBI in 2017 have been announced.

QBI has been very successful in the 2017 rounds of research funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and Australian Research Council (ARC).

Brain research will step to the next level when a powerful supercomputer is built at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute.

Your ancestry can impact the risk of developing motor neurone disease (MND), new research shows.

QBI welcomes 11 new Summer Research Scholars.

Research into brain development and schizophrenia has led to international acclaim for Professor John McGrath AM, recipient of Denmark’s Strömgren Medal.

QBI researchers are a step closer to understanding why a toxic protein builds up in brain cells dying from Alzheimer's disease.

A new type of cell for twilight vision has been found in the eye of a deep-sea fish, and scientists say the discovery opens a new world of understanding vision in a variety of light conditions.

Severed nerve cells send out a ‘save me’ signal that sparks the process of self-repair, QBI and Monash University researchers have found.

Humans are mostly right-handed, and primates, cats, dogs and even budgies show handedness, but now for the first time, researchers have shown that bees have a preference for sides too.

QBI’s Associate Professor Timothy Bredy has received two highly competitive grants for his research into understanding the epigenetics of fear-related learning and memory, particularly in anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress (PTSD).