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An exciting new high-level collaboration has been announced in Brisbane between the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) and Chinese neuroscientists.

UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) will host a workshop for clinicians and scientists seeking to better understand the syndromes associated with a common brain development condition.

UQ neuroscientists have, for the first time, been able to demonstrate that moderate exercise significantly increases the number of neural stem cells in the ageing brain.

Neuroscience training for graduates has been streamlined and enhanced with a unique Master of Neuroscience program being offered by The University of Queensland (UQ) through the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI).

Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABBC) judges were greatly impressed by the determined solo effort which saw a single representative from the outer Brisbane suburb of Cleveland storm home to win the individual round of the 2009 Queensland competition yesterday.

More than 130 students from 30 Queensland high schools will test their brain power at the 2009 Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABBC) Queensland final this week at The University of Queensland.

Research at The University of Queensland has revealed that growing nerve fibres may navigate by using a clever mathematical trick.

A group of UQ neuroscientists is about to embark upon one of Australia's biggest studies into the relationship between genes and children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Professor Martyn D. Goulding delivered the 2009 Toshiya Yamada Memorial Lecture to a large audience at the Queensland Brain Institute on Tuesday, 24 March.

Queensland Brain Institute neuroscientists have returned from high-level talks in China hopeful of establishing a new international scientific research centre, which is expected to have considerable health benefits for both countries.

Research from The University of Queensland has revealed the older a dad is the more likely his children will have reduced cognitive abilities.

Twenty-four of Australia’s most talented undergraduate and postgraduate students are coming to UQ this week for a unique course about modelling the brain.

The Queensland Brain Institute's Dr Michael Piper has been awarded the AW Campbell Award by the Australian Neuroscience Society.

QBI's Deputy Director Professor Pankaj Sah has been named as one of Australia’s seven most distinguished health and medical researchers.

Queensland Brain Institute neuroscientists have discovered the crucial role a specific gene plays in forming the neural tube, the earliest identifiable structure in the developing brain and an essential precursor to the entire central nervous system.

The Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) has established formal research ties with Japan’s most prestigious medical school, the Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo.

A unique public forum will be held at the Queensland Brain Institute on Tuesday, 25 November to commemorate the election of another five Queensland scientists to the Australian Academy of Science.

The University of Queensland deep sea research has dug up an insight into the evolutionary past of some of the earliest animals.

Astrophysicists peer into the far corners of deep space for dark matter, but for neuroscientists at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) exploring the unknown is much closer to home.

Researchers at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) have discovered an important new link between how we see an action – and the way our mind processes that visual stimulation.