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Neurobiologists at the Queensland Brain Institute have found that animals are not always as brightly coloured as they seem – at least not to their counterparts.

The Queensland Brain Institute has strengthened its ties with China, following the announcement of $1m to further collaborations with the Institute of Biophysics (IBP) in Beijing.

If you have ever looked up from the depths of the ocean, you will understand how difficult it can be to identify objects above the surface.

Researchers at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute and School of Population Health have found young adults who use cannabis from an early age are three times more likely to have from psychotic symptoms.

Scientists at the Queensland Brain Institute have uncovered a vital clue into how the brain is wired, which could eventually steer research into nervous system disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and cognitive disorders including autism.

Ten of the brainiest high school students from across Australia and New Zealand will fight it out for the title of 2010 Brain Bee Champion at the national finals in Sydney this weekend.

Researchers at the Queensland Brain Institute have uncovered how antidepressants stimulate the brain to improve a person’s mood.

Every moment of every day the brain is forced to process thousands of separate odorants from the world around us.

Uma Jha from Perth has been crowned the 2010 Australian Brain Bee Champion in a battle of neuroscience knowledge in Sydney.

Scientists at the Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, have found a way to measure the attention span of a fly, which could lead to further advances in the understanding of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism in humans.

Understanding the causes of autism and schizophrenia could be a step closer for researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland (QBI) after they unravelled the secret world of the wasp genome.

Unravelling how the brain works is a complex task – but researchers are hoping a lecture series at the Queensland Brain Institute will make it a little easier.

Honeybees undergo a sudden transition from speeding aircraft to hovering helicopter as they perform the delicate art of landing on a flower.

It is not how most Year 10 students are spending their holidays – but working in a world-renowned neuroscience institute has proved an early Christmas present for Cleveland District State High student Millie MacDonald.

According to a world-renowned neuroscientist speaking at the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland later this week, hand movements and gestures were used to communicate before verbal language evolved.

QBI’s efforts to encourage young people to develop an interest in neuroscience through the Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABBC) are starting to reap handsome rewards.

The University of Queensland is forging closer ties with the business community with the appointment of two Smart Futures Entrepreneurs-in-Residence announced in Parliament today by State Treasurer Andrew Fraser.

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.