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For the second time Queensland Brain Institute researcher Dr Shyuan Ngo is awarded the Scott Sullivan Fellowship for motor neurone disease research.

A new brain pathway involved in extinguishing fearful memories has been discovered by QBI researchers.

A potential drug to treat motor neurone disease (MND) is set to emerge from a partnership between UQ and the Queensland Government.

Marine animals such as mantis shrimp and octopus have inspired a new mode of underwater navigation that allows for greater accuracy.

Oscillations in brain activity influence how well we perceive objects in both expected and unexpected locations.

Identifying an object in an unexpected location is quick, but responding to it is slower.

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.