Podcasts

Can we replicate the positive effects of exercise to boost new neurons in the adult brain? Dr Tara Walker thinks so and has dedicated her research career to discovering how.

Paying attention is a highly efficient and dynamic process that researchers have come to understand from studying both damaged and healthy brains.

Delve into the world of RNA and discover its immense potential with Professor Tim Bredy

Discover how sleep helps us learn and respond to the world from different ends of the scientific spectrum.

Discover a decade of research excellence at the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR).

QBI researchers are using technology to deliver electrical impulse to the brain to treat disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and obsessive compulsion disorder (OCD).

Research on the brains of former athletes is raising awareness of the long-term neurological damage that can be caused by repeated, apparently minor knocks to the head. 

People living with dementia often have disturbed sleep – even years prior to experiencing any other symptoms. Does one cause the other?

The development of the brain is a fascinating process, with complex brain connections being made rapidly as a foetus grows inside its mother’s womb.

How can you study the human brain at the cell level, when you can't get inside to see these tiny processes in action? Well, you build your own brain in a dish of course!