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How Australia’s new APsyK Bank is powering progress in mental health

Published on: 16 February 2026

Professor Thomas Burne explains how the new Australian Psychiatric Research Knowledge Bank could speed up discoveries and improve mental health care for everyone.

QBI’s life-changing mental health research

From increasing our brain’s resilience to stress to possible novel immunotherapy treatments for depression, Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) scientists continue to lead the way in mental health advances.

Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) researchers will dive deeper into the mysteries of the brain after gaining funding from the Australian Government.

Ideas Grants help solve brain mysteries

Published on: 19 December 2022

Neuroscientists will dive deeper into the mysteries of the brain after gaining funding from the Australian Government.

Remembered to take your vitamins? How vitamin D can affect your brain

QBI Associate Professor Thomas Burne answers all your questions about the link between vitamin D deficiency and and cognitive disorders.

Perineuronal nets (bright green) surround particular neurons (blue). Fluorescence labelling reveals just how detailed these structures are. Image Credit: Phoebe Mayne, University of Queensland

Researchers net new theory on vitamin D and cognitive disorders

Published on: 20 February 2019

New research from QBI may explain how vitamin D deficiency leads to a range of cognitive disorders, including depression and schizophrenia.

Research from the University of Queensland has linked low levels of vitamin D and the size of a part of the brain crucial to memory formation.

Vitamin D deficiency a risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia

Published on: 12 December 2018

Research from the University of Queensland has linked low levels of vitamin D and the size of a part of the brain crucial to memory formation.

QBI scientists have received $9.57 million in grants to fund pioneering neuroscience research.

Funding success for QBI researchers

Published on: 11 November 2015

QBI scientists have received $9.57 million in grants to fund pioneering neuroscience research.