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Australia-India collaboration uncovers new clue to treating schizophrenia
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An 18-year joint investigation has identified a new clue in the quest to treat schizophrenia. SchizophreniaStoriesMowry
Schizophrenia
18-year study uncovers new clue to treating schizophrenia
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An 18-year joint investigation has identified a new clue in the quest to treat schizophrenia. SchizophreniaStoriesMowry
How ski grooming patterns affect visibility in the snow
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When QBI researcher Dr Will Harrison “stacked it” on a ski slope in Canada, his holiday transformed into a research project in the snow. Dr Harrison …
How ski grooming patterns affect visibility in the snow
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Dr Will Harrison turned a holiday into a science project when he noticed the visibility of "groomed" ski runs was affected by shady or overcast …
Professor Linda Richards named Officer in Order of Australia
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Professor Linda Richards has been named an Officer in the Order of Australia.StoriesRichards
Vision of light: deep-sea fish use colour to see in the dark
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Queensland Brain Institute researchers have discovered some types of deep-sea fish may have highly sensitive colour …
Microscopic worms could provide key to repairing injured nerves
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The ability of a tiny worm to repair injured nerves could one day help victims of nerve injuries such as paralysis.Nerve regenerationStoriesHilliard
New model offers hope for schizophrenia treatments
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Queensland Brain Institute researchers have developed a new schizophrenia model that will enable better understanding of the disease and may lead to …
New brain cancer centre takes up the fight for children
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QBI researcher Dr Jens Bunt will lead an international team investigating a highly aggressive type of brain cancer at Australia’s first research …
Blood cells the missing link in post-exercise boost
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Researchers have discovered a new way in which exercise boosts our brain - following exercise, platelets in our blood prompt neural stem cells to …
Remembered to take your vitamins? How vitamin D can affect your brain
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QBI Associate Professor Thomas Burne answers all your questions about the link between vitamin D deficiency and and cognitive disorders.
Vote now: QBI scientists strives for STEM Prize
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Voting has opened for this year's Queensland Women in STEM Prize.StoriesWomen
Researchers net new theory on vitamin D and cognitive disorders
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New research from QBI may explain how vitamin D deficiency leads to a range of cognitive disorders, including depression and …
Extinguishing fear memories relies on an unusual change to DNA
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QBI researchers have discovered a DNA modification that enhances our ability to extinguish fear. The findings, published in the journal Nature …
The brain pathways that lead to risky business
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Are you a daredevil or do you prefer to play it safe? Whatever your answer, while you might think you freely choose whether to take risks or follow …
DNA repair gene critical for memory consolidation
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Queensland Brain Institute neuroscientists have found that the brain’s process for repairing DNA is also important for consolidating memories and …
Best neuroscience images of 2018
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As the body's most complex and least-understood organ, the brain is as an object of much fascination and mistque, with many of its functions and …
Risk for developing more than one mental health disorder revealed
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The risk of developing a second mental health disorder after an initial diagnosis is high, even many years later, according to new research led by …
Brain pathway that explains blindsight confirmed
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Researchers at the UQ's Queensland Brain Institute have confirmed the existence of an elusive pathway in the brain that enables some blind people to …
True colours: test determines how animals see colour
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Trained fish are helping researchers at The University of Queensland to understand animal vision and factors behind the huge variation in colours …
Why our brain is the most intelligent machine of all
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The idea of intelligent machines - otherwise known as artificial intelligence (AI) - is an increasingly hot topic. They contain the promise of a …
How do we smell things?
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Whenever we smell something, our nose and brain work together to make sense of hundreds of very tiny invisible particles, known as molecules or …
Podcast: the science of addiction
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QBI's Dr James Kesby on how our brain's reward mechanism works, and what happens when things go wrong.
Hallucinations related to eye disease have brain basis
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New research from The University of Queensland has shown for the first time that visual hallucinations in people with macular degeneration are …
Trouble falling asleep? Your sleep switch may be to blame
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According to new research from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute, a particular area in the brain has neurons that act like a sleep …
Neuroscientists uncover ancient map of brain connections
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The corpus callosum, which connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain has evolved from a more ancient brain template shared by all …
Podcast: Super memory - what it's like to remember being a baby
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Rebecca Sharrock has a condition called Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, which enables her to remember every day of her life in clear, …
Finding the brain’s ‘inner GPS’ cells proves elusive
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Dr Baumann from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute and colleagues have put to rest the notion that fMRI can detect the brain's place cells.Alzheimer's …
Spots or stripes make no difference to fish predators
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How do predators learn what they can and cannot eat by how their prey looks? It’s all about the pattern edge, say University of Queensland …
Paying attention helps your brain process what it can't see
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Paying attention to a location helps the brain to process not just what you can see there, but also what you can’t – suggesting that attention and …

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