Category: Research
... cognitive changes that arise from disruption of crucial frontal brain networks – the networks that enable cognitive control. Frontal networks propagate information between anterior and posterior brain areas and support the dynamic and flexible integration of ... using a simple computer-based task. By combining EEG with brain imaging, we are designing approaches to link behaviour with frontal ...
Category: News & Articles
... technology has widespread applications in studying soft tissue in the brain, organs and muscles. An associated technique known as Magnetic ... Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and other disorders affecting the brain. Professor Mountford’s own research focuses on chemical analysis ... for patients, which is one of HMRI’s unique strengths.” MR imaging is now well established as a diagnostic modality, with units in ...
Category: News & Articles
... will explore personalised nutrition support, mathematical models of brain disorders and strategies to prevent ‘neglected’ areas of ... Breakspear was awarded $2.9m to investigate the mechanisms underlying brain disorders, combining brain imaging with mathematical modelling. Tuesday 14 September 2021 Brain and ...
Category: News & Articles
... health systems intervention known as TACTICS (Trial of Advanced CT Imaging and Combined Education Support) supporting everyone from triage ... Levi added. “Very importantly, it also delves into the analysis of brain scanning, which is a dark art for those who aren’t experts in ... Professor Michael Nilsson . “We have a real focus on long-term brain repair and recovery with precision-medicine treatments, and ...
Category: News & Articles
... to Professor Mark Parsons and Professor Chris Levi’s project Saving Brain and Changing Practice in Stroke. Professor Chris Levi said the project aimed to directly change clinical practice relating to brain tissue rescue. “While each of our research team members has ... will look at identifying new therapies for stroke using advanced imaging to better identify treatment responders and my research will ...
Category: News & Articles
... diagnosis require measurement by either expensive procedures such as brain imaging, or invasive procedures, for example spinal punctures. “Our ... not stop the disease progressing. Alzheimer’s disease attacks the brain resulting in impaired memory, thinking and behaviour. It is the ...
Category: General
... Neuroscientist and Chair of the Hunter Medical Research Institute’s Brain Neuromodulation Research Program. He holds an academic position in ... pain. His research uses a range of electrical recording and imaging approaches to study nerve cell circuits and connections, in ... nerve cell connection that signals when pain signals are sent to the brain. Associate Professor Marc Russo is a specialist pain-medicine ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... one that explores the effects of trans-magnetic stimulation of the brain (the TAURUS study) and a cross-disciplinary trial looking at neurometabolics (the effect of diet on the brain) in MS alongside Professor Tracy Burrows from the University of ... the disease course? Can we identify these symptoms early with new imaging techniques and do current treatments influence them? Can ...
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... type of dementia, has long been thought to involve the buildup in the brain of plaques. These plaques are made of a protein called ... by that time there has already been a lot of underlying damage to the brain and we currently don’t have any treatments that can reverse that damage.” The first study known as the Prospective Imaging Study of Ageing (PISA) will be looking to see if it is possible ...
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... observed in the absence of sensory loss (e.g. hearing impairment). Brain imaging supports differences in brain responses to sensory stimuli (e.g. heightened, attenuated, delayed ...