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This is an exciting time for us - with our new name, a new building currently under construction and research into a new way of delivering healthcare through development of e-health over the new national broadband network (NBN).
Selected people with stroke-affected hands and arms living in regional Australia will soon be participating in rehabilitation sessions over the internet through a project run by Neuroscience Research Australia’s Dr Penelope McNulty.
50 year old Marc Buchan is a retired fireman. At age 48 he had a major stroke. Determined to get better, Marc started rehabilitation training and was introduced to the use of ‘Wii therapy’ to help people regain movement in their stroke-affected limbs by practising exercises on gaming consoles.
Neuroscience Research Australia’s Dr David Elliott has been recognised as the top PhD candidate for 2009 by the UNSW School of Medical Sciences.
Dr Tom Weickert and his team have found that a treatment designed to ‘turn up’ thinking in people with schizophrenia has been effective in about half of participants so far.
If you’re an older person and lead an active lifestyle, swap your multifocal glasses for single lens glasses when you take part in outdoor activities to reduce your risk of falling, says Prof Stephen Lord.
If you were to drive along Barker Street in Randwick, it would be hard to miss the hole in the ground above which half of our institute used to be located. The first stage of our new building works began in March this year - hence the large hole.
We are looking for volunteers to participate in a study of how the brain controls movement and how the brain compensates when there is damage to brain regions that control movement.
Prof Cyndi Shannon Weickert, a leading researcher on schizophrenia at Neuroscience Research Australia and sister to someone with this mental illness, took part with many of you in a recent call for action on mental health in Australia. Her wish is for a future where schizophrenia will be eradicated.
The children from the Junior School of St Catherine’s School, Waverley have raised an amazing amount of money for Neuroscience Research Australia.
The Students of Medical Science at UNSW put their thinking caps on and came up with an innovative way to raise funds for Neuroscience Research Australia.
Miranda Ryan ran in Sydney’s City to Surf fun run to raise money in memory of her best friend’s mother, who passed away from early onset dementia.
Hicksons Lawyers established a scholarship to support PhD students at Neuroscience Research Australia so that they can devote most of their time to research.
