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Sleep

Sleep

Sleep is controlled by the brain and is essential for human life. Impaired sleep adversely affects every organ in the body. Common sleep disorders like sleep apnoea and insomnia occur when sleep patterns are disrupted.

Statistics

Statistics

Dementia & Ageing

Dementia & Ageing

Neurodegeneration occurs in Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, affecting memory and ability to think. We cannot prevent or cure neurodegenerative diseases, and our ability to treat them is limited.

Injuries & Safety

Injuries & Safety

Injury is a leading cause of death and disability among adults and children in Australia, and globally. Our research programs examine different aspects of injury, developing the evidence needed to turn this around.

Neurological & Central Nervous System

Neurological & Central Nervous System

The central nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord, it regulates and coordinates body activities. Parkinson's and motor neurone disease, stroke or multiple system atrophy can be caused by damage to neurons.

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NeuRAustralia - A/Prof James McAuley on Low Back Pain (episode 38)

On August 11 2019, 54 people took on the City2Surf for Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA). The event is the world’s largest fun run with 80,000 participants taking on the 14km course, which stretches from Hyde Park in central Sydney to the iconic Bondi Beach. NeuRA thanks all of its fundraisers, who raised an incredible $30,903.  This funding will further NeuRA’s […]

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NeuRA BLOG: Team NeuRA at the City2Surf 2019

By age 85, one in three Australians will have dementia.

Australians are living longer than before. But while our bodies might be staying healthy, our brains are not.  Neurodegenerative diseases are on the rise and one in three Australians now have dementia at age 85. With no way of preventing, treating or curing it, dementia is set to overtake heart disease as a leading cause of death in Australia in less than 30 years. Researchers around the world are working tirelessly to find a breakthrough with the help of NeuRA’s Sydney Brain Bank, but time is running out. Your support this Christmas can help keep the Sydney Brain Bank operating. Will you help?
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Sensorimotor Control Meeting
World-leading falls researchers and clinicians call for urgent Government action on the $2.3bn health problem no one talks about

The Enhanced Advance care planning and life Review Longitudinal Intervention (EARLI) Project

The EARLI project is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (2022-2026) and is led by the University of New South Wales. In this project, the researchers are investigating whether a combination of life story work (looking back over the life, using stories, photographs and other meaningful objects) and advance care planning (discussions about preferences for future care and treatment) can help older adults receiving aged care services at home.   The EARLI project will be partnering with a number of aged care organisations in Sydney and Perth, to recruit participants who are receiving aged care services at home.   The project team are currently running a nation-wide pilot survey, which is open to anyone who is 65 years or older, living independently in the community, and able to communicate in English, Chinese or Italian. If you would like to complete the survey, please follow this link https://redcap.link/earli-pilot-survey, or contact the research team if you require further assistance.   If you would like to contact the study team, please email earli-project@neura.edu.au or call (02) 9399 1095
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