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QBI RESEARCHERS are focussing their efforts on discovering the fundamental molecular and physiological regulation of brain function. It is believed that such an understanding will bring new generic approaches to rectify a large spectrum of mental and neurological illnesses, including dementia, motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis, depression, schizophrenia, drug addiction and stroke.
The institute's $63 million state-of-the-art research facility at UQ’s St Lucia campus accommodates more than 200 scientists. Below are links to media releases, news items, interviews and other matters of interest involving QBI scientists and their research.
For more information please contact Institute Manager, Ray Johnson
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2009 MEDIA
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MEDIA RELEASE – 20 Aug
Former Brain Bee Winner Excels on the International Stage
QBI’s efforts to encourage young people to develop an interest in neuroscience through the Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABBC) are starting to reap handsome rewards. Established in 2006, the ABBC motivates young people to learn about the brain – and is designed to inspire students to pursue career in science. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 19 Aug
UQ engages with fellow entrepreneurs
The University of Queensland is forging closer ties with the business community with the appointment of two Smart Futures Entrepreneurs-in-Residence announced in Parliament today by State Treasurer Andrew Fraser. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 17 Aug
QBI neuroscientists move to redress growing disease burden in China and Australia
An exciting new high-level collaboration has been announced in Brisbane between the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) and Chinese neuroscientists. The research initiative is designed to redress the increasing number of people with neurological and mental disease in both countries. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 13 July
Scientists and clinicians meet to better understand “Rain Man”
The Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) is hosting a workshop for clinicians and scientists seeking to better understand the syndromes associated with a brain development condition made famous in the movie Rain Man. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 24 June
Ageing Brains Show Great Promise for Rejuvenation
QBI neuroscientists have, for the first time, been able to demonstrate that moderate exercise significantly increases the number of neural stem cells in the ageing brain. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 17 June
Noteworthy Solo Effort For 2009 ABBC State Final Winner
Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABBC) judges were greatly impressed by the determined solo effort which saw a single representative from the outer Brisbane suburb of Cleveland storm home to win the individual round of the 2009 Queensland competition yesterday (Tuesday, 16 June). MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 15 June
Neuroscience Program to Attract High Achieving Science Graduates
Neuroscience training for graduates has been streamlined and enhanced with a new Master of Neuroscience program being offered by The University of Queensland (UQ) through the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI).
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MEDIA RELEASE – 15 June
Regional schools ensure Brain Bee is a neuroscience winner
More than 130 students from 30 Queensland high schools will test their brain power at the 2009 Australian Brain Bee Challenge Queensland final this week (Tuesday, June 16) at The University of Queensland. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 10 June
Research shows that brain cells make clever connections
New research has revealed that growing nerve fibres may navigate by using a clever mathematical trick. Associate Professor Geoff Goodhill, from the Queensland Brain Institute and School of Mathematics and Physics, led the interdisciplinary team of neuroscientists and mathematicians behind the research. They carefully measured how the guidance of nerve fibres from rat brains changed as the cues directing their growth varied, and showed these changes could be accurately predicted using a mathematical model. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 18 May
Strategic China-Australian Neuroscience Program to research brain function and disease
A unique China-Australian collaboration in neuroscience has been formed between the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) and The Institute of Biophysics (IBP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. A delegation of seven leading Chinese neuroscientists this week visited QBI to finalise arrangements for a joint research laboratory in neuroscience and cognition, which will involve more than 100 top neuroscientists working in the vital areas of brain function and cognition. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 12 April
Six-hundred Families Wanted For National ADHD Study
A GROUP of UQ neuroscientists is about to embark upon one of Australia’s biggest studies into the relationship between genes and children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In a national study of more than 600 families led by Associate Professor Mark Bellgrove at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), researchers hope to better understand what causes ADHD – a common behavioural condition that affects thousands of children and families in Australia. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 27 March
Toshiya Yamada Memorial Lecture 2009
PROFESSOR Martyn D. Goulding delivered the 2009 Toshiya Yamada Memorial Lecture to a large audience at the Queensland Brain Institute on Tuesday, 24 March. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 18 March
Brain Battle attracts 6000 Students
MORE than 6000 high school students from across Australia and New Zealand will put their brainpower to the test this Wednesday, 18 March. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 11 March
Queensland Reaches Out to Chinese Neuroscience
QUEENSLAND BRAIN INSTITUTE neuroscientists have returned from high-level talks in China hopeful of establishing a new international scientific research centre, which is expected to have considerable health benefits for both countries. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 10 March
Time is not on the side of older dads
RESEARCH has revealed the older a dad is the more likely his children will have reduced cognitive abilities.QBI's Professor John McGrath said the study could have implications for a society that is having children later in life. MORE ...
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EVENT – 24 Feb
Insights into neuroscience in fifty years
On 24 February, QBI Director Professor Perry Bartlett FAA was invited to predict the future of neuroscience at a special function organised by the Brisbane Institute and the University of Queensland. Professor Bartlett told the audience that in the next 50 years, Queensland would be at the forefront of unlocking the secrets of the cortex, the part of the brain that plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness. “We are hoping to find out how we learn and by doing so, could develop artificial intelligence,” he said. “We will be able to re-train brains after injury, grow back spinal cords and fight diseases like Alzheimer's disease.” The Queensland Brain Institute already has 25 research groups working on unravelling the mysteries of the brain. MORE ... . [external link]
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MEDIA – 19 Feb
Navigating spaces with rat-like cunning (Rat Nav)
NEUROSCIENTISTS at QBI are helping researchers to develop smarter robots by studying how rats visually interact with their environment. This research was featured on the the ABC Television program Catalyst and includes QBI's Dr Michael Milford and Dr François Windels. [external link]
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MEDIA RELEASE – 18 Feb
What makes brains smarter than computers?
TWENTY-FOUR of Australia's most talented undergraduate and postgraduate students are coming to UQ this week for a unique course about modelling the brain. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 29 Jan
Australian neuroscientists recognise QBI researcher's early work
A QUEENSLAND BRAIN INSTITUTE neuroscientist has been recognised with a prestigious national research award. QBI's Dr Michael Piper has been awarded the AW Campbell Award by the Australian Neuroscience Society. MORE ...
2008 MEDIA
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MEDIA RELEASE – 11 Dec
QBI Scientist Wins NHMRC Excellence Award
QBI's DEPUTY DIRECTOR Professor Pankaj Sah has been named as one of Australia’s seven most distinguished health and medical researchers. At an award ceremony in Canberra, Professor Sah and his fellow recipients were recognised for their outstanding contribution to the success of research in this country. The National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia’s leading funding body for health and medical research, granted its Excellence Awards to the highest ranked recipients of grants and fellowships in 2008. Professor Sah’s laboratory uses electrophysiology, imaging and molecular techniques to study the way the brain’s amygdala lays down emotional memory. Disorders of the storage or expression of emotional memory are linked with several debilitating human responses such as panic attacks, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder.
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MEDIA RELEASE – 27 Nov
QBI lab isolates gene essential to early brain development
QUEENSLAND BRAIN INSTITUTE neuroscientists have discovered the crucial role a specific gene plays in forming the neural tube, the earliest identifiable structure in the developing brain and an essential precursor to the entire central nervous system. While investigating neural tube closure in the clawed toad (Xenopus laevis) and in zebrafish, Associate Professor Helen Cooper has, for the first time, described one of the processes that drive this crucial stage of brain development, which is common to all vertebrates. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 26 Nov
QBI Links with Japanese Neuroscience Team
THE QUEENSLAND BRAIN INSTITUTE has established formal research ties with Japan’s most prestigious medical school, the Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo. QBI Director Professor Perry Bartlett FAA said the Keio University School of Medicine was recognised around the world for its teaching excellence and leading research into neural stem cells. MORE ...
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QBI EVENT – 25 Nov
Qld members welcomed into Australian Academy of Science
A PUBLIC forum was held at the Queensland Brain Institute on Tuesday, 25 November to commemorate the election of another five Queensland scientists to the Australian Academy of Science. Each of the Fellows provided a short presentation of their work. Election to the academy recognises a career that has significantly advanced, and continues to advance, the world's scientific knowledge. For more information about the Academy visit www.science.org.au
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MEDIA RELEASE – 21 Nov
Deep blue research digs up evolutionary past
A QBI AFFILIATE is part of a UQ deep sea research team that has dug up an insight into the evolutionary past of some of the earliest animals. Professor Justin Marshall, from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute and School of Biomedical Sciences, was part of an international team that found grape-like balls – called giant protists – off the coast of the Bahamas that throw into doubt long-held views about the evolution of multi-cellular organisms. MORE ...
EXTERNAL LINK: Read report of this research in NatureNews
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MEDIA RELEASE – 20 Nov
Memory mission explores new territory in neuroscience
ASTROPHYSICISTS peer into the far corners of deep space for dark matter, but for neuroscientists at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) exploring the unknown is much closer to home. They have discovered a mechanism vital to the development of the hippocampus – a region of the brain crucial to the formation of memories, and the lifelong production and integration of new nerve cells. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 13 Nov
Researchers find link between seeing and thinking
QBI RESEARCHERS have discovered an important new link between how we see an action – and the way our mind processes that visual stimulation. For more than a decade, scientists have hypothesized the brain contains a system of ‘mirror neurons', which help an observer to mentally correlate perceived actions with pre-learned movements. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 11 Nov
QBI scientists lead major investigation into how neurons integrate into the brain
RESEARCHERS from the Queensland Brain Institute will delve further into the mysteries of how our brain works thanks to more than $7.5 million in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. A team led by QBI's Professor Perry Bartlett FAA will use advanced imaging techniques to better understand how neurons integrate into the brain. MORE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE – 27 Oct
Insect world royalty shows they really count
RESEARCH led by the head of visual neuroscience at the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) has demonstrated that honey bees are capable of routinely counting up to four. Professor Mandyam Srinivasan FAA and a colleague from Sweden discovered a new insight into honey bee cognition after developing a series of experiments based on sugar-water incentives. MORE ...
- MEDIA RELEASE – 24 Oct
New understanding of how we remember traumatic events
QBI NEUROSCIENTISTS have discovered a new way to explain how emotional events can sometimes lead to disturbing long term memories. In evolutionary terms, the brain's ability to remember a fear or trauma response has been crucial to our long term survival. MORE ...
- MEDIA RELEASE – 23 Oct
Cone shell toxin offers new hope for chronic pain sufferers
BETTER CHRONIC PAIN RELIEF could be possible in the future, according to research announced today by scientists at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute. Neuropathic and chronic pain is typically caused by injury to the nerves, resulting in uncontrolled activation of pain pathways, and affects one in five Australians of working age. MORE ...
- MEDIA RELEASE – 20 Oct
Scientific hunch poised to save thousands from toxic fish poisoning
A QBI neuroscientist has found a way to combat a debilitating illness that affects an estimated 50,000 people a year in tropical regions. Ciguatera poisoning – which often results in acute nausea, vomiting and painful gastrointestinal episodes – is caused by eating fish that have fed on a micro algae that are toxic to mammals and often associated with large algal blooms known as red tides. MORE ...
- Form follows function in innovative QBI artwork (6 Oct)
- QBI scientist awarded for research excellence (29 Sep)
- Brain Bee finalist wins Smart Women – Smart State Award (3 Sep)
- World experts in brain plasticity gather in Brisbane (6 Sep)
- All Weather Bee Flight Facility officially opened (20 Aug)
- Media Alert (19 Aug)
- Sydney student wins national neuroscience tussle (5 Aug)
- National brain battle this weekend (29 July)
- Leading Australian Scientist urges G8 to Deliver on Aid Promise (17 July)
- Somerset College takes home two trophies (26 June)
- QBI hosts international MRI software training seminar (24 June)
- Brain Battle Looms for Top 100 (19 June)
- Joint QBI-US team targets faster Alzheimer’s detection (19 June)
- QBI neuroscientists find new way to fight memory-damaging plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease (10 June)
- Discovery of cell linked to learning and memory (15 May)
- Design Award for QBI's Interior Spaces
- QBI scientist receives award for best paper in Insect Molecular Biology (8 April)
- QBI lab targets motor neuron disease (18 March)
- Smart State Fellowship for QBI's Dr Xiaoying Cui (14 March)
- Student interest in neuroscience skyrockets (10 March)
- World-first stem cell screening facility to target brain tumours (6 March)
- More brain research suggests "use it or lose it" (7 Feb)
- Autism risk for delaying dads (29 Jan)
Archived news items (pre-2008)
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