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Researchers at CHeBA are investigating the role of apolipoproteins in normal and pathological brain ageing, such as Alzheimer’s disease, with the assistance of a philanthropic research grant from the Sachdev Foundation.
The Sachdev...
Our ability to visually interpret the environment around us is easily taken for granted. But what about when we start to see things that aren’t there, a scenario faced by many Australians living with psychiatric disorders?
A discovery by a UNSW and University of Sydney research team on how Parkinson’s patients experience visual mental imagery is providing hope that their uncontrolled...
A brain mapping study led by researchers from UNSW’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) and QIMR Berghofer has found new evidence of a neural basis for the different behaviours in men and women and that the gender differences in brain networks continue through to old age.
In the study, published in journal...
Image Caption: Sisters Kathleen Byrne and Barbara Setterfield are involved in the Older Australian Twins Study. Photo: Pat Scala
Identical twins Kathleen Byrne and Barbara Setterfield are prized scientific test subjects.
That is because, by sharing 100 per cent of their genes,...
UNSW researchers have identified a distinctive brain signature in people with melancholic depression, supporting calls for its classification as a unique mood disorder type.
It is also hoped the discovery will advance the management and treatment of mood disorders in Australia.
The findings, published today in the journal...