Picture a physicist. Do you imagine someone madly scribbling equations about nuclear energy or black holes? What about someone doing research on dementia? Or figuring out better ways to do high-tech medical imaging? These are the sorts of things a Magnetic Resonance...
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Remembering Sir Eion Edgar
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Sir Eion Edgar on Monday, 14 June 2021. Sir Eion was a determined warrior for advancing brain research for the future benefit of all people in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2015, Sir Eion...
Dr Malvindar Singh-Bains: hunting for a cure for hereditary brain disease
Dr Malvindar Singh-Bains from Brain Research New Zealand and the Centre for Brain Research would like greater awareness of how the hereditary brain disease Huntington’s affects families. Malvindar Singh-Bains was presenting her research at the National Huntington’s...
Dr Justine Camp: Re-creating traditional knowledge for new contexts
When we last checked in with Dr Justine Camp (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha), she was in the middle of her PhD, conducting trials, collecting data and refining her whānau health compass. Now her project – which was supervised by Assoc Prof Anne-Marie Jackson...
Dementia Prevention Research Clinics celebrate International Nurses Day
On 12 May 2021, people across the globe celebrated International Nurses Day. For this occasion and as part of a series of virtual visits organised by the International Association of Clinical Research Nurses, Jane Govender, our Clinic Manager and Clinical...
2021 Wānanga at te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hoani Waititi Marae
On 11 October 2016, our Auckland-based Brain Research New Zealand (BRNZ) members visited te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Hoani Waititi for the very first time. Dr Hinemoa Elder, Māori Strategy Leader at BRNZ, identified the school and marae as a partner for our Centre of...
Tinnitus or just the patter of rain? Research into taming noise disorder
A novel experiment investigated whether tinnitus could be tamed by creating associations with noises such as rain, birds or cicadas. The results are promising, according to Assoc Prof Grant Searchfield, an associate professor in the Faculty of Medical and Health...
Brain Research New Zealand holds 2021 Conference
In April 2021, Brain Research New Zealand (BRNZ) held their second conference, bringing together our researchers, clinicians and community partners from across New Zealand to discuss brain research and the future of BRNZ. Left to right: full conference, Māori...
Just ten minutes a day could change your life
Dr David Moreau says you don’t need much time in your day to exercise your body and your brain. Dr David Moreau doesn’t buy the excuse that we don’t have time for exercise. His Early Career Research Excellence Award from the Royal Society Te Apārangi was for his...
Dementia App For Māori Launches
An app to help Māori affected by mate wareware (dementia) and to raise awareness of the disease has been launched. The app, Mate Wareware, was developed by researchers from the University of Auckland and AUT University following the largest-ever study of Māori...
Auckland scientist helps unravel mystery of Covid-19 brain effects
Neuroscientist Helen Murray’s special expertise with a tiny part of the brain is helping unravel the mysteries of Covid-19’s neurological effects. For weeks, University of Auckland neuroscientist Helen Murray pored over scans of brain tissue from people who had died...
World Report on Hearing launched by the WHO
Nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide ─ or 1 in 4 people ─ will be living with some degree of hearing loss by 2050, warns the World Health Organization’s (WHO) first World Report on Hearing, released on 3 March. At least 700 million of these people will require access...