Composer Ben Fernandez was so inspired by a piano performance he did for the CeleBRation Choir that he composed a song for them during lockdown – complete with vocals for the choir to sing. The Alert Level 4 lockdown brought up a range of emotions in everyone. Ben...
Our Dementia Prevention Research Clinics (DPRC) just celebrated an exciting success. After months of extensive preparations in Auckland and with the help of DPRC Tissue Banks in Christchurch and Dunedin, Dr Erin Cawston and her DPRC Tissue Bank team couriered off some...
Brain Research New Zealand is very pleased to report that it has made a further set of grant awards, for short-term projects running in the first half of 2021. While these grants are necessarily short-term due to the Centre of Research Excellence winding up after June...
Brain Research New Zealand (BRNZ) is very interested in addressing a number of brain health-related issues arising from the terrible pandemic that has spread across the globe. Even though New Zealand has been relatively spared, nonetheless ~2000 people have been...
When Assoc Prof Yiwen Zheng first dipped her toes in tinnitus research more than 16 years ago, she was drawn to it quickly because of two simple facts. First, tinnitus is a widespread condition. It affects 6% of New Zealanders and 13.5% of people over 65 years – and...
In 2018, Brain Research New Zealand (BRNZ) started on an exciting and slightly daunting journey adopting a formal programme to improve our cultural competency. It is well known that Māori suffer from worse health outcomes compared to other New Zealanders, due in part...
The Brain Research New Zealand (BRNZ) outreach calendar is full of exciting events, with one of the highlights being our annual wānanga with our Māori community partners. We have been visiting and working with the tauira (students) and kaiako (teachers) of Te Kura...
Dr Victor Dieriks examines concerns that the rapid onset of Parkinson's disease motor symptoms after Covid-19 infection suggests a causal link. Since the start of this pandemic, neuroscientists have become increasingly concerned that Covid-19 could result in...
What if doctors could stall Parkinson's before the shakiness started? That's the ambition of a University of Auckland scientist. Brain Research New Zealand member Dr Victor Dieriks, of the Centre for Brain Research in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, just...
On October 16 and 17, Brain Research New Zealand’s Being Brainy programme was invited to be part of Mātai’s Brain and Heart Day at the Poverty Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Show. The A&P Show is the biggest event in the Gisborne region, attracting an audience...
In its latest 2020 funding round, the Health Research Council (HRC) has announced $14.4 million in funding for research that will directly improve the delivery of healthcare services in New Zealand. The 32 research grants funded are part of the HRC’s new Health...
Written by Associate Professor Rita Krishnamurthi Stroke is the third highest cause of death in New Zealand, after cancer and coronary heart disease. But our new research shows very few people are aware of the risk, particularly in Pasifika...