Professor Michael Dragunow is a molecular pharmacologist, neuroscientist, and researcher for BRNZ. Mike’s lab is looking into neurodegeneration, specifically how the blood supply system in the brain and inflammatory immune responses could be part of the problem in...
The general population of New Zealand has a relatively low level of awareness of dementia and the needs of those with dementia, their whanau, families and carers. In 2016, BRNZ funded Ngaire Kerse to lead a community focused study that aims to challenge and change...
This article was originally published by the Brain Health Research Centre [http://www.otago.ac.nz/bhrc/news/otago624666.html] For more than a decade the brains behind the Dunedin Longitudinal Study have wanted to find a way to include neuroimaging in the project. It...
Misdiagnosis of dementia in Māori has prompted a three year study by Dr Margaret Dudley, a University of Auckland psychologist. The study into the relationship between Māori and dementia is the first of its kind in New Zealand, and has so far received more than $1...
An exciting discovery by Brain Research New Zealand researchers could pave the way for Alzheimer’s to be diagnosed by a simple blood test. The discovery was made as part of a $4.6 million Health Research Council of New Zealand programme grant, directed by Prof Cliff...
This article was originally published by the Brain Health Research Centre [http://www.otago.ac.nz/bhrc/news/otago608623.html] Russell Snell is a pioneering geneticist. He was part of the team which first identified the gene for Huntington’s disease. That was more than...
Professor Cliff Abraham and his colleagues have secured almost five million dollars of Health Research Council (HRC) funding over the next five years to further research into fighting Alzheimer’s disease. Cliff, a leading researcher of Alzheimer’s disease and...