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Dr Catherine Morgan: Looking inside our bodies with physics

Dr Catherine Morgan: Looking inside our bodies with physics

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...

Dementia App For Māori Launches

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...

Brain Research New Zealand funds COVID-19 research projects

Brain Research New Zealand funds COVID-19 research projects

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...

Assoc Prof Joanna Williams: The clues in our blood

Assoc Prof Joanna Williams: The clues in our blood

Associate Prof Joanna Williams’ work at the University of Otago is all about blood – and the clues hidden within that might tell us what is going on in the brain. Using the blood as a window into the brain, Joanna aims to find biomarkers that can help us diagnose...

Empowering Māori to fight dementia

Empowering Māori to fight dementia

Even though Māori are diagnosed with dementia much younger than non-Māori, and it is predicted that they will make up 8% of New Zealanders living with dementia by2038, little is known about how this disease affects Māori. Most research is still conducted through a...

GREY MATTERS website goes live

GREY MATTERS website goes live

Prof Nicola Kayes (Centre for Person Centred Research, AUT) and her team have just launched GREY MATTERS, a website for people who are experiencing changes to their memory and thinking. It is a website to learn about the ageing brain and how to keep your brain...

Dr Meg Spriggs: From mild cognitive impairment to magic mushrooms

Dr Meg Spriggs: From mild cognitive impairment to magic mushrooms

Dr Meg Spriggs wasn’t always interested in science. “At school I was very much an arts kid,” she says, “and I dropped science in fifth form.” But during her psychology undergraduate at the University of Otago everything changed. Meg was introduced to EEG...

Dementia Prevention Research Clinic launches in Christchurch

Dementia Prevention Research Clinic launches in Christchurch

The Dementia Prevention Research Clinic has officially opened in Christchurch on July 26 – the third in a national network of clinics established by Brain Research New Zealand - Rangahau Roro Aotearoa (BRNZ). With the launch of the Christchurch Dementia Prevention...