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...
Stroke
Most New Zealanders don’t know how deadly strokes are – claiming 2,300 lives a year and rising
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...
Isaac Samuels: How equal is access to stroke reperfusion therapy?
“As a young Māori health professional in training, it is crucial to me that I do everything I can, whenever I can, to ensure I am providing for my communities all across Aotearoa.” As a fourth-year medical student at the University of Auckland, Isaac Samuels (Tainui)...
Prof Valery Feigin: Neurological disorders are the leading cause of global disability
BRNZ Principal Investigator Prof Valery Feigin, Director of AUT's National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences, is New Zealand's most cited scientist and a world-leading stroke researcher. For the occasion of World Brain Day 2020, Valery was interviewed by...
Deciphering the role of grafted pericytes in mouse motor cortex
A Brain Research New Zealand funded collaboration - Prof Ruth Empson, Prof Mike Dragunow, Assoc Prof Stephanie Hughes and Dr Andrew Clarkson PhD student Manju Ganesh (University of Otago) recently won the Sir Grafton Elliot-Smith Poster Award at the 2019 Australasian...
Prof Valery Feigin elected as Fellow of Royal Society Te Apārangi
BRNZ investigator Prof Valery Feigin (AUT) has been elected as both a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Valery was elected as one of 19 new Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi Fellows, who are recognised for their...
Preventing stroke through coaching
Each year, stroke shortens the lives of millions of people across the globe – it is the second most common cause of death and disability worldwide. But according to BRNZ investigators, Dr Rita Krishnamurthi and MacDiarmid Medal winner, Prof. Valery Feigin, the...
A cellular approach to stroke recovery
Every year in New Zealand, around 9000 people have a stroke, and as our population ages, that number is expected to rise. In many cases, those affected never recover fully and disabilities can last decades. This is why BRNZ researchers have been working on all aspects...
Te Tino Rangatiratanga o te Mate Ikura Roro: Empowering Stroke Survivors
A recent study undertaken in Auckland concluded that while there is a moderate level of community stroke knowledge overall, this varies by ethnicity, and stroke awareness levels amongst Māori are particularly low. With the Māori population living longer, and thus...
Professor Valery Feigin’s Stroke Self-management Rehabilitation Website Goes Live
Prof Valery Feigin has done it again. After creating his award-winning Stroke Riskometer app in 2013, he has just launched another valuable tool for stroke prevention and recovery: Stroke.net.nz, a website focused on self-managed rehabilitation. Valery, a BRNZ...
Brain Week Interview with Stroke Expert – Dr Andrew Clarkson
This article was originally published by the BHRC [http://www.otago.ac.nz/bhrc/news/otago648060.html] Stroke is one of the leading cause of death and disability the world over. Every year around fifteen million people worldwide will have a stroke. One third of those...
Can Electrical Stimulation Boost Your Brain After Stroke?
The article was originally published by the BHRC [http://www.otago.ac.nz/bhrc/news/otago533001.html] Visiting Professor John Rothwell is a world-renowned leader in human movement function and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques for analysing changes in...