NeuRA’s Foundation Director, Roewen Wishart, explains the best ways to contribute to medical research at tax time. Fortunately for medical research, our system of government provides two ways you can support medical research. One, when you pay your taxes you are contributing to Australia’s merit-based program to support research. NeuRA’s scientists have excellent success rates in the hotly contested grants […]
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Dr Kim Delbaere, originally trained as a physiotherapist, has merged her passion for the physical body with technology and envisions a future where older adults can stay independent for longer using app based technology. From the age of 65 years and older, falls happen frequently and affect quality of life. About one in three older people fall at least once […]
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Siobhan Fitzpatrick’s PhD work aims to give back movement. Conditions that decrease a person’s ability to control their muscles, such as spinal cord injury and stroke, have devastating and debilitating consequences for individuals and their loved ones. Imagine not being able to pick up your mug of coffee, or do up the button on your coat. Small daily tasks, that […]
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Dr Susanna Park is working on ways to prevent one of the lesser known side effects of chemotherapy: nerve damage.
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In 2002, Lydia Volek had a sudden onset of dizziness and was told she would probably never get better. After learning to live with it for over a decade, Lydia stumbled upon a study to treat dizziness at NeuRA. As our guest blogger this week, Lydia tells us how participating in this research turned her life around in just a few short minutes.
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Dr Jason Bruggemann is investigating new ways of identifying children at risk of developing schizophrenia.
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If you want to reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s disease, says Dr Scott Kim, be mindful of your cholesterol levels.
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Child injury researcher Prof Lynne Bilston says parents should follow the new national child restraint guidelines to make car travel safer for their children.
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