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Breakthrough in search for tinnitus cure

9 August 2022

University of Auckland scientists are excited by results from a trial of a new treatment for tinnitus.
Flagship research centres to tackle urgent societal challenges

1 August 2022

Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland launches Hīkina kia Tutuki Research Centres, focused on our most pressing challenges.
Brain box: doctoral student Delshad Kalantary's goal to help with memory loss

1 June 2022

Delshad Kalantary has adopted a Kiwi DIY attitude and built a light-therapy box she hopes one day could help with memory loss.
Dr Gary Cheung named the 2021 Alzheimers New Zealand Fellow

24 November 2021

Congratulations to Dr Gary Cheung on being selected as the 2021 Alzheimers New Zealand Fellow.
Pacific-centred higher education and dementia research: Rutherford Fellows announced

11 November 2021

Two distinguished early career researchers from the Faculties of Arts and Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland are recipients of the $800,000 Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Looking inside our bodies with physics

28 September 2021

MRI Physicist Dr Catherine Morgan is using the physics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging to find early predictors of dementia.
Dementia's looming toll exposed in research report

28 September 2021

Dementia is set to cost $6 billion a year by 2050, posing a major risk to New Zealand’s health system, according to a University of Auckland report.
Grafton Campus a hive of activity as Brain Bee returns

16 July 2021

On 1 July 2021, the Centre for Brain Research once again hosted the North Island site visit as part of the New Zealand Brain Bee competition. Around 150 year-11 students from the Far North to Wellington visited the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences for a day all about neuroscience.
Malvindar Singh-Bains: hunting for a cure for hereditary brain disease

1 June 2021

Dr Malvindar Singh-Bains from the Centre for Brain Research would like greater awareness of how the hereditary brain disease Huntington’s affects families.
Brain problems from sport, psychedelics for cancer patients: research funding

28 May 2021

New Zealand's first research examining the brain tissue of people with sports-related brain degeneration is being funded by the Health Research Council.
Brain's tiny pulsations revealed in 'stunning' 3D images

6 May 2021

A breakthrough imaging technique could help researchers and doctors to understand and treat brain disorders.
The 150-year-old mystery disease killing two New Zealanders a week

29 April 2021

New Zealand has one of the world’s worst rates of a fatal brain disease. Now, scientists hunting rogue genes hope to unravel the 150-year-old mystery of what triggers the disease and how to find a cure.

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