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Cutting-edge brain technology takes out top Velocity prize

1 November 2022

A tool to improve precision and safety during neurosurgery is shining a new light on the old adage, measure twice and cut once.
Neuroscientist Chris Shaw a coup for University of Auckland

31 October 2022

Professor Chris Shaw is a neurologist at the forefront of gene therapies for neurodegenerative disorders. He’s bringing his expertise to the Centre for Brain Research.
Booklet on aphasia a good thing

31 October 2022

New book "It's a Thing" aims to raise awareness of aphasia, which often accompanies brain injury.
Outstanding brain scientist wins research medal

19 October 2022

Professor Mike Dragunow has been awarded the Peter Gluckman Medal 2022 in recognition of three decades of research on therapies for brain injuries and trauma.
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.

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