In his Australia Day address, noted brain surgeon Charlie Teo said he was ashamed to admit to an American friend, who had received a US$50 million grant in the US to study brain cancer, that he works with just AU$150,000 over three years from the Australian government.
Teo says we need another AIS – one for sport, one for science.
Issued for the Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland.
Researchers from Brisbane, Edinburgh and Aberdeen have revisited about 2,000 people who had intelligence tests in 1932 or1947, and shown that genetic factors may account for about a quarter of the changes in intelligence over their lives.
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Researchers have developed a memory stress test that can be used to predict those at risk of developing dementia. It is based on the finding that the brain’s response to increasing mental stress can predict a future decline in everyday functioning.
Prof Michael Breakspear, Coordinator, Mental Health and Complex Disorders, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
The popular notion of how muscles function has been turned on its head with the publication of new and revealing ultrasound images. Scientists long believed that muscle fibres lie in straight lines. These new images, however, reveal that muscle fibres in fact buckle when they are shortened and at rest.
http://www.neura.edu.au/news-events/news/researchers-gain-new-insight-how-muscles-work
Prof Simon Gandevia, Neuroscience Research Australia
Users of heroin and other addictive opioids may be spared from distressing withdrawal symptoms in the future. In an article just published in Nature Neuroscience the researchers describe for the first time a protein in nerve cells that drives the withdrawal response.
Prof MacDonald Christie, Pharmacology, University of Sydney, and Brain and Mind Research Institute
Nature Neuroscience, http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20113110-22781.html
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