Staff at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) could be forgiven for thinking that Casey Linton was an accomplished honours student having seen her working attentively in the labs over summer and occasionally being mentioned in their monthly...

21 February 2010

Researchers at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute have uncovered how antidepressants stimulate the brain to improve a person’s mood.

17 February 2010
Close up of a trigger fish's eye

Most people wouldn’t give a second thought to the inner workings of the fish eye, but research by University of Queensland scientists is unlocking the secrets hidden behind these fishy lenses.

11 February 2010

Uma Jha from Perth has been crowned the 2010 Australian Brain Bee Champion in a battle of neuroscience knowledge in Sydney.

1 February 2010

University of Queensland researchers have been awarded more than $8.6million in National Health and Medical Research Council funding announced today.

28 January 2010

Ten of the brainiest high school students from across Australia and New Zealand will fight it out for the title of 2010 Brain Bee Champion at the national finals in Sydney this weekend.

28 January 2010

Scientists at the Queensland Brain Institute have found a way to measure the attention span of a fly, which could lead to further advances in the understanding of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism in humans.

20 January 2010

Understanding the causes of autism and schizophrenia could be a step closer for researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland after they unravelled the secret world of the wasp genome.

14 January 2010