RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT New trial using cannabis derivative for chronic pain following spinal cord injury
Half of all people with spinal cord injury will develop chronic pain—just one of the unseen effects that can be debilitating for the person with an injury. A specific type of pain — neuropathic pain — can be so severe that many regard the pain as the most debilitating consequence of their injury. Neuropathic pain …
World first MUGgLE Study featured on National Imaging Facility podcast
NeuRA researcher Bart Bolsterlee and National Imaging Facility (NIF) Fellow Michael Green have been featured on a recent podcast. Host by NIF’s Alex Burton, the podcast covers the details of the world-first MUGgLE study going on at NeuRA Imaging that aims to explore our understanding of how muscles grow in children with cerebral palsy and …
RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT Biomarkers of sUbconcussive iMpacts in sPort: The ‘BUMP’ trial
MRI at NeuRA Imaging is being used to examine the structural, functional, and chemical effects of soccer heading on the brain. The University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative is conducting a randomised controlled trial at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) to better understand how subconcussive head impacts affect the brain. The trial, which is the first of …
Because Seeing Changes Everything: Placing Australian imaging at the global forefront
Today the National Imaging Facility (NIF) released Because Seeing Changes Everything, its roadmap for Australian imaging. Media release NIF is Australia’s advanced imaging network, providing open access to flagship imaging equipment, expertise, tools, data and analysis. NIF enables a full suite of advanced imaging capability including preclinical and clinical, human and animal imaging, and radiochemistry. …
“The highest-resolution images of a living brain in the world”
Professor George Paxinos has been featured in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Weekend Magazine. George has recently published a novel titled A River Divided and in his chat to Good Weekend, some of his latest research with Steve Kassem and Mark Schira at NeuRA Imaging was discussed. Along with some of their stunning images we …
Stunning brain images acquired using high-resolution diffusion-weighted imaging
Ever wondered what Diffusion-Weighted Imaging would look like when scan time is not an issue? A recent project led by Mark Schira and George Paxinos that constructed a histology grade atlas of the human brain based on in vivo diffusion MRI set out to answer that question. DWI images were collected with the assistance of …
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