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Against all odds, the Barnetts are together this Christmas. It’s your support that makes miracles like this possible. 💚H...
23/11/2025

Against all odds, the Barnetts are together this Christmas. It’s your support that makes miracles like this possible. 💚

Help us fund life-saving brain research that uncovers better ways to detect, diagnose, and care for the millions of Australians living with brain conditions.

Every gift, no matter the size, transforms hope into real progress.

🎁 Donate now: qrco.de/gift2025

📖 Read the Barnetts' story here: https://brainfoundation.org.au/aneurysm-story-barnett-family/

If you would like to leave a gift over the phone instead, we’d love to hear from you:
(02) 9437 5967

🎄 22 Years of Impact in Tamworth🎄This year’s Brain Foundation Tamworth Christmas Fair was a great success! On a beautifu...
21/11/2025

🎄 22 Years of Impact in Tamworth🎄

This year’s Brain Foundation Tamworth Christmas Fair was a great success! On a beautiful sunny Sunday morning, the community came together for Christmas shopping with 60+ amazing local vendors, delicious food, and live music.

Since starting in 2004, the Fair has raised more than $400,000 for critical brain research. This year, funds will support Dr Emma Macdonald-Laurs’ pediatric epilepsy research grant: Using AI to detect hidden brain lesions that cause seizures in children.

A heartfelt thank you to the organisers, stallholders, sponsors, and attendees — your support continues to make a real difference. 💚

We’re proud to share that Dr Suraj Samtani — one of our amazing speakers from this year’s — has contributed his social...
20/11/2025

We’re proud to share that Dr Suraj Samtani — one of our amazing speakers from this year’s — has contributed his social health expertise to an upcoming documentary premiering on Disney+ at the end of November.

In this powerful piece, Chris Hemsworth takes his father, Craig, who has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's, on a memory-filled road trip across Australia, exploring how social bonds and connection can protect brain health and fight dementia.

What a meaningful opportunity to break down stigma and highlight the importance of staying connected. We are looking forward to watching 👏

This week's brain teaser is a spin on a popular cognitive puzzle, called the remote association test (RAT). 🧩🤔It is desi...
18/11/2025

This week's brain teaser is a spin on a popular cognitive puzzle, called the remote association test (RAT). 🧩🤔

It is designed to get you to think creatively to find a common link between three separate words. The word you're looking for precedes (goes before) the words on the screen. For example, ___deck, ___class, ___lip could be 'upper'.

Hint: The answers can be anything from compound words (e.g. butterfly) and common idioms (cold turkey) to phrases, events, or places.

How did you go? Let us know in the comments!

" I don’t think it’s just about survival or absence of huge strokes, but making sure that the person’s cognitive and emo...
17/11/2025

" I don’t think it’s just about survival or absence of huge strokes, but making sure that the person’s cognitive and emotional well-being remains unchanged, and making sure that the patient who wakes up after the treatment is exactly the same person that went to sleep."

Dr Jorn Van Der Veken has received a 2025 Brain Foundation grant for his important research investigating how treating unruptured aneurysms might impact the patient’s cognitive function.

This research aims to help doctors choose the right patients for treatment, provide clearer information during decision-making, and ultimately lead to better patient outcomes. 🧠

You can read more about his project on our website 🔗 https://brainfoundation.org.au/research-grants/2025/cerebrovascular-7/

16/11/2025

Beyond plaques and tangles, Dr Couttas is investigating a largely overlooked pathway in Alzheimer’s disease.

Congratulations to Dr Timothy Couttas, one of our 2025 Brain Foundation Grant Recipients. 👏

Dr Couttas is looking at lipid imbalance and myelin damage in Alzheimer’s disease.

Through this research, his team aims to open up opportunities for earlier diagnosis and new treatments aimed at protecting or restoring myelin health. 🧠🔬

You can read more about Dr Couttas's research on our website 🔗

💚 Run for Tony 💚Last Sunday, an incredible team of 54 runners and walkers took on the Canberra Marathon in honour of Ton...
14/11/2025

💚 Run for Tony 💚

Last Sunday, an incredible team of 54 runners and walkers took on the Canberra Marathon in honour of Tony, a beloved dad, husband, brother and friend who tragically lost his life to a ruptured brain aneurysm.

His sudden, unexpected passing has left a huge hole in the hearts of his wife, children, family, and friends.

In memory of Tony, they took on the half-marathon to raise awareness and support crucial research—so that fewer families have to face the same, unimaginable heartbreak.

Together, they have raised over $10,000 for brain research. We are beyond grateful for their efforts, which will go a long way in improving diagnosis, detection, treatment and outcomes.

In the early 1900s, German physician Alois Alzheimer described "adipose saccules" and "lipoid granules"—small droplets o...
13/11/2025

In the early 1900s, German physician Alois Alzheimer described "adipose saccules" and "lipoid granules"—small droplets of fatty substances—within the brain cells of his patient.

He regarded this "lipid degeneration" as a key hallmark of the disease, comparable in importance to the plaques and tangles he also observed.

While amyloid plaques and tau tangles became the focus of AD research for decades, Alzheimer's observations of lipid buildup have remained largely understudied until recently.

Dr Timothy Couttas is one of our 2025 grant recipients. 🎉

His team will be investigating lipid imbalance and myelin damage in Alzheimer’s disease.

12/11/2025

A faster, radiation-free way to diagnose & monitor dementia 🧠🔎

Dr Jun Cao is one of our fantastic 2025 grant recipients. In his research, his team will compare FDG-PET scans to a new MRI-based scan, with the ultimate goal of developing a faster, safer, radiation-free scan for dementia diagnosis and monitoring.

If successful, this project could have far-reaching effects and make dementia care more accessible, particularly for Australians living regionally or rurally.

Your support makes critical research like this possible. Thank you 💚

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Watch the full interview on our YouTube page at Brain Foundation 🔗

Congratulations to Dr Jun Cao, one of our research grant recipients for 2025. 🎉 Dementia affects 55 million people world...
12/11/2025

Congratulations to Dr Jun Cao, one of our research grant recipients for 2025. 🎉

Dementia affects 55 million people worldwide, but current diagnostic tools like FDG-PET scans are costly and not widely available.

Dr Cao’s research will explore a new MRI-based approach that’s non-invasive and radiation-free.

“If it is successful, this technique will make dementia diagnosis and monitoring much safer, faster, and more accessible.”

Congratulations to Dr Cao and his co-investigators at NeuRA on this exciting research advancement. 👏🧠

Watch Dr Cao talk about the project 🔗 https://brainfoundation.org.au/research-grants/2025/alzheimers-dementias-2/

Can you unscramble these brainy words? Hint: The blue letter is the first letter of the word.All the words relate to the...
11/11/2025

Can you unscramble these brainy words?

Hint: The blue letter is the first letter of the word.

All the words relate to the BRAIN... think about both its functions and its parts. 🧠

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