Brain Foundation

Brain Foundation The Brain Foundation is dedicated to funding critical Australian research into brain disorders, diseases, and injuries. There is no cure without research.

On behalf of all of us at the Brain Foundation and Migraine & Headache Australia, we wish you a restful holiday season a...
24/12/2025

On behalf of all of us at the Brain Foundation and Migraine & Headache Australia, we wish you a restful holiday season and a happy New Year.

To those experiencing grief, pain, or loss, we hold you in our hearts. May you find peace and comfort.

Thank you for your ongoing support and for being a valuable part of our community this year.

23/12/2025

Christmas comes once a year, but Aussie researchers are making miracles happen every day.

Your gift today has a direct, immediate impact on what discoveries are possible in 2026.

Be a part of the next breakthrough - one that could save another Australian family.

Please donate to brain research this Christmas. Every dollar makes a difference. 💚

Donate here: qrco.de/gift2025

Round two of Christmas rebus puzzles 🧩These are a great workout for your brain. Can you solve them? Rebus puzzles are vi...
22/12/2025

Round two of Christmas rebus puzzles 🧩

These are a great workout for your brain. Can you solve them?

Rebus puzzles are visual puzzles that use pictures, symbols, and letters to represent common words or phrases. These ones are all related to Christmas (think songs, characters, phrases, objects).

A year of impact, made possible by you. 2025 was filled with community, adventure, and countless moments of people comin...
20/12/2025

A year of impact, made possible by you. 2025 was filled with community, adventure, and countless moments of people coming together for a greater cause.

Every fundraiser, every shared story, every dollar raised has helped advance life-changing brain research.

This year, we were able to award 14 new research grants to brilliant Australian scientists, bringing us closer to breakthroughs that can transform diagnoses, treatment, and outcomes for people living with brain conditions.

Thank you for your continued support. Together, we are building a brighter future for brain health.

- The Brain Foundation team 💚

🎄 Holiday Notice 🎄The Brain Foundation office will be closed from 19 December to 5 January for the holiday season. Pleas...
18/12/2025

🎄 Holiday Notice 🎄

The Brain Foundation office will be closed from 19 December to 5 January for the holiday season. Please note our donation pages are still open 😊 We'll respond to all other general enquiries in the new year.

We wish you a safe and relaxing break with your loved ones.

Today is the 3rd last Tuesday of 2025! Have a crack at these Christmas-themed rebus puzzles. 🎄 🧩Rebus puzzles are visual...
16/12/2025

Today is the 3rd last Tuesday of 2025! Have a crack at these Christmas-themed rebus puzzles. 🎄 🧩

Rebus puzzles are visual puzzles that use pictures, symbols, and letters to represent common words or phrases. These ones are all related to Christmas (think songs, characters, phrases and decorations).

How many did you get? Comment a Christmas emoji if you solved them all! 👀

Brain conditions can strike without warning and change lives in an instant. One moment, Annie was a healthy 21-year-old,...
14/12/2025

Brain conditions can strike without warning and change lives in an instant.

One moment, Annie was a healthy 21-year-old, working and studying at University. The next, she was receiving life-saving surgery for a ruptured brain aneurysm.

Suddenly, life looked very different. Annie underwent several long brain surgeries, trips to the intensive care unit, months in a coma, and, eventually, weeks of brain injury rehabilitation, relearning how to walk and talk.

Today, she doesn't take a single day for granted and is fuelled by a renewed appreciation for life.

Annie's next chapter in life wouldn't have been possible without brain research.

A gift from you this Christmas will help create more incredible stories of resilience and hope.

Please, donate today and help others like Annie beat the odds. 💚

🔗 qrco.de/gift2025

12/12/2025

Dr Bryson's team will use cutting-edge neuroimaging technology to watch thousands of neurons in action, in real time, in a mouse model that closely mirrors human epilepsy.🐁🧠

They hope to uncover critical moments where interventions could prevent epilepsy from developing or reduce its severity.

It's your support that makes critical research like this possible.

Watch the rest of Dr Bryson's video on our website 💻

Australia has its first-ever national snapshot of neurological conditions. 🧠The new report by the AIHW combines data on ...
11/12/2025

Australia has its first-ever national snapshot of neurological conditions. 🧠

The new report by the AIHW combines data on the burden, prevalence, health service use and costs associated with neurological conditions across the country.

These figures only scratch the surface, but it's a welcome first step towards quantifying the immense impact these conditions have on millions of Australians.

We encourage you to explore the full report on the AIHW website.

There are specific articles available on a variety of conditions, including:
➡️ Cerebral palsy
➡️ Myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome
➡️ Dementia
➡️ Epilepsy
➡️ Functional neurological disorder
➡️ Guillain-Barré syndrome
➡️ Huntington’s disease
➡️ Migraine and headache disorders
➡️ Motor neurone disease
➡️ Multiple sclerosis
➡️ Myasthenia gravis
➡️ Parkinson’s disease
➡️ Stroke

09/12/2025

CGRP plays a key role in migraine, but we can’t currently measure it in a clinical setting.

With her 2025 Brain Foundation grant, A/Prof Sanders is working to standardise CGRP detection — a potential game-changing marker for improving diagnosis, disease activity, and treatment response in migraine.

Learn more about CGRP and migraine at the link in comments 🔗

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Dr Sanders delivered this speech at VISIBLE: An art show for migraine research, a fundraiser hosted by Zoee Mylordis in collaboration with the Brain Foundation. 🎨

Feeling like your brain needs a jump start this morning? Here’s a riddle to get those cogs moving...Drop your best guess...
08/12/2025

Feeling like your brain needs a jump start this morning? Here’s a riddle to get those cogs moving...

Drop your best guess below! 👇

"I have keys, but no doors. I have space, but no rooms. You can enter, but you can't go outside."
What am I?

08/12/2025

"This research broadens how we define a good outcome...it's about making sure that the patient who wakes up after the treatment is exactly the same person that went to sleep."

New treatments and techniques are allowing more brain aneurysms to be diagnosed and treated before they rupture; however, we don’t fully understand the impacts of these treatments.

With their 2025 Brain Foundation grant, Dr Van Der Veken and his team will investigate a critical question: How does treating an unruptured brain aneurysm impact a person’s cognitive and emotional well-being?

This important research will help doctors choose the right patients for treatment, and hopefully improve treatment decisions & patient outcomes.

This project is generously supported by and through

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