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The glymphatic system, which clears waste from the brain and is most active during sleep, plays a crucial role in maintaining brain health. This...
Supervisor: Dr Akram Zamani

Obesity is an enormous health concern, both in Australia and worldwide. Our laboratory recently published a function for the ETS-5 transcription...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death worldwide, disproportionately affecting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds....
Supervisor: Dr Lachlan Dalli

One of the fundamental mysteries in neuroscience concerns how microscopic (i.e., cellular and molecular) processes shape the complex array of large-...
Supervisor: Dr James Pang

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (notably, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia) are a significant cause of severe morbidity, long-term disability and...
Supervisor: Dr Maureen Makama

--------------------------------------------- Background: --------------------------------------------- Antimicrobial resistance is a key global...
Supervisor: Ben Vezina

This project explores: (1) the physical and mental health needs of paramedic students to function safely in the paramedic industry, and (2) methods...
Supervisor: Dr Simon Sawyer

Background and Rationale: Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) and juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE) are generalized epilepsy syndromes characterized by...

Background and Rationale: Differentiating idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) from focal epilepsy (FE) can be challenging, particularly when...

Objective: To investigate the influence of laser acupuncture on neuroplasticity, assessed using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). Design...

Clinical gait analysis (CGA) involves the use of motion capture technology to assess the way a person walks. CGA is commonplace in paediatric and...
Supervisor: Mr Corey Joseph

Cognitive decline is a major health and social issue, as it negatively affects quality of life of older adults, and increases risk of dementia (such...
Supervisor: Dr Barbara R Cardoso

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is characterised by extreme self-control, partly generated by exaggerated prefrontal cortex activity, which leads to inflexible...
Supervisor: Dr Claire Foldi

Transitive inference is a fundamental cognitive function and the basis of deductive reasoning that allows one to derive a relation between objects/...
Supervisor: Dr Mehdi Adibi

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic autoimmune disorder affecting the brain and spinal cord. The accurate and timely diagnosis of multiple sclerosis...
Supervisor: Dr. Nevin John

The status of the airways is constantly monitored by the respiratory sensory nerves which send the detected signals to the brain for further...
Supervisor: Dr Aung Aung Kywe Moe

Organism-specific interpretation of antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) data is standard in clinical microbiology, with rules regularly...
Supervisor: Dr Jane Hawkey

Immunotherapies have transformed the treatment of many cancers, but not prostate cancer. Chimeric-antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, in which a...
Supervisor: Dr Laura Porter

Heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is increasing in prevalence and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. The...

Status epilepticus (SE), characterised by prolonged or repeated seizures with incomplete recovery, is a critical neurological emergency associated...
Supervisor: Dr Janine Liu

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