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This is your brain on knitting

I'm super excited to share this new art-science initiative that I've helped get up and running here in ...

Explainer: what is Alzheimer’s disease?

Explainer: what is Alzheimer’s disease? By Lauren Bartley, Neuroscience Research Australia and Yue Huang, Neuroscience Research Australia Alzheimer’s ...
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April Walking Book Club: Thrive by Arianna Huffington

Our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success. They don't commemorate our long ...
Brain Immune communication expert neuroscientist Dr Mark Hutchinson

Brain-immune communication: meet the expert Dr Mark Hutchinson.

Meet Dr Mark Hutchinson. Mark's research focus is 'the other brain' and immune-to-brain and brain-to-immune communication. Mark is an Australian Research ...
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The neuroscience of how chronic pain rewires your brain [infographic]

from Thanks to totalinjury.com for this informative infographic
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Compassion fatigue? How mindfulness increases empathy and serenity in health professionals

I come from a family of nurses – my sister, cousin, aunty and grandmother are all nurses. An ...
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The neuroscience of how exercise makes you happy [infographic]

Thanks to HealthCentral for this lovely infographic.  
Immune Brain Connection

Addiction and the brain: how the immune system takes over

Dr Mark  Hutchinson is an Associate Professor and Senior Australian Research Council Research Fellow in the School of ...
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Book Club

March Walking Book Club – The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks was THE very first popular science ...

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