Dr Chad Bousman of the University of Melbourne wanted to know why some people developed long-term depression. His team found the answer. Research published in British Journal of Psychiatry Open focusses on the SERT gene, which transports the mood-regulating chemical...

The Melbourne Neuroscience Institute is running a comprehensive and diverse science-based work experience program for secondary school students (Year 9 and 10) in Australia. Students will have the opportunity to work with a different research each day in disciplines...

MRtrix software package was developed at the Florey Austin for the processing of diffusion MRI, is widely used internationally and currently has over 8200 downloads. MRtrix forms the basis for a Siemens Work In Progress Package that is expected to be released...

Dr Smith's research is focused on the technical development of Diffusion MRI and its application in the brain. The lab develops and maintains free open-source software for the analysis of diffusion MR data, "MRtrix", which gives the research community fast access to...

A number of students' PhD projects across institutions and sites have been supported by the use of equipment made available by VBIC. Peter Yoo is a PhD student at Parkville, who is investigating developing a novel diagnostic tool for invasive intracranial electrode...

Dr Jon Cleary's research is focused on multiple sclerosis which is an autoimmune condition characterised by inflammation and and destruction of the myelinated axonal fibres of the central nervous system. Dr Cleary tells us about his experience: I am a new University...

The project Vascular mechanisms of neurodegeneration: drivers and determinants of dementia has been awarded $6.4 million to learn more about the biological causes dementia. The collaboration involves researchers from the University of Melbourne, the Florey...

We are delighted to present the research of Shenjun Zhong. Shenjun is a PhD student at the MBI in Clayton, who is investigating accelerate algorithms in medical imaging processing and reconstruction using GPUs, especially for tractography algorithms in diffusion MRI...