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Professor Nutti’s Retirement celebration in Sienna 2013

Professor Nutti’s Retirement celebration in Sienna 2013

The career journey so far… so many places, people, and learnings. We’ve been going through images from travels across the world, to celebrations of wonderful people met… and this is another flashback to Professor Nutti’s Retirement celebration in Sienna 2013…

Safety Valve | Harvard Medical School

Quote; Their findings reveal a unique biological mechanism for maintaining fluid pressure and composition and may inform the study and treatment of disorders involving defects in inner ear pressure such as Meniere’s disease, a condition marked by vertigo, hearing loss and ringing in the ears. The results could also help researchers study pressure control in […]

Highly Precise Wiring in the Cerebral Cortex; Margie shares

Highly Precise Wiring in the Cerebral Cortex; Margie shares

Connectomics and Cortical Transistors Margie shares; German scientists have recently discovered a precise nerve cell connectivity pattern (nerve cell circuits) in part of the cerebral cortex, which is responsible for orienting us in space. These grid cells provide a very particular representation of the space around the individual human and are known to be active when […]

Catching Mariella Graziano from Luxemburg

Catching Mariella Graziano from Luxemburg

CENTRE UPDATE Professor Dr Margie Sharpe is currently overseas – however she has sent us an update of her with colleague Mariella Graziano, from Luxemburg, who she keeps bumping in to… 1.  On left is IFOS Paris Conference June 2017 2.  On right is WCPT Congress Cape Town South Africa July 2017. Note; Mariella is a physiotherapist, active […]

Research required to look at connections between head injuries and dementia

Research required to look at connections between head injuries and dementia

The time is right to reopen discussions and to conduct research looking at the effects of mild traumatic head injuries and the connections to dementia later in life. Since the publication of Alzheimer’s Australia NSW’s paper in March 2013, examining the connection between later-life cognitive impairment and dementia (primarily Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy — CTE) in […]