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Life changed quickly for Louise Remmerswaal after a shock multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis in her early thirties. It was not long before the progressive illness took her movement, independence and quality of life.

A world-wide competition will pit human against machine in a virtual high-tech car chase this weekend.

The modern life is leading people to move less and sit more.

A partnership between The University of Queensland and the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH) has led to an award-wining program designed to address Indigenous health disadvantage.

Children experiencing mental health problems who have parents with psychiatric symptoms are at higher risk of poorer mental health outcomes, according to a University of Queensland researcher.

Being diagnosed with a progressive and incurable brain disease like dementia or Parkinson’s disease is life-changing. More than 50 per cent of sufferers experience anxiety and depression. And, as Dr Nadeeka Dissanayaka of UQ’s Centre for Clinical Research explains, this impacts not just those with the condition, but also their families and society.

Dr Benfer is the creator of LEAP-CP: Learning through Everyday Activities with Parents – a community-based, parent-delivered early detection and intervention program for infants at high risk of Cerebral Palsy. The program uses smartphone technology to screen babies for the condition.

Mental health disorders are four to seven times more common among Indigenous adults than other Australians, University of Queensland researchers have found.

Child and adolescent psychiatrist Associate Professor James Scott has been acknowledged as the researcher who has made the most significant contribution to psychiatric research in Australia and New Zealand over the past five years.

For people with spinal cord injuries (SCIs), saving even a small measure of function can make a world of difference.

Ground-breaking research could see babies treated with placental stem cells to heal brain impairment caused by extreme prematurity or interruption to oxygen supply.

Singing in harmony with a choir and penning a song may decrease the rising number of older adults in retirement villages who experience social isolation and memory decline.

Across the developed world, looking older than your chronological age is considered a drawback. Western societies value physical beauty and vitality while science is actively trying to find a way to reverse the ageing process altogether.

This is probably why a study published in the latest issue of The Australasian Journal of Dermatology, that concluded Australian women report more severe signs of facial ageing sooner than other women, received a fair amount of media coverage.