At UQ's Queensland Brain Institute we aim to improve lives through a deeper understanding of the brain in health and disease.

The Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), established in 2003, is a leading institute focused on two of the greatest challenges of modern science: understanding brain function and the prevention and treatments of disorders of brain function.

The Queensland Brain Institute works to understand the development, organisation and function of the brain. We aim to understand the neural circuits in the brain, how their function results in behavioural outcomes, and how dysfunction of these circuits leads to disorders such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia.

In collaborations with clinicians and commercial partners, new discoveries are used as the basis to develop new therapeutic approaches to ameliorate the effects of brain diseases such as dementia, schizophrenia, motor neurone disease (MND), and anxiety and depression.