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It might sound like science fiction, but deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an increasingly common procedure for neurological disorders like Parkinson's disease. Kirsten MacGregor caught up with the Queensland Brain Institute's Professor Peter Silbrun, a leading DBS researcher and practitioner, to find out more about the treatment.

On this episode of The Compassion Initiative podcast Dr Stan Steindl and Dr James Kirby discuss the definition of compassion.

This week the grey matter in question is not the brain, but the bleached corals on the Great Barrier Reef. Professor Justin Marshal, who leads the sensory neurobiology laboratory at QBI, talks about working with Sir David Attenborough, the citizen science project Coral Watch and the unprecedented coral bleaching that is unfolding on the Great Barrier Reef.

An evening walk around Heron Island during November through to March turns up more than seaweed and sand.

UQ digital content producer Matthew Taylor joined a team of researchers on a trip to north-west Queensland – to learn all about grass.

Evoking feeling, creating conversations and bringing brightness to The University of Queensland’s walls are the motives behind a new project by the UQ Art Museum.

Inspirational teachers make a difference to the future careers of their students.

This was brought home to me recently when I was listed as one of only two Australians – and the only living Australian – on a prestigious new website published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK.

Young Australian author Josephine Rowe’s A Loving, Faithful Animal, published by The University of Queensland Press (UQP).

After seven years in a wheelchair and being told he’ll never walk again, Paralympic hopeful Ryan Raghoo is living proof that strength training can improve muscle performance for people with cerebral palsy.

Towering piles of legal documents are enough to daunt most of us, but UQ student Katherine McElrea actually gets a kick out of the challenge . . .