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Welcome to the sixth and final part of _On the Brain, a Conversation series by people whose job it is to know as much as there is to know about the body’s most complex organ. Here, Professor Malcolm Horne…
Welcome to part five of _On the brain, a Conversation series by people whose job it is to know as much as there is to know about the body’s most complex organ. Here, Lachlan Thompson, head of the Neurogenesis…
Welcome to part four of _On the brain, a Conversation series by people whose job it is to know as much as there is to know about the body’s most complex organ. Here, Neil Levy, Head of Neuroethics at Florey…
Welcome to part three of _On the brain, a Conversation series by people whose job it is to know as much as there is to know about the body’s most complex organ. Here, Professor Andrew J. Lawrence, the…
Welcome to part two of _On the brain, a Conversation series by people whose job it is to know as much as there is to know about the body’s most complex organ. Here, Malcolm Horne, deputy director of the…
Welcome to On the brain, a new Conversation series by people whose job it is to know as much as there is to know about the body’s most complex organ. Here, Professor Geoffrey Donnan, a world-renowned stroke…
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Honorary (Professorial Fellow) at the Centre for Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Officer, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Research Fellow in Brain Plasticity and Pain, Neuroscience Research Australia
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Head of behavioural neuroscience, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Head of Neural Transplantation, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health