About us
Our Story
The Queensland Multidisciplinary Initiative for Neurocognitive Difficulties (QLD MIND) Project was founded in 2018. It is a multi-site translational research project that represents an alliance between The University of Queensland, The Mater Group and The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH). At present, our group consists of more than seventy researchers, clinicians, academics, and postgraduate research students. In the few years since formation we have already commenced research across a broad spectrum of disorders including Parkinson’s disease, Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, and Epilepsy, as well as exploring the effects of normal ageing on cognition.
Our Vision
Cognitive difficulties (such as problems with memory or recognising facial emotions) create problems for many people in our community, and for some, can profoundly impact their quality of life and wellbeing. Our vision is to deliver the science that establishes when, why, and how specific aspects of cognitive function break down in people’s actual, daily lives, and what strategies most effectively prevent this from occurring.
Our Funding Sources
| Australian Research Council | National Health and Medical Research Council Medical Research Future Fund |
| Merck Serono Australia Pty Ltd | The National Injury Insurance Scheme, Queensland |
| Metro South Health Research Support Scheme | The University of Queensland |
| Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia |
Our Director
Professor Julie Henry
Julie is a Professor at The University of Queensland, and an Affiliate Professor at both The Queensland Brain Institute and The Mater Research Institute. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Association for Psychological Science. Julie has published more than 200 original research articles (cited > 16,000 times in Scopus and > 31,000 times in Google Scholar), which appear in high impact outlets that include Cognition, Psychological Bulletin, Cortex, Developmental Science, Annual Review of Psychology, Psychology and Aging, Emotion, Brain, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, and Nature Reviews Neurology. She has held many prestigious editorial appointments, including Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Clinical Psychology (2011-2017), and is President of the Australian Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Julie is also co‑chair of the Research Involvement Panel for StepUp for Ageing Research and StepUp for Dementia Research. If you are interested in ageing, age care and/or dementia research, please consider registering.
Julie’s personal webpage can be accessed here at: http://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/2589.