Welcome to the Neuro Recovery Research Hub, a new research facility led by Professor Sylvia Gustin at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

The NeuroRecovery Research Hub is located at UNSW Sydney (University of New South Wales). The Hub brings together a multi-disciplinary team of passionate researchers aiming to effectively treat these conditions using cutting-edge science research methods and novel technology-based interventions.

Meet Professor Sylvia Gustin head of the NeuroRecovery Research Hub.

Over the next five (5) years The Neuro Recovery Research hub is running clinical trials in collaboration with the US Dep. of Defence spinal cord injury program, Wings for Life, NHMRC (National Health Medical Research Council), MRFF (Medical Research Future Fund), and NSW Health to support innovation in neuro recovery research.

The NeuroRecovery Research hub is working in partnership with NSW Health and Immersive Experience Laboratories in America to trial an innovative program that has been in development over the last three (3) years called The Avatar Program. Research has shown that 50% of complete spinal cord injury people who cannot feel, still have messages going through to the brain. The program aims to retrain the brain to identify, understand and act to messages being received.

Chronic pain is more than a painful experience, it is highly emotional. Our research group has discovered for the first time that ongoing pain decreases the content of the brain’s neurotransmitters Glutamate and GABA in the area of the brain responsible for processing emotion. Watch to learn about two programs being developed to improve the emotional and sensory elements of chronic pain.