Current Research
Some of the Institute’s latest cutting-edge projects include:
- Collaborative development of drugs that may halt brain cell death in Alzheimer’s.
- Research on suicide and mental illness to shape public health services so that health professionals can better assess the risk of suicide and avert tragic outcomes.
- Development of instruments to enable GPs to diagnose dementia and depression.
- Studies of brain structure in schizophrenia that could pave the way for interventions that will prevent the onset of psychosis in vulnerable individuals.
- Provision of a comprehensive telephone drug advisory service for mental health consumers, carers and professionals.
- Study of the role of oestrogen in cognitive function and brain activation that will expand our understanding of gender differences in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
- Development of Australia’s first Voices Clinic, providing cognitive behavioural therapy for people with treatment resistance auditory hallucinations and training for mental health workers to deliver the same.
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