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.
Read more about this topic: Mental Health Research Institute (Melbourne)
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