Mental Health Research Institute (Melbourne) - Current Research

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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