mental illness

workplace design

Workplaces need to move beyond promoting mental health awareness and start changing the way work is designed to prevent psychological harm, writes Carlo Caponecchia.

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Did American mathematician John Nash suffer from schizophrenia? Confusion about his condition serves as an illustration of the common diagnostic difficulty faced by clinicians, writes Gordon Parker.

 

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De-stigmatising mental illness through the stories of sporting heroes is a powerful way to tackle the issue, write Justin Richards, Philip Ward and Simon Rosenbaum.

brain inflammation

While there may be a connection between inflammation and depression, one doesn’t necessarily lead to the other, write Gordon Parker and Ute Vollmer-Conna.

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UNSW researchers at the Black Dog Institute are using digital technologies to target groups most at risk of mental illiness, including young people and those living in regional, rural and remote areas.

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Two academics have recently suggested that everyone with a mental illness could be violent. By doing so, they risk returning us to a time where the mentally ill were isolated and stigmatised, writes Olav Nielssen.

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The burden of major depression and anxiety have each increased by 37 per cent in 20 years, according to the Global Burden of Disease report.

The largest study of its kind has confirmed the existence of common genetic contributors to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Women who suffer violence at the hands of men are highly likely to experience mental disorders for the rest of their lives, new research shows.

New developments in research into depression and other mental disorders will be discussed at a major symposium at UNSW next week.

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