| ACT patients turn to shock therapy - Canberra Times (22 April 2012)
Article features Prof Colleen Loo
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Should grief be considered a mental illness? - SBS, World News Australia (17 Apr 2012)
Article and program features Prof Gordon Parker
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Self harm as we age - ABC Radio National (15 March 2012)
Interview with Dr Brian Draper
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Exercise may prevent depression - ABC Radio National (13 Feb 2012)
Interview with Dr Samuel Harvey
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New report cuts review wait time for mentally ill - SMH (March 15, 2012)
CONTROVERSIAL changes that allowed seriously ill psychiatric patients to be held without review for three weeks to a month will be overturned, after an independent report found patient rights were not being protected.
Article features Dr Matthew Large
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New post to tackle $12 billion health problem - UNSW Newsroom (14 March 2012)
Common mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety, are now the leading cause of sickness absence and work incapacity in most industrialised countries, costing the Australian economy $12 billion a year, says Dr Sam Harvey, who has been appointed to the first dedicated clinical research post into workplace mental health in an Australian university.
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The intellectually disabled in Australia endure poorer health - ABC Radio National (9 Mar 2012)
People with intellectual disabilities in Australia have a life expectancy as much as 20 years less than the general population, a major medical conference in Sydney will be told.
Article features A/Prof Julian Trollor
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Electrical stimulation of the brain is a safe treatment for depression - The Conversation (6 Mar 2012)
The use of weak electrical currents to stimulate the brain is a safe treatment for depression and might even improve attention and reduce pain elsewhere in the body, an Australian study has found.
Article Features Prof Colleen Loo
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The Smile Within - ABC Compass (4 Mar 2012)
Comedian Jean-Paul Bell proves laughter is the best medicine after all as he brings joy and new life to dementia patients in Australian aged care homes.
Program features Professor Henry Brodaty.
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Sex crimes may become disorders in revamp -SMH (29 Feb 2012)
RAPISTS could be redefined as having mental disorders under proposed changes to the way psychiatric conditions are diagnosed that critics say blur the lines between bad behaviour and mental illness.
Article features Dr Matthew Large
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A new chapter for psychiatrists' bible - SMH (19 Feb 2012)
Article features Professors Gavin Andrews & Gordon Parker
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Normal grief shouldn't be labelled depression, say psychiatrists - The Australian (18 Feb 2012)
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The 'massive highs and miserable lows' of bipolar disorder - SMH (17 Feb 2012)
Article featuring Professor Philip Mitchell.
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Gordon Parker - ABC Radio (8th Feb 2012)
Gordon Parker AO is founder of the Black Dog Institute and Scientia Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales. His latest book is called "A Piece of My Mind" (Macmillan, March 2012).
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Is retirement bad for our brain? - The Age (31 Jan 2012)
Whether it's sudoku or brain training games there are plenty of options claiming to sharpen our brains as we get older, but psychiatrist Ian Hickie, Executive Director of the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Research Institute has a better idea – keep working.
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Psychosis treatment makes light work of weighty side effects - SMH (11 Jan 2012)
WHEN Julio De Le Torre awoke in hospital to be told he had suffered a psychotic episode and been diagnosed with bipolar disorder he was terrified.
But then things were compounded further when the medication he needed brought with it a crushing side effect - within six months he had gained 20 kilograms.
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