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Bipolar Disorder: diagnosis - ABC Radio National (24th Oct 2011)
Leading researchers in bipolar disorder and depression have been in Australia for a major conference. Norman Swan talks to Professor Philip Mitchell, Head of the School of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales, about the condition and the way it's being diagnosed.
Electroconvulsive therapy - ECT - ABC Radio National (24th Oct 2011)
This is probably the treatment in medicine with the worst reputation, apart from psychosurgery. However, there have been changes over the years, how ECT is being used.
Bipolar disorder: treatment and therapies - ABC Radio National (24th Oct 2011)
In the past it's been assumed that talking therapies don't work for bipolar disorder. However, Professor Jan Scott from Newcastle University in the UK, has evidence that certain psychotherapies can and should be used.
Read the Transcripts or Listen to the Interviews
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Laughter Lift - UNSW News (21st Sept 2011)
Humour therapy is as effective as widely used antipsychotic drugs in managing agitation in patients with dementia – and avoids serious drug side effects, a new study to be presented this week at the National Dementia Research Forum shows.
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Schizophrenia and bipolar links found - The Australian (19th Sept 2011)
A WORLDWIDE alliance of scientists has identified genetic variations common to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, confirming hints the conditions are linked and raising hopes of better drug treatments being developed.
Featuring Professor Philip Mitchell
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]Another day, another report: what more do we need to know about the harms of immigration detention? - TheConversation.edu.au (16th August 2011)
The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee is due to table a report on the Migration Amendment (Detention Reform and Procedural Fairness) Bill 2010 today, hot on the heels of an announcement by the Commonwealth Ombudsman to investigate suicide and self-harm among detainees. But how much more can such reports tell us about the harm caused by detention?
Written by Dr Zachary Steel
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Mental woes high for violence victims - SMH (3rd August 2011)
A Lifetime of harm - UNSW News (4th August 2011)
Women who are victims of violence at the hands of men are highly likely to suffer mental disorders for the rest of their lives, research shows.
Featuring Dr Susan Rees
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Read UNSW News Article
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"Sexual assaults lead to mental health problems: study" - ABC.net (3rd August 2011)
Read the ABC.net transcript & listen to the Interview
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Depression prevention better than cure - UNSW News (2nd August 2011)
Eight out of ten Australians would radically change their risky behaviour if tests showed they had a genetic susceptibility to depression, a national study has found.
Article featuring research of Dr Alex Wilde
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Drugs targeting specific brain region could help people with schizophrenia manage daily life, study shows - News Medical (25th July 2011)
Schizophrenia dulls brain's rewards - UNSW News (28th July 2011)
A new study has identified the neural mechanism that hinders reward identification and decision-making in people suffering from schizophrenia, highlighting the need for more effective drug therapies to help people with the disease manage their daily lives.
Article featuring the research of Dr Tom Weickert.
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"Research stars" - UNSW News (20th December 2010)
Dr Michael Valenzuela, from UNSW Medicine, has been honoured with an NHMRC excellence award for being the highest-ranked researcher in the clinical category. His research aims at understanding the competing forces of degeneration and neuroplasticity in the human brain.
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Heart for the Mind - UNSWTV
Professor Cyndi Shannon Weickert dreamed of being a chef until a family tragedy led her down the path of research into schizophrenia. She is now one of the world’s experts on the condition.
Watch the story on UNSWTV
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"Secrets of living to 100" - UNSW News (12th November 2010)
The first Australasian conference on centenarians – Living to 100: The Science and the Art – was opened by the Federal Minister for Ageing, Mark Butler, and brought together leading researchers from Australia and the United States.
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| Secrets of living to 100 - UNSW News (12 November 2010)
The first Australasian conference on centenarians – Living to 100: The Science and the Art – was opened by the Federal Minister for Ageing, Mark Butler, and brought together leading researchers from Australia and the United States, including our own Scientia Professor Perminder Sachdev & Professor Hentry Brodaty.
Read the article on UNSW News
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Inside the Autistic Brain - Uniken (Issue 59 - Nov Dec 2010)
'The ability to read normal social cues is something most of us take for granted. Yet people with some psychiatric disorders often fail to pick up on signs...new technology means researchers are beginning to better understand what is happening in the “social brain” of people with autism..'
Article features Prof Roshel Lenroot & Prof Valsma Eapen.
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60 Minutes - Charmaine’s Dark Secret (Aired Fri 22 Oct)
News reader Charmaine Dragun battled depression, until one day she decided she was done fighting. For those trying to understand what went wrong, their worst fears have now been confirmed.
Story features Prof Gordon Parker
Watch the story on-line or Read the Transcript (below the video window)
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ARC Linkage Grants 2011 - School of Psychiatry staff among those awarded grants.
Congratulations to Vaughan Carr, Valsa Eapen, Julian Trollor & Phillip Ward and their respective teams on having been successful in the 2011 ARC Linkage Grants anounced yesterday.
Read the UNSW News Article
See the list from ARC of all those from UNSW awarded.
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2010 NSW Scientist of the Year
Scientia Professor Perminder Sachdev has been awarded the 2010 NSW Office for Science and Medical Research (OSMR) Scientist of the Year in the Biomedical Sciences.
Read | NSW Office for Science and Medical Research Press Release
Read | Faculty of Medicine Newsletter
Read | UNSW News
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Acupuncture for Depression - (UNSW News, 17 Sept 2010)
UNSW researchers have shown for the first time that acupuncture produces significant changes in parts of the brain that regulate emotional states ...
Article featuring Scientia Professor Perminder Sachdev
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Insight - SBS Television (Aired: 11 May 2010)
Anxiety - What is it and can it be cured?
Featuring Professor Gavin Andrews.
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"A Hundred, not out" - Uniken (Issue 58 - Sept/Oct 2010)
Article featuring Scientia Professor Perminder Sachdev
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"Taxing the body,helping the hip pocket" - Uniken (May/June Issue, Pg 13)
While prevention is better than cure, that approach has gone largely unheeded among Australians, writes Dr Michael Valenzuela, Research Fellow in the School of Psychiatry.
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"Clowning around with dementia" - Uniken (Issue 58 - Sept/Oct 2010)
Article featuring Professor Henry Brodaty
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Don't condemn patients to park bench or prison (The Australian 19 March 2010)
Who cares about acute psychiatric beds? Nobody apparently. That is, nobody does until they need one.
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More than one shade of darkness (SMH, 26 Aug 2010)
Melancholia has split the psychiatric community, writes Michael Slezak.
Article features Prof Gordon Parker
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"Pushing ahead" - Uniken (May June Issue, Pg 14)
In Australia people with disability often live on the fringes of society. But as Dani Cooper reports, the work of UNSW researchers is ensuring their voices are heard.
Features Associate Professor Julian Trollor & Professor Rhoshel Lenroot
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Academic Women in UNSW Medicine
UNSW Medicine has a long and proud tradition of employing and promoting women academics across all its Schools and affiliated research institutes.
This booklet feature Dr Melissa Green (Page 7) and Dr Ute Vollmer-Conna (Page 17).
Download the Booklet (.PDF)
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Think again: Reinterpreting the brain (Sydney Morning Herald Online - 1 April 2010)
The old textbook diagram of the human brain with dotted lines and labels like ''speech'' or ''vision'' is becoming obsolete......
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New Artwork Unvieled in the SCH Community Health Centre
A newly commissioned painting titled "The Tree of Life" was unveiled recently at the SCHCHC. Among those speaking at the unveiling was Professor Florence Levy.
Read About It the Event
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Brainiac Wins Fulbright.
UNSW News: She's a whizz at maths, has Honours degrees in physics and fine arts and is studying for a doctorate in neuroscience: now Angela Langdon has won a prestigious scholarship to help her develop a mathematical model of the brain.
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UNSWorld - Alumni Magazine (June 2010 - Issue 12)
"Screening to Safeguard Young Lives" - Page 17
Features Mona Taouk
"Demistifying Depression" - Page 17
Features Gordon Parker
Read the Articles in UNSWorld - (Use arrows on bottom right to turn pages)
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UNSWTV: Professor Gordon Parker from Black Dog Institute talks to Steve Offner about his career in psychiatry and in particular the treatment of the extreme mood disorder melancholia.
Watch it on UNSWTV
A podcast of the entire interview is available on UNSW's iTunesU Health section.
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Nine MSN - (Published: 13 Jul 2010)
"Refugees' mental health at risk: expert" (Article by Danny Rose)
Features Dr Zachary Steel
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A Melancholy Moment - Uniken (Mar/Apr 2010)
Once the dominant form of depression, melancholia is today a largely forgotten condition.
As Steve Offner reports, Professor Gordon Parker is fighting for the recognition of the illness, arguing lives are being put at risk.
Read the Article (Pg 10-11) - Warning: PDF Download.
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Mood for Change UNSW News - 19 March 2010
Professor of Psychiatry Gordon Parker is leading an international campaign to have the serious mood disorder melancholia recognised as an illness in its own right.
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UNSW News - 13 Nov 2009
Targeting teen depression - Mona Taouk
Psychologist Mona Taouk is developing a world-first questionnaire to identify young people at risk of depression and suicide.....
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Insight - SBS Television
Brainiacs - Featuring Dr Michael Valenzuela (aired 3 Nov 2009)
Can we make ourselves smarter? What is your IQ? New scientific research has unlocked the secrets of the adult brain. It is not hard wired but plastic. You can teach an old dog new tricks.
Read the overview | Watch the episiode On-line
UNSW News - 30 Oct 2009
Young Poppies stand tall - Dr Michael Valenzuela, one of seven awarded the Young Tall Poppies Award
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UNSW News - 16 Oct 2009
Bridging the Divide - Dr Melissa Green
For the first time, sufferers of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are being brought together in a major new study investigating the diseases’ common genetic causes and manifestations.......
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Catalyst - ABC TV
Virtual Clinic (Sadness Program) (aired 8/10/09)
Logging on to beat the blues, a sign of our tech savvy times? Is it as effective as face to face therapy? Dr Norman Swan logs on to check it out.
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Sadness Program: Online Treatment for Depression - Aired on 1 June 2009
Professor Gavin Andrews talks of this innovative approach to treating depression on UNSWTV. |
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Insight - SBS Television
Coping with Baby - Why does having a baby push some couples to the brink? (aired 22 Sept 2009)
Professor Marie-Paule Austin appears on an episode of Insight dealing with post-natal depression and it's affects on both women and men.
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Australian Story (ABC) - 11 May 2009
Professor Cyndi Shannon Weickert once dreamed of being a famous chef until her twin brother Scott Shannon was diagnosed with schizophrenia in his teens. |
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ABC Radio National
Professor Philip Mitchell Interviews
Life Matters: Depression in the public eye (on air 23 Sept 2009)
National Interest: Turning off the drug company drip feed to doctors (on air 11 Sept 2009)
Follow the links above to read the full transcripts or to listen to Prof Mitchells interviews. |
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"Justice for all" - Special Report on Masters of Forensic Mental Health Program in SMH (27/4/09) |
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"Mother of all changes" - Uniken Article featuring Professor Marie-Paule Austin (appeared in Issue May/Jun 2009) |
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"The woman who took on the world and won" - Uniken Article featuring Dr Ute Vollmer-Conna (appeared in Issue Mar/Apr 2009) |
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Australian Rotary Foundation Presentation (30/4/09) |