Young women are disproportionately affected by multiple sclerosis, a disease where the body attacks the brain, scrambling communication to the rest of the body. Here’s what we know about the causes.
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Genes, drugs in early life, and stress have been linked to the development of schizophrenia.
More kids these days have asthma, and more people in the Western world, so do we know what causes it in the first place?
Spoiler: there’s a lot more that we don’t know about what causes chronic fatigue.
There is usually no one factor that causes breast cancer. It’s likely a combination of the effects of a person’s risks combined with an element of bad luck.
SIDS is diagnosed when no other cause of death is found, but SIDS infants do have some characteristics in common.
Some depression is caused by environmental factors, and some is biological.
While research for a cure for MND is underway, first we need to know what causes it.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, but treatments are still far from successful in clinical trials. Here is what we know about the disease, and what is yet to be uncovered.
Parkinson’s disease is the second-most-prevalent neurodegenerative condition in Australia, with an estimated 70,000 living with the disease. But what do we know about the causes and risk factors?
One of the great and enduring mysteries of autism is what causes the brain to develop so differently.
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Deputy Head, Health and Social Care Unit Monash University, NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow, Associate Professor, Monash University
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Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Research Fellow, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Senior Lecturer in School of Medicine, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Breast Cancer Research, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Sciences,, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology, Monash University
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Research Fellow, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University
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Lecturer in the School of Medicine, University of Adelaide
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Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Medical Science, University of Adelaide
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Respiratory Immunology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
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PhD candidate in Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland
