So you’re depressed. You know this because a health profession has told you so, or because there is no mistaking the symptoms. Perhaps you’ve been depressed before. What now?
Professor Pat Dudgeon and Tony Jones, speaking on Q&A, October 5, 2015.
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Q&A presenter Tony Jones asked psychologist and research fellow Pat Dudgeon if Indigenous youth suicide rates across the top half of Australia are the highest in the world. We check the research evidence.
People who believe their problems have biogenetic causes tend to opt for biomedical treatments.
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Biological and genetic explanations of mental illness can weaken people’s sense of control and optimism, and create a bias against effective psychological interventions.
Trichotillomania is a psychological disorder that leads people to compulsively and uncontrollably pull out their own hair.
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People with trichotillomania often pull to the point of causing complete hair loss even though that’s never intended or desired. And this eventually leaves them feeling depressed and isolated.
Some women are very sensitive to small shifts in hormones, others aren’t.
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In recent times, we have learnt more about the connections between the “reproductive” or gonadal hormones and the brain, and how they affect not only women but men as well.
Left scarred by going into care.
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One of the experts behind the ONS’ well-being project explains why it’s so important for the government to know how you’re feeling.
The erection of barriers and nets at public sites with a high incidence of suicide results in far fewer deaths – at the site and nearby locations.
Jane Pirkis
On closing the asylums, Australia failed to invest in an alternative model of community mental health care. So there are few alternatives between the GP surgery and the hospital emergency department.
Knitting and neuroscience have more in common than you might think.
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Neural Knitworks, an event first staged for National Science Week in 2014, has since grown into an Australia-wide engagement project promoting connections between knitting and brain health.
Who ya gonna call? The World Health Organization has been criticised for its poor response to last year’s Ebola outbreak.
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William Isdale speaks with Lawrence Gostin about the lessons we can learn from the global response to last year's Ebola outbreak and the future of global health.
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological conditions in the world.
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Graeme Jackson, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Saying someone has epilepsy is a little like saying they’re ill. Its cause can vary from a brain tumour to an inherited genetic condition, the consequence of injury or a disorder affecting the brain.
Lance Franklin has been ruled out of Saturday’s qualifying final due to a mental health condition.
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People with mental health issues and learning disabilities should all have someone to make sure the police don’t take advantage of them during interviews.
New tests and drugs have always impacted health care. But completely different kinds of emerging technologies will soon radically alter how health care is both accessed and delivered.
The number of youth mental health centres known as headspace has rapidly expanded in the last decade. But we have yet to see evaluation of whether the services improve young people’s mental health.
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary