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Rural and remote residents have specific problems in accessing mental health services. WORC-rural… National Mental Health Service Planning Framework: Epidemiology flow charts: population based planning for mental health … Mental Health Policy Research Project… research interests are in psychiatric epidemiology and burden of disease measurement, mental health policy… : The activity and capacity of Tasmania’s 2018–19 mental health services were compared to estimates of…
Professor Whiteford is Director of the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research. His research interests are in psychiatric epidemiology and burden of disease measurement, mental health policy and service reform.
Professor Whiteford trained in medicine, psychiatry and health policy at the Univer …
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Engagement with perinatal mental health services: a cross-sectional questionnaire survey… health, women’s imaging, and medical education. She is completing a PhD on ‘Forgotten Fathers in… how the pandemic affected perinatal mental health and other pregnancy and neonatal outcomes in a…
Associate Professor Alka Kothari is a Senior Staff Specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Conjoint Site-Coordinator of the Northside Clinical Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, at Redcliffe Hospital. She encourages multi-disciplinary research in perinatal mental health, w …
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apply them to several large cohorts in Brisbane, at both the Queensland Brain Institute and the… Schizophrenia polygenic risk scores in youth mental health: preliminary associations with diagnosis, clinical stage and functioning… Gene Environment interactions in Mental health trajectories of Youth (Youth-GEMs)… Youth-GEMs: Gene Environment interactions in Mental health trajectories of Youth… critical in preventing later mental illness. The Child and Youth Mental Health Group is… to adulthood and to evaluate genetic and environmental contributions to risk to mental health… Stress is associated with poorer physical and mental health. To improve our understanding of this…
The objective of my research is to improve understanding of the genetic etiology and biological mechanisms underlying risk of common psychiatric disorders, particularly those with onset during childhood and adolescence. As a Senior Research Fellow at the Child Health Research Centre, I lead a number …
My research has contributed to advances in a number of fields through the identification of previously unknown genetic variants that contribute to risk to complex disorders. The identification of these variants opens up new avenues for developing drug targets to target the biological pathways in whi …
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Pragmatic evaluation of existing and novel mental health services to guide evidence based mental health policy and practice.… staffing model for residential mental health rehabilitation: a mixed methods protocol incorporating multiple stakeholder perspectives… Mental health services evaluation… mental health services, and listening to their perspectives about what has and has not worked in previous…
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Mental Health in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder… Project 3.015C Health and Wellbeing for Adults (Autism CRC)… health and mental health of adults with intellectual disability and those on the autism spectrum. Cathy… services, and increasing specialist intellectual and developmental disability mental health teams.…
Dr Cathy Franklin is passionate about improving the health of people with intellectual disability and those on the autism spectrum. Cathy is a psychiatrist who has specialised in the psychiatry of intellectual disability and autism in adolescents and adults since 2004. Her career focussed on clinica …
Cathy, along with colleague Dr Katie Brooker, made a submission and gave evidence at teh Queensland Parliament Mental Health Select Committee in 2022, outlining the evidence around the difficulties that people with intelelctual disabitliy and those on the autism spectrum experience when accessing he …
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Disruption to the 5-HT7 Receptor Following Hypoxia-Ischemia in the Immature Rodent Brain… Targeting the NLRP3-inflammasome in IUGR brain injury… synaptic connections, neurodevelopment and cellular changes associated with injury in the neonatal brain… with poor long-term outcomes and increased neuropathology. Blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption and…
Dr Kirat Chand is a Research Fellow at the Perinatal Research Centre at The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR). His field of expertise include the establishment of synaptic connections, neurodevelopment and cellular changes associated with injury in the neonatal brain. His …
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Health Outcomes Measurement 1999-2000 - Depression in Stroke Patients… in older person's mental health services. For further information please contact Gerard Byrne on 07 3365 5148.… The use of healthcare services for mental health problems by middle-aged and older adults… Mental health and ageing project… Medicine at the University of Queensland and Director of the Older Persons' Mental Health Service at… old people with mental health problems seen in various settings. Accordingly, we developed and…
Gerard Byrne is the Mayne Professor and Head of the Academy of Psychiatry within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland and Director of the Older Persons' Mental Health Service at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. His primary research interests include Alzheimer's disease (pa …
Prof Gerard Byrne and Prof Nancy Pachana have been engaged in a longterm program of research into anxiety in later life. With the assistance of students and colleagues, they have developed a suite of instruments to measure anxiety in older people. These instruments include the Geriatric Anxiety Inve …
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Mental health and indigenous connection to land and community… Improving the Mental Health of Indigenous Australians with Chronic Disease… Multiple projects in chronic disease, mental health and rural health related fields.… Mental Health… health research. Her substantial career trajectory is evidenced by growing publication and research… disease and mental health disorders.Using community-based participatory research principles, this…
Dr. Bushra Nasir is the Director of the Medical Research Futures Fund in Primary Health Care Digital Innovations - ID-INSPIRED and a mid-career researcher with a substantial career trajectory in health research. Her substantial career trajectory is evidenced by growing publication and research outpu …
Dr Nasir’s research has also significantly contributed to improving the health of rural Australians, especially Indigenous Australians. Her Q1 journal publication ‘Common mental disorders among Indigenous people living in regional, remote and metropolitan Australia: a cross-sectional study’(BMJ Op …
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Thalamic ventral intermediate nucleus deep brain stimulation for orthostatic tremor… Deep Brain Stimulation… of events, presence of a structural brain pathology, mental health history, lactate levels and…
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striatal function and can be conducted in both humans and rodents. Even simple decisions require a… interested in dopaminergic/glutamatergic dysfunction in the associative striatum and how it affects… The effects of low maternal vitamin D on brain dopamine… that are reliant on brain areas and networks that are implicated in psychosis. My work aims… Developmental vitamin D (DVD) deficiency alters brain development and behaviour in the rat. The aim…
Cognitive and decision-making problems associated with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia are considered the largest burden for these individuals. They also predict poor functional outcomes, such as maintaining work, social networks, and independent living. I am particularly interested in the re …