March 3, 2017

Time to read: 5 minutes

There are multiple theories for major depressive disorder (MDD) with no single mechanism likely to be responsible. This is because ther...

 Dr. Mark Sanbrook

February 23, 2017

Time to read: 5 minutes

A number of recent articles have commented about the mental health of doctors, often after a colleague known to them dies by suicide. I was able to atte...

 Dr Sanil Rege, Dr James Graham

January 18, 2017

Time to read: 5 minutes

Stress is a physiological response to a stressor that threatens an individual’s internal physiological state or psychological wellbeing. Life is criti...

If we are wanting to think about prevention we need to be really thinking about these early time periods...

Professor Michael Berk is currently an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and is Alfred Deakin Chair of Psychiatry at Deakin University and Barwon H...

 Dr Sanil Rege

November 13, 2016

Time to read: 5 minutes

The ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’ was first reported in 1963 when widowers became depressed after spousal bereavement and subsequently had a high risk of ...

 Dr Sanil Rege

September 11, 2016

Time to read: 5 minutes

Jane Doe, a 48-year-old accountant with a 30-year history of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) mainly related to checking behaviour, presents with a w...

Prof. Hopwood is the Ramsay Health Care Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. His research areas of interest include psychopharmacolog...

 Dr Sanil Rege, Dr James Graham

July 15, 2016

Time to read: 6 minutes

Unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) affects approximately 350 million people worldwide with almost one-third of patients not responding to existing...

Associate Professor Felice Jacka has an ongoing research program that focuses on lifestyle as a risk factor for common mental health disorders, depressi...