All posts tagged "Mental health"

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  Medicine

  Youth mental health platform in development

  A digital mental health platform to assist young people with anxiety, depression, substance abuse and sleep problems will be developed with funding...

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  Research

  Global burden of mental health in conflict settings

  People living in countries that have experienced armed conflict are five times more likely to develop anxiety or depression, a University of...

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  Who's Who

  Mental health leader and women’s advocate recognised with Queen’s Birthday Honour

  A fierce advocate of women’s health who is also a migrant, mother and former marathon runner, Professor Jayashri Kulkarni AM, Director of...

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  Technology

  Prescribing a robot ‘intervention’

  As our world struggles with mental health and substance use disorders affecting 970 million people and counting (according to 2017 figures), the...

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  Research

  Adolescent self-harmers misjudge bodily sensations

  Adolescents who self-harm experience heightened sensations across their skin and misjudge bodily cues such as hunger and headaches, University of Queensland-led research...

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  Research

  Your skin could hold the answer to your mental health

  Tiny changes on the surface of your skin may be the answer to early identification of stress, anxiety and depression before symptoms...

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  Research

  Mum’s the word when it comes to compassion

  A clinical psychologist who personally experienced ‘mum-shaming’ is leading a study aimed at addressing the effects of self-criticism among new mothers.

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  Research

  Study shows exercising for appearance’s sake a blow to body image

  Warmer weather brings attention to sculpting the perfect ‘beach body’, but recent Deakin University research shows that if people exercise to improve...

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  Multi-million dollar research project to target adolescent mental health

  University of Queensland researchers have partnered with institutes in Kenya, Indonesia and Vietnam to investigate the prevalence of mental disorders in adolescents.

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  Medicine

  Researchers identify brain changes in schizophrenia patients

  Researchers have unlocked details revealing how brains change in people with schizophrenia and evidence suggesting that in the early stages of the...