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Mental disorders

August

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry Michael Kassiou.

Winning strategy: Love hormone research bears multimillion-dollar deal

Comment provided by the joint winners of the Research Commercialisation award, the University of Sydney and UNSW.

  • Michael Kassiou and Guan Heng Yeoh

July

Biden fully functional in friendly territory of Michigan on Friday,

Why Biden may be unable to admit he could have a problem

Sometimes when people have a cognitive deficit, they may not have enough insight into their condition to acknowledge it.

  • Jill Margo

May

Martha (Jessica Gunning) is a relationship seeker.

The five types of stalker – a clinical psychologist explains

“Baby Reindeer” accurately portrays the relentless intrusion into another person’s life and the damage it causes to the victims and the people around them.

  • Dr Alan Underwood
“Thanks to Dr Google, everybody thinks they’ve got ADHD,” says the ADHD Foundation’s Christopher Ouizeman.

Is it time to stop talking about mental illness?

I believe many young people are being encouraged to frame normal experiences as psychiatric conditions. There are even financial motivations.

  • Peter Quarry

October 2022

Ritalin is among the medications prescribed to treat ADHD.

Time to pay attention to the attention deficit economy

ADHD is for real. But when information is unlimited and attention can’t keep up, too many people are demanding to be diagnosed.

  • Tanveer Ahmed
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March 2022

Bruce Willis attends the Motherless Brooklyn premiere in 2019.

Bruce Willis to retire from acting because of cognitive disease

The star of the Die Hard franchise and dozens of other action movies has been diagnosed with aphasia.

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  • Reuters

February 2022

Psychiatry in Australia has fewer critics than in the UK.

Why psychiatry in Australia needs to take a good, hard look at itself

Psychiatrists in the UK are divided about the profession’s direction, but that’s not the case here.

  • Theo Chapman

Are you mentally ill, or just very unhappy?

As rates of diagnosis rise, a fierce debate rages in psychiatry. Are you experiencing a parallel pandemic, or having a rational response to a traumatic world?

  • Sophie McBain

April 2021

The science behind the voices in your head

Hearing voices in your head is not always a symptom of mental illness.

  • Tanveer Ahmed

November 2020

Improving the ability of community members, including other young people, to detect and respond to people at risk of self-harm in others is critical.

More than a third of young people share distress prior to suicide

A new study uncovers the gaps in services which, if closed, could assist in preventing youth suicide.

  • Jill Margo

September 2020

Psychedelic drugs could well become the next big medical investment theme.

Investors pile in on psychedelic drugs

After years on the outer, psychedelic drugs are making a comeback as a legitimate treatment for patients with mental illness - and investors are taking notice.

  • Jill Margo

October 2019

Illustration: Matt Davidson

Mental illness shortens life by 10 years for men

Mental disorders can lead to cutting a decade off a man's life and reducing a woman's life expectancy by seven years, a new study shows.

  • Jill Margo
Tania de Jong and Peter Hunt.

Banker's magic mushroom experiment pays off

Peter Hunt, the former chairman of Greenhill, flew to the Netherlands to take psilocybin. He says "it was like pushing a reset button" on his brain. With partner Tania de Jong, they are funding the use of psychedelics to treat mental illness.

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  • Jill Margo

July 2019

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Lessons from Britain's king of spin

Tony Blair's chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell is coming to Australia to pull back the blinds on mental health.

  • Hans van Leeuwen

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