Testing And Delivering Early Interventions For Young People With Depression
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$883,375.00
Summary
This research is focused on testing new strategies to identify and treat severe forms of anxiety, depression and emerging bipolar disorder in teenagers and young adults. It works with ongoing data from over 4,000 young people seen at the Brain & Mind Research Institute and new youth services and other national data sets. It proposes that disturbances of the body clock underpin some major mood disorders and evaluates new behavioural and medical strategies designed that target the clock.
Biological Sensitivity To Context: Risk And Resilience For Adolescent Depression
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$408,388.00
Summary
Depression is among the leading causes of disability and disease burden throughout the world. Little is known about how biological and environmental factors interact to cause adolescent depression; even less is known about what factors might help to prevent it. This project aims to investigate how the brain and the environment interact to predict risk and resilience for depression in adolescence. This research will ultimately help in the detection and treatment of adolescent depression.