A Dimensional-spectrum Model Of Mental Disorders: Developing New Assessments To Improve The Diagnostic Validity Of Multiple Mental Disorders
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$311,860.00
Summary
Advances in the scientific literature have highlighted that significant improvements to validity and clinical utility can be made through the use of a dimensional-spectrum model of psychopathology. To encourage the future use of the dimensional-spectrum model, the current research project aims to develop and test an innovative and novel assessment tool for diagnosing mental disorders in community and clinical populations using a dimensional-spectrum model as the guiding theoretical framework.
Clinical Features, Neurophysiology And Histopathology Of Peripheral Neuropathy In Children With Mitochondrial Disease
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$56,200.00
Summary
Peripheral neuropathies are frequently associated with mitochondrial diseases in children and cause progressive weakness and gait abnormalities and could result in loss of ambulation. This study aims to characterise the clinical spectrum and range of electrophysiological and histopathological abnormalities in the peripheral nerves of children with mitochondrial neuropathies to provide a resource that enables early diagnosis and implementation of rehabilitative measures.
Creating An Empirically Based Classification System For Mental Illness
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$645,205.00
Summary
Mental disorders are typically diagnosed using a set of strictly agreed diagnostic criteria. For example, in the DSM-5 a major depression diagnosis requires at least five of nine symptom criteria to be met. However, the DSM-5 is now widely agreed to have important limitations for the work of researchers and clinicians. My research will overcome those limitations by completing a data-driven classification system based on the patterns in the ways people experience symptoms of mental illness.
This project aims to establish agreement on appropriate methods to analyse evidence in support of medical treatments directed at laboratory tests (such as blood cholesterol) and to classify the evidence according to how convincing it is. The goal of those developing new drugs targeting one of these laboratory tests is to have their evidence sufficiently convincing that the drug will be approved for sale and used because doctors and patients believe its use will translate into a patient benefit.
A Multi-site Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing The Severity Of Constipation Symptoms Experienced By Palliative Care Patients Receiving Usual Care Compared To Those Diagnosed And Managed According To The Underlying Pathophysiology.
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$498,795.00
Summary
This research aims to consider whether the problems of constipation in palliative care are less severe when the physical changes that underlie the problem are explored.