From increasing our brain’s resilience to stress to possible novel immunotherapy treatments for depression, Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) scientists continue to lead the way in mental health advances.
In Australia, one in five people experiences mental health symptoms every year. Mental health research is a critical area of discovery that QBI researchers are focussed on and each year QBI hosts a mental health webinar, during Mental health Week, to discuss important topics related to mental health research.
A panel of QBI experts explored the neuroscience of depression, its impact on society, and how research can help pave a successful path into the future at our webinar 'Understanding the brain to treat depression'.
Join Queensland Brain Institute researchers as they discuss what is happening in the brains of people with depression, why medications don’t work for some people and alternative treatments for people with depression that don’t respond to medication.
A recent study of 5.9 million Danish individuals has provided the largest and most comprehensive study of comorbidity - the development of 2 or more mental disorders - to date.
The biggest study of its kind has allowed researchers to identify genetic risk factors associated with major depression, providing new insights for prevention and treatment.
