Can mental healthcare be automated?
As medical experts scramble to manage demand, how effective are digital interventions?
Depression is predicted to become the leading global cause of loss of life years due to illness by 2030, yet fewer th...
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Disordered diagnosis: the problem with establishing – or excluding – a mental health condition
For all its sophistication in finding and treating physiological ailments, modern medicine is sti...
For depression, anxiety, or one of the many other mental health illnesses in the DSM – the Diagnostic and Statistical...
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Insights into self-harm and suicide in Australia
Report reveals the causes and cost of suicide and self-harm.
This article contains information some readers may find distressing as it refers to data about suicide and self-harm,...
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Will Australia climb aboard the Merry Pranksters’ psychedelic bus?
The results are pending on the latest effort to have psilocybin and MDMA approved for medical use...
Whether Australia’s drug regulator remains among the constipated bourgeoisie or ascends to enlightenment hinges on it...
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R U OK? Understanding mental health in a global pandemic
Statistics tell the story of human struggle during lockdowns.
Today is R U OK? Day, an annual moment to reflect on mental-health harm prevention through the simple act of reaching...
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John Cade takes a chill pill
Australian scientist led the way in establishing lithium’s mood-stabilising powers.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared 10 October to be World Mental Health Day, with an aim “to raise awar...
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Listen up: the sound of science
Can how we speak reflect changes in our mental health? Can ambient sound bring order to loved one...
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Listen up: the sound of science
Can how we speak reflect changes in our mental health? Can ambient sound bring order to loved one...
Worried about an aging relative with dementia, or a friend suffering from mental illness? New help may be on its way ...
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Health benefits from natural sounds
Our sounds harm ecological communication, but do their sounds help us?
Adding to the myriad benefits bestowed by nature, scientists report that natural sounds alone – such as waterfalls an...
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Quick saviour?
Ketamine shows signs of reducing the desire to suicide.
Ketamine has a wild reputation. It’s used as party drug thanks to its hallucinogenic effect, but it’s also widely use...
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Marijuana: Toking takes toll
Whether you start earlier or later, smoking marijuana is unlikely to be a winning move.
More bad news for pot tokers: a study led by the University of Queensland (UQ) has found that regular marijuana use h...
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ASD and suicide risk
Tailoring prevention for the neurodivergent.
A nation-wide study of people aged 10 years and over diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Denmark has lin...