Consultant Psychiatrist and Head of Mood Disorders Research at Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne
I am a consultant psychiatrist at Orygen Youth Health, where I lead the clinical and research program in youth depression. I lead a clinical team of psychiatrists, psychologists, and other allied health professionals in the Youth Mood Clinic, where we assess and manage young people with severe and complex mood disorders. My research interests include studying effective treatments for depression, and using neuroimaging to better understand depression and its treatment.
We need to better detect depression but that shouldn't mean more medication
May 23, 2016 00:21 am UTC| Health
About 4% of Australians have suffered from depression in the past 12 months, but half of them have not had it diagnosed. They may not have recognised it, may have feared the stigma of mental ill health, or had a sense of...
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