Despite advances in neuroscience, the underlying biology of mental illness has remained elusive. The DSM-6 will attempt to integrate neurobiology into how clinicians diagnose and treat psychiatric conditions.
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Trauma is everywhere in mainstream vocabulary and online, but its meaning has never been hazier. Has the concept been de-stigmatised or diluted? And does it matter?
Every autistic child has individual strengths and needs. New research investigates how a category of ‘profound autism’ could impact their diagnosis and supports.
Autism expert Andrew Whitehouse speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how the diagnosis of autism has shifted since the 1990s and what’s that meant for autistic people.
Psychiatry has been used to enforce political conformity – and not just in authoritarian regimes.
Autism and ADHD frequently overlap and the combination can create internal conflict and unmet needs.
Cognitive disengagement syndrome may be as common as ADHD, but it is vastly under-recognised.
We’re getting better at early identification and adult diagnosis has contributed to NDIS numbers. But functional impairment is likely to be given greater emphasis in the NDIS reboot.
Developmental delay is viewed clinically as a temporary state where children are slower to develop than expected. It is most often used for children under five.
Humans have attempted to understand and treat mental illness for centuries – from ancient Greek medicine, Middle Ages exorcisms and the rise of asylums, to modern medical breakthroughs.
Why was Susanna Kaysen really hospitalised? Her memoir Girl, Interrupted turns 30 this year. It investigates whether she was ‘mad’, or medicalised for a ‘chaotic’ life that defied gender norms.
After an outcry on social media over its requirement that writers provide a medical diagnosis, Black Inc. has put on hold a planned anthology: Growing up Neurodivergent in Australia.
A lucid, demanding book on the psychology and neurobiology of trauma has become a publishing phenomenon. It resonates, writes Nick Haslam, with an age in which people are seeing trauma everywhere.
It’s been 25 years since autism was redefined and the surge in diagnoses and research began. But while we’ve come along way in our understanding of the spectrum, advances in drug therapies has lagged.
It seems like an easy question, until you take a closer look. Then things get messy.
One in ten cannabis users are dependent on the drug, according to some estimates.
Mental health trauma has always been a part of war. Treatments have come a long way over the last century, but we still don’t understand why the responses change for different people and times.
Have you ever checked your phone thinking you had felt it vibrate or heard it ring, only to see that no one tried to reach you? One researcher decided to study this phenomenon.
Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Mark Butler told Q&A that eating disorders “are the mental illness type which has the highest mortality rate”. We check the research.
Adult separation anxiety is a relatively new concept. There are, as yet, no published evidence-based treatments for the condition.
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Deputy Director, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Professor of Autism Research, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
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Professor and Personal Chair, Swansea University
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Scientia Professor of Psychiatry, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Xidian University
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Director of Psychological Services, Black Dog Institute; Associate Professor, School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW
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Assistant Professor of Practice, Michigan State University
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Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Duke University
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Professor, School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
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Research Assistant, South Western Sydney Local Health District
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Clinical Senior Lecturer: Lead for Primary Care Education, Aston University
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Senior lecturer, Victoria University
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Professor of Psychological Medicine, King's College London
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Professor of Women's Health Psychology, Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), Western Sydney University