The idea that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain is more than half a century old. The reality is more complex.
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This is not just a bit of nausea and vomiting – it’s a debilitating condition with serious health effects.
Young women are disproportionately affected by multiple sclerosis, a disease where the body attacks the brain, scrambling communication to the rest of the body. Here’s what we know about the causes.
Genes, drugs in early life, and stress have been linked to the development of schizophrenia.
More kids these days have asthma, and more people in the Western world, so do we know what causes it in the first place?
Spoiler: there’s a lot more that we don’t know about what causes chronic fatigue.
There is usually no one factor that causes breast cancer. It’s likely a combination of the effects of a person’s risks combined with an element of bad luck.
SIDS is diagnosed when no other cause of death is found, but SIDS infants do have some characteristics in common.
Some depression is caused by environmental factors, and some is biological.
While research for a cure for MND is underway, first we need to know what causes it.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, but treatments are still far from successful in clinical trials. Here is what we know about the disease, and what is yet to be uncovered.
Parkinson’s disease is the second-most-prevalent neurodegenerative condition in Australia, with an estimated 70,000 living with the disease. But what do we know about the causes and risk factors?
One of the great and enduring mysteries of autism is what causes the brain to develop so differently.
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Associate Professor, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University
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PhD candidate in Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Biomedicine, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor, Respiratory Immunology, QIMR Berghofer
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Deputy Head, Health and Social Care Unit Monash University, NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow, Associate Professor, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Professor of Breast Cancer Research, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Biomedical Sciences,, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Fellow, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Scientia Professor of Psychiatry, UNSW
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Professor, Neurologist and Clinical Director, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Research Fellow, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Medical Science, Adelaide University
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