Mental Illness 2010
8 MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH GRANTS – $367,850
Dr Eoin Killackey
Co Investigators: Professor Henry Jackson & Dr Sue Cotton
Orygen Research Centre/University of Melbourne, Vic
Amount Awarded: $59,771
Vocational recovery in young people with first episode psychosis: A randomised controlled intervention trial examining vocational, health, economic and social outcomes
Professor Frank Deane
Co Investigators: Dr Angela White & Dr Trevor Crowe
University of Wollongong, NSW
Amount Awarded: $58,085
Family Connections: A randomised controlled trial of correspondence-based support for families of individuals recently diagnosed with psychosis
Dr Pamela Marsh
Co Investigators: Dr Robyn Langdon & Professor Max Coltheart
Macquarie University, NSW
Amount Awarded: $43,617
Remediation of mental-state reasoning and emotion recognition in schizophrenia: Theoretical and clinical implications
Dr Nickolai Titov
Co Investigators: Professor Gavin Andrews & Dr Alison Mahoney
CRUfAD (Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression)/University of NSW
Amount Awarded: $36,750
Internet based education for generalised anxiety disorder: A radomised controlled trial
A/Professor Lina Ricciardelli
Co Investigators: Professor Marita McCabe & Dr Helen Skouteris
Deakin University, VIC
Amount Awarded: $58,260
An early intervention for mental health problems among children: Comparisons,Openness,Peers and Esteem (COPE)
Mental Health Research Institute, VIC
Amount Awarded: $51,696
The Efficacy of N-acetylcysteine as an adjunctive treatment in Unipolar Depression: A double-blind, radomised, placebo-controlled trial
Dr Eugen Mattes
Co Investigators: Professor Martha Hickey, Professor Ian McKeague & Professor Ezra Susser
University of Western Australia
Amount Awarded: $46,571
Prenatal androgen exposure and its influence on mental health in children and adolescents
Dr Nicola Spurrier
Co Investigators: Dr Michael Gradisar, Dr Anne Sved-Williams & Ms Kate Jackson
Flinders University, SA
Amount Awarded: $13,100
Mental Health outcomes of infants enrolled in a randomised controlled sleep intervention trial
2 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS - $150,000
Royce Abbey Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr Elizabeth Scarr
University of Melbourne, Mental Health Research Institute, VIC
Amount Awarded: $75,000
Biochemical basis of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.
Geoffrey Betts Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr Amanda Gabrielle
Murdoch Children's Research Institute, VIC
Amount Awarded: $75,000
Determinants of poor psychological outcome of fetal antiepileptic drug exposure.