Addressing Therapeutic Challenges In Sleep Disorders
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$851,980.00
Summary
The aim of this fellowship is to improve the health and well-being of Australians by reducing the burden of sleep and disorders that disrupt the body clock such as shift work. My program will involve different fields of research combining their efforts together to understand more about sleep apnea and insomnia, the two most common sleep disorders. By this strategy, better treatment for sleep disorders will be found with particular impact on our aging population
Testing And Delivering Early Interventions For Young People With Depression
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$883,375.00
Summary
This research is focused on testing new strategies to identify and treat severe forms of anxiety, depression and emerging bipolar disorder in teenagers and young adults. It works with ongoing data from over 4,000 young people seen at the Brain & Mind Research Institute and new youth services and other national data sets. It proposes that disturbances of the body clock underpin some major mood disorders and evaluates new behavioural and medical strategies designed that target the clock.
Ascending Neural Networks And Behavioural State Control
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$727,758.00
Summary
Our research aims to describe and understand newly identified nerve pathways or 'networks' in brain that control physiological homeostasis or balance and complex behaviours, including levels of arousal and motivation, sleep/wake patterns, learning and memory, and emotions such as fear and anxiety