Projects

Each tile includes a summary and discussion of the aims of current research projects at NeuRA.

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Determinants of risk and resilience in multi-agency administrative records: A population record-linkage study.

ASSOC PROF MELISSA GREEN, PROF VAUGHAN CARR, DR KRISTIN LAURENS, KIMBERLIE DEAN

Embedded within the NSW Child Development Study, this project aims to determine dynamic ‘risk’ and ‘resilience’ states in maltreated children at ages 5 and 11 years, and the likelihood of transition between these states over time, in the context of other risk and protective factors.

Identifying new targets for primary school mental health interventions using population data

DR KRISTIN LAURENS, PROF VAUGHAN CARR, ASSOC PROF MELISSA GREEN, KIMBERLIE DEAN

Embedded within the NSW-CDS, this project evaluates the extent to which existing school-based mental health promotion and early intervention programs modify the expression of risk profiles for psychotic, mood, and behavioural disorders in middle childhood at an individual and population level.

Imaging Genetics in Psychosis Study

ASSOC PROF MELISSA GREEN

The Imaging-Genetics in Psychosis study aims to determine common stress-related pathology among schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients, in association with shared genetic vulnerabilities, cognitive deficits, and brain phenotypes.

Epistatic genetic effects on brain structure in schizophrenia

ASSOC PROF MELISSA GREEN, DR KRISTIN LAURENS, PROF VAUGHAN CARR

This project uses data from the Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank to determine interactive genetic effects on brain structure and cognition in schizophrenia.

Latent profiles of child psychopathology and mental health disorder in adolescence: A prospective population-based record linkage study

STACY TZOUMAKIS

Embedded within the NSW Child Development Study, this project will provide critical information for the identification of timely targets for preventive intervention early in the course of mental illness.

NSW Child Development Study

PROF VAUGHAN CARR, ASSOC PROF MELISSA GREEN, DR KRISTIN LAURENS

This project established the NSW-CDS and aims to identify vulnerability and resilience factors emerging from birth to 11 years of age, that relate to the development of mental illness and other adverse outcomes in adolescence and adulthood.

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