The Victorian Premier,Jeff Kennett proposed a National Institute of Depression while the NSW Premier, Bob Carr, would prefer to see a broader National Institute for Mental Health. The Victorian Premier,Jeff Kennett proposed a National Institute of Depression while the NSW Premier, Bob Carr, would prefer to see a broader National Institute for Mental Health. SANE Australia has just completed a national survey of services for older Australians with a mental illness. SANE Australia has just completed a national survey of services for older Australians with a mental illness. A French researcher and his team have studied the pattern of autism in the population of Languedoc in France.
Most people believe that the full moon influences violence and aggression in psychiatric settings.
An Australian study which was published last year came to the conclusion that there is no phase of the moon which influences violent or aggressive behaviour. One of the United States' leading drug researchers talks about the fundamental nature of addiction. New work from the U.S. brings us more understanding into the genetics of schizophrenia and may perhaps guide new drug development. This is an extraordinary story of a psychiatrist whose fraudulent activities have gone from Melbourne to Canada to India and back to Melbourne. It involves non-existent universities, dead professors who write letters and the Nobel Peace Prize.