The American Brain Foundation is a national foundation dedicated to the relentless pursuit of early diagnoses, improved treatments, and the discovery of cures for brain diseases and disorders. They invest in research of the whole brain and all neurologic disorders knowing they are interconnected. The American Brain Foundation has a unique research partnership with the American Academy of Neurology. This gives the Foundation access to the best and brightest minds to source the most high-risk and high-reward research cutting across various diseases of the brain.

The American Brain Foundation was founded to bring researchers and donors together to cure brain diseases and disorders. For almost 30 years, they have funded research across a broad spectrum of brain and nervous system diseases and disorders in the pursuit of improved treatments, prevention, and cures. The American Brain Foundation focus on the full spectrum of brain diseases and disorders because we believe that when we cure one disease, we will cure many. 

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The American Brain Foundation’s Cure One, Cure Many Award

The American Brain Foundation’s Cure One, Cure Many Award

The American Brain Foundation’s Cure One, Cure Many Award seeks to attract the best minds in brain disease research to advance research that addresses key knowledge gaps that cut across brain diseases. The award brings together funders to advance progress on large-scale, cross-cutting research topics.

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The American Brain Foundation’s Next Generation Research Grants

The American Brain Foundation’s Next Generation Research Grants

The American Brain Foundation’s Next Generation Research Grants fund and support innovative investigations by the best and brightest early-career researchers. Funding research across a broad spectrum of the brain is our best hope for finding better treatments, prevention, and cures for brain diseases and disorders. With the support of our donors, we’re helping to launch long-term careers for the next generation of clinical neuroscience researchers so that one day we can all enjoy life without brain disease.

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Address: American Brain Foundation 201 Chicago Ave Minneapolis, MN 55415

Country: United States of America

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The American Mental Health Foundation (AMHF) is a research organization that advocates for improving the quality of treatment, developing more effective methods of research and making professional treatment available to lower-wage individuals. The object of this Association is to promote, advance, promulgate, perform or carry out, enter into, cultivate, establish and organize scientific research and studies in the field of mental health, psychology, psychoanalysis and related domains; organize work groups and seminars for staff members to engage in other educational work; and publishing books under the imprint of American Mental Health Foundation Books.

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Address: 128 2 Pl Brooklyn New York 11231-4102

Postal Address: Box 3 Riverdale New York 10471-0003

Email: elomke@americanmentalhealthfoundation.org

Call 212 737 9027

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The Australian Neuroscience Society is a non-profit organisation of scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system and are actively involved in research and teaching. The primary objective of the Society shall be the advancement of the neurosciences by facilitating the dissemination of information pertaining to neuroscience, in teaching and research, by conducting meetings, seminars and lectures at local and national levels. They aim to clarify the actions of the nervous system and how diseases of the nervous system can be treated. This may take the form of presenting novel data at workshops and / or the publishing of novel data generated by members of the Society.

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The Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine (ASBHM) is a volunteer-run organisation. It is established as one of the national societies constituting the International Society of Behavioral Medicine (ISBM).The scope of behavioural health and medicine extends from research efforts to understand basic brain-body mechanism interactions; explorations of clinical diagnoses, the development, conduct and evaluation of interventions; to undertaking public health disease-prevention and health-promotion strategies. The ASBHM supports this definition, and aims to serve the needs of all health-related disciplines concerned with the integration of behavioural and biomedical sciences.ASBHM brings together researchers and practitioners in disciplines as diverse as psychology, sports science, public health, dietetics, medicine and nursing, where everyone is working towards the same aim to enhance health outcomes through behaviour change.

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CREATE is a network of early career researchers. Every year we organise interactive workshops prior to the EHPS conference. Prominent experts within the field of health psychology are invited to lead these workshops, with an overall aim of enhancing the knowledge and skills of participants. In addition, CREATE organises the Meet the Expert sessions, where researchers can connect with experts in their field.

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Promoting Research Opportunities, Mentoring and Innovations for Students and Early Career Members (PROMISE) is a group that was developed through ASBHM, where the executive committee felt it was important to support, help and guide Early Career and Postgraduate contingent that are members of ASBHM.PROMISE stands for. The main aim of PROMISE is to promote research opportunities, mentoring and education for students and early career members, throughout Australasia, who have an interest in behavioural health and medicine, specifically by:

• Organising subsidised workshops on topics of interest at the ASBHM annual conference.
• Organising a free mentoring session with experienced researchers at the ASBHM annual conference.
• Organising a fun social activity at the ASBHM conference, which will give all PROMISE members an opportunity to meet others and identify common research interests.
• Notifying members of other workshops and events (outside of the ASBHM conference) that could be of value for their career development.
• Notifying members of job opportunities for early career researchers.

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Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

ASBHM is considering the introduction of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to provide forums for ASBHM members who have a shared interest in a particular topic. Potential SIGs could include areas such as translation and implementation research, disease prevention and health promotion, disease management and treatment, cancer, women’s health, physical activity and nutrition, etc. We are open to any suggestions for potential SIG areas. If SIGs are formed, the activities of the SIGs will be determined by the individual SIG members and leadership. To give you an idea of the potential benefits, these activities could include:

• Regular meetings/discussions
• Presentations/webinars
• Newsletters
• Mentoring arrangements for ECRs
• Sharing of data and relevant publications
• Writing joint publications or position statements
• Preparation/submission of symposia for conferences etc.

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The Belgian Brain Council is a national organization that provides a unique and multidisciplinary platform to unite scientific organizations of neuroscientists, psychiatrists and research workers, patients' associations and pharmaceutical companies. The Belgian Brain Council wants to improve the treatment for persons with neurological and psychiatric diseases, make people more aware of this subject, stimulate research and exchange between the different disciplines and associations, and lobbying at the government for enhancing the reimbursement of research and treatments. 

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The Belgian Society for Neuroscience promotes neuroscience research and education in Belgium, organises a national congress and awards a travel grant to PhD students attendees to the FENS Forum.

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The Black Dog Institute is a not-for-profit facility for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mood disorders such as depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. It was founded in 2002 by the UNSW School of Psychiatry Scientia Professor Gordon Parker and is based in Sydney, Australia.

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The Black Dog Institute is a medical research institute and a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to improving the lives of people affected by poor mental health. It aims to develop and disseminate the knowledge needed to understand, prevent and treat the significant mental health challenges facing the world. They aim to significantly reduce the incidence of mental illness and suicide, remove the stigma and empower all people to live the most mental healthy life possible. 

The Black Dog Institute is a pioneer in the identification, prevention and treatment of mental illnesses and the promotion of wellbeing.It aims to rapidly translate high quality research into improved clinical treatments, increased accessibility to mental health services and delivery of long-term public health solutions. It incorporates clinical services with cutting-edge research, health professional training and community education programs. 

• Bipolar Disorder Clinic
• Depression Clinic
• Psychology Clinic
• Adolescent Clinic
• Sydney Neurostimulation Centre
• eMHPrac
• Research
• Organisational Programs
• Consultancy Services
• Public Workplace Mental Health Workshops
• Research and Policy
• Community Programs
• Health Professionals
• School Resources
• My Compass
• Blackdog Support Groups
• REACH
• Black Dog Snapshot
• Sleep Healthy Using the Internet (SHUTI)
• Digital Dog
• Suicide Prevention
• Mood Assessment Program (MAP)
• Youth Health Professionals
• The Psychological Toolkit
• Quick Bytes

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Address: Hospital Road Prince of Wales Hospital Randwick NSW 2031

Call 02 9382 4530

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Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation is Australia’s only dedicated mental health research foundation. They support ground breaking research that will help to transform the lives of those affected by mental health issues. 

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Address: Level 6 121 King William Street, Adelaide SA 5000

Country: Australia

Email: info@breakthroughfoundation.org.au

Call +61 8 8236 8801

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The Centre and Discipline of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy conducts, fosters and supports research in child and adolescent mental health.  The research aims to inform teaching in order to allow world-class education in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. This researched is linked to many clinical services. There are a number of streams of research including:

• Neuropsychopharmacology stream: a team looking at novel options for treatment for patients with psychiatric disorders to predict responses to psychopharmacological treatments (such as antidepressants). 
• Neurophysiology stream: a team looking at neurophysiological aspects of brain function in patients with psychiatric disorders. 
• Developmental Psychopathology stream: a team looking at various aspects of neuropsychiatric disorders (such as psychological, biological and social factors), and how these relate to development of young people. Clinical areas of interest include:

1. Eating disorders: the pathophysiology and neurobiology of eating disorders ( such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa). At the Centre and Discipline of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry there is a particular interest in the hormone leptin and how it impacts the physiological regulation of satiety and hunger.
2. Emotion regulation – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) a study of the changes in the ability to regulate emotions and feelings in patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). 
3. Aggressive behaviour, impulsivity and conduct disorders: the neurobiological and psychological mechanisms involved in aggressive and impulsive behaviours are of particular interest. Members of the department are part of the large so-called FemNAT-CD research project funded by the European Union (EU).
4. Gender Diversity: team members working on research projects related to different aspects of Gender Diversity, with a focus on medical, psychological and social needs.

The Centre and Discipline of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy has been established between the School of Paediatrics and Child Health and the School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.It provides leadership in the field of Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Western Australia. It is the aim to also have research to inform teaching in this particular area in order to allow world-class education in Child and Adolescent Mental Health for UWA students. Team members provide clinical work within the following sites:

• Acute Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (inpatients)
• Acute Response Team (ART)
• Acute Community Intervention Team (ACIT)
• Consultation-Liaison Services (C&L)
• Pathways Clinic
• Complex ADHD Services (CADHS)
• Eating Disorders Program (EDP)
• Early Intervention Psychosis Service (EIPS)
• Gender Diversity Service (GDS)
• Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
• Multi-systemic Therapy Program (MST)

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Address: The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley, Perth Western Australia 6009

Email: florian.zepf@uwa.edu.au

Call +61 8 9340 8176

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The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. As one of the world's leading research centres in the area of addiction and mental health. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues. CAMH works with the government to help shape the public policy and resource development process to ensure it promotes health and works towards eliminating the stigma associated with mental illness and addiction.

As a teaching hospital, CAMH provides education, training, internships and residencies for students. People training to work in the health care field, including psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and laboratory technologists, come to CAMH for practical experience. CAMH is committed to providing comprehensive, well-coordinated, accessible care for people who have problems with mental illness and addictions. A wide range of clinical programs, support and rehabilitation services are provided that meet the diverse needs of people who are at risk and are at different stages of their lives and illnesses. Services include:

• Assessment
• Brief early intervention
• Residential programs
• Day treatment
• Continuing care and
• Family support.

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Address: 1001 Queen Street West 30, 40, 50 and 60 White Squirrel Way 100 and 101 Stokes Street 80 Workman Way Toronto, Ontario

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The Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry conducts research which aims to discover the neurobiological, psychological and social risk factors contributing to severe mental disorders (such as schizophrenia and related disorders). The goal of CCRN is to translate this research evidence into early detection, and improved treatment and services. The research interests of CCRN are genetic studies of schizophrenia, translational research, cognitive-perceptual mechanisms of symptoms, language and communication, social cognition and functioning and schizotypal personality traits. Studies held at CCRN include:

• The Western Australian Family Study of Schizophrenia (WAFSS):  a multi-domain assessment of individuals and families (including neurocognitive and neurological tests, personality traits, brain electrical activity, saccadic eye-movements and DNA sampling together with each individual’s history and symptoms). The research aims to identify genetic and cognitive variations that increase the risk for schizophrenia, which will help to guide the development of more personalized approaches to treatment. It aims is to conduct research that will capture this wealth of individual differences in schizphrenia
• Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Research Unit (NERU): research conducted on aetiology, course and outcome in severe mental illness. It has a record-linked register-based research and clinical studies and large scale epidemiological surveys.
• Cognitive Psychology: studies that explore the cognitive and perceptual mechanisms driving symptoms of mental illness; cognitive-perceptual anomalies associated with schizotypal personality traits; visual perceptual ability in autism-spectrum disorders; and the role of social cognition in the risk and resilience to mental illness.
• Loneliness in psychotic disorders and risk for psychosis

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Address: The University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley 6009 Western Australia

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The Centre for Crisis Psychology is a national competence centre that conducts research, teaching and dissemination of serious grief and crisis actions. The Centre has built up its expertise through research, clinical activities and emergency preparedness for people in serious crisis situations.

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Address: Jekteviksbakken 31, 2nd floor 5006 Bergen

Country: Norway

Postal Address: University of Bergen Postbox 7807 5020 Bergen

Email: sfkp@uib.no

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The Swinburne University of Technology Centre for Mental Health investigates the mechanisms involved in severe mental health disorders and ways to improve the lives of people with a severe mental illness.

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Country: Australia

Email: cmh@swinburne.edu.au

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The Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences was established in 2023 to bring together outstanding Swinburne experts spanning research and translation from fundamental cognitive neuroscience through to evidence-based clinical practice.

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Country: Australia

Email: cmhbs@swinburne.edu.au

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Developmental Psychopathology research studies the various aspects of neuropsychiatric disorders (such as psychological, biological and social factors), and how these relate to development of young people. Clinical areas of interest include:

• Eating disorders: a study of the pathophysiology and neurobiology of eating disorders ( such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa)
• Emotion regulation – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) a study of the changes in the ability to regulate emotions and feelings in patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). 
• Aggressive behaviour, impulsivity and conduct disorders: a study of the neurobiological and psychological mechanisms involved in aggressive and impulsive behaviours.
• Gender diversity: research projects related to different aspects of Gender Diversity, particularly a focus on medical, psychological and social needs.

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DIAMOND Consortium is a researfch program that aims to build. capacity in primary mental health care research and evaluation. The diamond consortium is a multidisciplinary team with expertise in complex primary care and mental health research, evaluation and clinical practice. The team developed a comprehensive program of primary care mental health research and increased the research capacity for this work in Victoria. The consortium funding has provided support for the development of a network of primary care depression researchers, the development and conduct of the diamond longitudinal study, presentations, seminars, workshops, international visiting academics, small seeding grants, research higher degree students and peer-reviewed publications related to the diamond study and the consortium.

The consortium successfully established an active network of over 100 researchers with an interest in depression-related research in primary care. The consortium focused on four key activities:

• A Communication strategy: a website was established to provide details on the aims, structure and function of the consortium.  It includes information about research in progress, publications, and future and past events. Consortium newsletters have been circulated widely throughout Australia and internationally, describing the progress of the diamond longitudinal study and related projects, profiling consortium members and their work, highlighting key consortium events and advertising relevant seminars and conferences. Due to the delay in publishing research findings in peer-reviewed journals, the project used radio interviews, articles published in primary care and local newspapers, and presentations at forums, conferences and meetings to disseminate information about the diamond study and other consortium activities. Consortium members’ contributions to state and national policy are summarised in the consortium’s final report.  They include organising seminars and panel discussions, presentations to mental health practitioners and involvement in the development of the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing.
• Research program: the consortium developed and implemented a research program that began with the diamond study pilot.  This enabled the team to refine a cost-effective method for recruiting people attending general practice to a study on depression and emotional well-being. The pilot study provided a research capacity building opportunity for two medical students, and the development of study methods and tools has influenced a number of other research programs.  Two other studies (the DIALOG and Weave studies) have been able to recruit participants via the diamond screening process.  Five research higher degree students are using data collected in the diamond study. The pilot study findings were also used to inform the development of general practice-based models for depression care through the Re-order study. The diamond longitudinal study involves 30 general practices and almost 800 people experiencing depressive symptoms.  Participants agreed to document and map their experiences of depression and the healthcare system over time.  This is the largest prospective observational study of depression care undertaken in Australia.  It has attracted considerable international attention and led to the use of a common set of measures in a number of other studies.
• Seed funding: the funding from beyondblue enabled the consortium to allocate seed funding to support a number of projects related to depression in primary care including screening for depression in elderly district nursing clients, problem-solving approaches to depression in general practicem, management of depression, development, pilot testing and evaluation of an enhanced discharge summary form to improve uptake of ongoing primary health care, women’s attitudes to screening for postnatal depression, the experience of depression after birth and views about primary care services among Persian-speaking women in Melbourne, men’s experience of partner abuse and depression.
• Capacity building: the diamond consortium has built research capacity in primary care mental health by supporting the careers of early career researchers, young researchers and research students.  The consortium also hosted 17 seminars and six workshops on related topics.
• Diamond 10 Year Cohort Study: The Diagnosis, Management and Outcomes of Depression in Primary Care Study (Diamond cohort Study) is a unique resource of 10 years of data collected from  people in the primary care setting.  It was established to explore the course and management of depression in the primary care setting in recognition that most treatment and management of common mental disorders occurs in general practice. Study participants complete annual written surveys and telephone interviews about their symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, medications, health service use, comorbidity, physical health, substance use, the experience of depression and recovery.

The diamond consortium’s activities funded under this project have made a substantial contribution to the coordination and communication of depression-related research activities in Australia, and have assisted with the open exchange of information and sharing of resources. The consortium’s activities have helped map the pathways to and from mental health care for people experiencing depression and identified barriers and facilitators to effective models of primary care mental health.  They have helped to develop and test models of care based on a systems approach, and built research capacity in primary care mental health.

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The European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation is a network of active researchers in the field of Mental Health Service Research and Evaluation. ENMESH aims are to:

• Develop and maintain a network of active researchers in mental health service research in Europe
• Promote the development and dissemination of study designs, research instruments, mental health outcome indicators (including cost measurements), and relevant forms of statistical indicators.
• Function as a clearing house for mental health service evaluation information in Europe.

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The Griffith Centre for Mental Health unifies the work of Griffith University mental health researchers by fostering innovation and multidisciplinary collaboration. Their mental health researchers contribute to some of Australia’s largest nationally funded research projects, including youth mental health, parenting and family interventions, and lived-experience initiatives. For over a decade, Griffith’s mental health research has attracted funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Medical Research Future Fund and the Australian Research Council, as well as Federal and state governments, community and industry partners.

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Address: School of Applied Psychology Griffith University 176 Messines Ridge Road Mt Gravatt QLD 4122

Country: Australia

Email: gcmh@griffith.edu.au

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The Centre of Clinical Research into Neurpsychiatry of the University of Western Australia have created a number of instruments, assessment tools and community resources including:

• Biosamples: the WAFSS Biospecimen Repository is a unique collection of biological samples from schizophrenia patients, controls and their families. It includes DNA from whole blood and/or transformed lymphocytes; transformed and untransformed lymphocytes; protein and RNA extracts from transformed lymphocytes; plasma and serum from whole blood; and whole blood.
• Healthy Babies for Mothers with Serious Mental Illness is case management framework developed for mental health clinicians.
• Diagnostic Interview for Psychosis – Diagnostic module (DIPpc-DM 1.0) is a semi-structured interview consisting of the 97 items of the Operational Criteria For Psychosis (OPCRIT).
• Diagnostic Interview for Psychosis. Complete assessment schedule is the full interview schedules from both Australian National psychosis surveys: The Survey of High Impact Psychosis 2010 (SHIP) and the Low Prevalence (Psychotic) Disorders Study 1997-98 (LPDS). The main domains covered by the 2010 SHIP survey included clinical profile, cognitive profile, social participation and functioning, measures of impairments and disabilities, socio-economic profile; service utilisation, treatment and perceived need for services as well as measures of quality of life. In the development of the national SHIP survey instruments, the primary consideration was to include measures that were reliable; available; cost and time effective and allowed comparison with other collected data.
• Psychosis Screener: identifies individuals likely to meet criteria for formal diagnosis of a psychotic disorder. The Psychosis Screener was originally developed for the Low Prevalence (Psychotic) Disorders Study 1997-98 and further modified for the Survey of High Impact Psychosis 2010. 
• Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool: a cognitive assessment tool developed for the 2010 National SHIP survey to assess cognition and was included in the interview schedule. The two tasks finally selected were National Adult Reading Test (NART) Revised (Nelson and Willison, 1991); and Digit-Symbol Coding Test (DSCT) from the RBANS battery (Randolph et al.).
• Normative Data – Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test is one of the most widely used neuropsychological memory tasks in clinical practice. They have produced normative data for individuals meeting ICD-10 criteria for schizophrenia or schizophrenia-spectrum disorder, for use in clinical settings.

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The Language Program investigate language development in developing children, language processing in adults and children and adults with language disorders (such as specific language impairment and aphasia). Research findings from the Language Program inform our understanding of language at a theoretical level and also provide the basis for more effective diagnosis and treatment of language impairment. Research programs of thje Language Program include:

• Word learning in aphasia: a project that aims to address learning in people with aphasia and in older adults without aphasia. They investigated how well people in these groups could learn to correctly pair new shapes. 

• How we produce plural nouns: a proposal of a new representational framework for the lexical syntax of number in spoken word production. 

• L2 acquisition of English plurals by Mandarin-speaking 3-year-olds: a project that examined whether 3-year-old Mandarin-speaking children who were acquiring English as their second language experience similar challenges in learning plurals. 

• Strategies in the processing of interrogative and declarative rises in Australian English: Implications for first and second language acquisition

• Two negatives don't always make a positive

• Children's inferences: Beyond literal meaning

   

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Address: 16 University Avenue Macquarie University NSW 2109

Email: stephen.crain@mq.edu.au

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The Mental Health Clinical Research Unit (CRU) has an established platform of research projects related to improving treatments and outcomes for those with serious mental health disorders. The Mental Health Clinical Research Unit (CRU) is located in the University of Otago, Christchurch Department of Psychological Medicine at Terrace House. It is a joint unit of the University department and the Specialist Mental Health Division of the Canterbury District Health Board. Staff working on Mental Health Clinical Research Unit (CRU) projects include consultant psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatric and research nurses.

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Address: 2 Riccarton Avenue PO Box 4345 Christchurch 8140

Country: New Zealand

Email: clinical.researchunit@cdhb.health.nz

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Mental health knowledge bank is a website that focuses on assembling research abstracts, academic articles, and guidebooks from all the institutes authorized by Department of Mental Health Thailand and other professional organizations related to mental health and psychiatry field. This website has been created for academic people, practitioners and the others who are interested in mental health knowledge in the way of accessibility more efficiently and conveniently. In the future, this website would be the one source of mental health data bank for South-East Asia or even nation wide countries. Moreover, the is the initiation of becoming ASEAN Economic Community in 2015 which drives all dimensions of development in ASEAN countries including mental health work.

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Mental Health Research Nepal are a group of mental health professionals from Nepal and abroad, who have a passion for research and development of mental health in Nepal. Currently, we are involved in research in Mental Health in Nepal and Clinical practice too.

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Address: Maharajgunj, Kathmandu - 44617

Country: Nepal

Email: rishavk@gmail.com

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The Shanghai Mental Health Center was officially approved as a national center for mental disorders according to the Notice of the National Health Commission on the Establishment of the National Center for Mental Disorders. The National Center for Mental Disorders is committed to serving the national strategic goal of "Health China 2030" to address the four major problems in the mental health services in China, namely the difficulties in treating severe mental disorders, the relatively backward technical means, the unbalanced distribution of service resources and the lack of talent resources. It will carry out the following work:

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Address: XUHUI CAMPUS:NO.600 WANPING NAN ROAD,SHANGHAI,PRC,200030

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Neurophysiology studies the various aspects of brain function in patients with psychiatric disorders. This includes the development of new EEG-neurofeedback related training protocols.

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Neuropsychopharmacology is the study novel options for treatment for patients with psychiatric disorders to predict responses to psychopharmacological treatments (such as antidepressants). Of particular interest is:

• The influence of dietary factors on neurotransmitters and brain function
• Dietary components (such as amino acids) that develop neurotransmitters and
• Changing the availability of neurotransmitters (such as serotonin and dopamine) in young people using different dietary strategies (e.g.new acute tryptophan depletion, acute phenylalanine-tyrosine depletion and combined monoamine depletion protocols). 

Various methods can be combined with behavioural assessments (such as go/no-go tasks) to study impulsivity and other research methods like neuroimaging techniques to study brain areas affected by the neurotransmitter in focus as well as studying relevant neurocircuitries in patients with psychiatric disorders.

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AUT Public Health and Mental Health Research Institute (PHMHRI) comprises five research centres and a number of research programmes. Their mission is to conduct high quality public and mental health research which contributes to the reduction of health disparities, improves the health of New Zealanders, and generates and extends the knowledge we have gathered. Information about each centre and programme is available by following the links to the left of this page. Our centres work collaboratively across research projects, as required, and we have a strong focus on postgraduate study across all centres. They key aims are to

• Develop research programmes that advance understandings of the cultural, economic, social, political and environmental determinants of health
• Inform health policy, purchasing and service delivery, and facilitate evidence-based practice for health professionals
• Widely disseminate findings and facilitate discussion and debate of significant health issues
• Contribute to the development of the public health and mental health research workforce, with particular emphasis on building a representative workforce
• Develop and maintain strong links and collaborative relationships with a range of stakeholders including Māori, Pacific peoples, Asians, migrants, research centres, health provider organisations, professional bodies and other communities

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Address: Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences Auckland University of Technology Private Bag 92006 Auckland 1142

Country: New Zealand

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The Research Into Recover website contains information about the work of the Recovery Research Team at the Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UK.

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Address: Institute of Mental Health University of Nottingham Triumph Road Nottingham, NG7 2TU, UK

Country: United Kingdom

Email: researchintorecovery@nottingham.ac.uk

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Shanghai Center for Mental Disease Control and Prevention is a governmental and municipal-level technical organization specialized in mental disease control and prevention, Under the leadership of Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, it exerts its function in technical guidance and support of community-based severe psychiatric diseases' prevention and rehabilitation, public mental health promotion, psychological crisis intervention, etc. It follows the guideline of “prevention first and prevention & treatment combination”to fight mental disease and support communities and citizens.

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Address: XUHUI CAMPUS:NO.600 WANPING NAN ROAD,SHANGHAI,PRC,200030

Country: China

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The American Brain Coalition (ABC) is a nonprofit organization comprised of the United States’ leading professional neurological, psychological, and psychiatric associations and patient organizations. Together, we seek to advance the understanding of the functions of the brain, and to reduce the burden of brain disorders through public education and advocacy. With an established presence in Washington, DC, ABC is a strong and powerful voice for the 100 million people living with disabling brain disorders, bringing together organizations that represent concerned and interested patients, families, and professionals. This voice is used to advocate for increased support of research that leads to better treatment; services and support that improves patients’ quality of life; as well as a national commitment towards finding cures for individuals with disabling neurological and psychiatric disorders. On behalf of all who live with neurological and psychiatric disorders, we invite organizations that share our concerns and goals to join us in our educational, engagement and advocacy efforts.

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The Early Intervention Network for Mental Health in Young People is the National Early Intervention Network to promote early intervention in mental health problems specifically with children and young people. The focus of the project is the development of a national network involving key people (such as consumers, carers, clinicians, researchers and policy makers) and the development of resource and training manuals to promote best practice in early intervention in mental disorders specifically with children and young people. The network had a Clearinghouse function that aims to link people and gather and disseminate information electronically and via other media. With the assistance of the network the project will promote and enhance the development of early intervention services nationally through identifying and enhancing key service, structural and intersectoral issues and further developing best practice in specific areas. The Clearinghouse also aims to disseminate the outcomes of National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy projects after their completion in early 1999, linking with the Australian Institute of Family Studies who are completing the national stocktake of the projects. The project is divided into three streams:

• Stream One: focus on the development and maintenance of a national communications network and training issues. This includes:

1. The establishment of the national clearinghouse for early intervention in mental health
2. An international literature review
3. A national stocktake of work in this area
4. The development and dissemination of an early intervention newsletter; and
5. The production of resource and training kits on best practice in early intervention generally and with particular disorders experienced by children and young people.

• Stream two: aims to work with a variety of mental health and key intersectoral service providers to re-orient service delivery in this area to an early intervention focus. This will include:

1. A re-orientation consultancy examining the potential in other systems to develop a greater understanding of mental health problems and stronger links with mental health services
2. Clinical project officers working within various systems to identify and address structural and system issues to enable them to be better placed to enhance early intervention for their clients with mental health problems.

• Stream Three: aims to address specific mental health problems requiring further development of best practice in early intervention. This stream will:

1. Include a review that will identify evidence based practice in early intervention
2. Provide support for existing early intervention programs and
3. Develop further best practice models in early intervention for specific disorders.

AusEinet aims to set up a network, an internet site and provide ongoing work on:

• Best practice in mental health around the country and the world
• A national stocktake of Early Intervention programs
• Helpful resources including Internet sites
• Seminars, workshops and training opportunities
• Contacts to spur CAMH workers on to adopt programs from elsewhere and
• Possible avenues of continuing funding

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Email: graham.martin@flinders.edu.au

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The Brain Health Institute is a new scientific research platform of the Shanghai Mental Health Center that offers vital research and innovation support to researchers within and outside the Center who are interested in a platform-oriented scientific approach. The platform can collect basic, clinical and translational research resources and give researchers ready access to a three-in-one system of clinical data support, experimental platform sharing, and innovation and translation promotion. Based on a wealth of clinical resources, the platform can efficiently address patients’ clinical problems and treatment needs by drawing upon evidence-based medical research, basic research exploration, and clinical research verification and transformation.

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Address: XUHUI CAMPUS:NO.600 WANPING NAN ROAD,SHANGHAI,PRC,200030

Country: China

Postal Address: MINGHANG CAMPUS:NO.3210 HUMIN ROAD,SHANGHAI,PRC,201108

Call +8621-64387250

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The Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD) is a joint facility of the University of New South Wales and St Vincents Hospital in Sydney Australia that combines clinical and research expertise in the recognition and treatment of the anxiety and depressive disorders.

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The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use bring together world-leading researchers, clinicians, people with lived experience and community to share skills, synergise data, harness new technologies and trial innovative programs to prevent and treat mental and substance use disorders.

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Country: Australia

Email: matilda.centre@sydney.edu.au

Call 02 8627 9048

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he Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Research Unit (NERU) conducts research on aetiology, course and outcome in severe mental illness. Its two arms of research cover:

1. Whole Population Record-linked register-based research: the psychiatric case register to an extensive network of other electronic State health and social services registers. This includes studies utilising record linkage across whole population- registers, with most incorporating a multigenerational, life course approach

• Life course studies of pathways to psychotic disorders and other severe mental illness
• Environmental and familial risk factors for psychotic illness and other neuropsychiatric outcome: a studyaims to integrate genetic and risk factor epidemiology under a developmental perspective in order to examine reproductive pathology in women with severe mental illness and follow-up proximal and distal developmental and neuropsychiatric sequelae in their children.
• Influenza and season of birth: Environmental risk factors for schizophrenia: exploration of the association between other environmental exposures (e.g. influenza and season of birth) and schizophrenia.
• Intellectual disability and psychotic illness: a series of studies that have reported on the prevalence of intellectual disability in people with schizophrenia and explored the nature of the association between psychotic disorders and intellectual disability.
• Australian perinatal mental health reforms: Evaluating their impact: a study fills a significant gap in the evidence-base on how key Australian perinatal mental health initiatives have met their goals of increasing service utilisation at this critical time for mother, infant and family. It uses population health data to examine the impact of National Perinatal Depression Initiative reforms on maternal health outcomes, service utilisation and the likely cost-effectiveness of these reforms.
• The association between psychotic illness, criminal offending and victimisation: whole-population studies of the prevalence and patterns of criminal offending in schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders; Area of residence and the impact of social disorganisation and urbanicity on offending by people with schizophrenia; and adult victimisation of people with a psychotic illness.

2. Clinical studies and large scale epidemiological surveys: clinical and large-scale surveys of the prevalence of psychotic illness in Australia, and the characteristics of those affected. This includes large scale national epidemiological surveys of people with psychotic illness and longitudinal and cross-sectional clinical studies of mental and physical health outcomes for people with psychotic illness

• Clinical and large-scale epidemiological surveys: an empirical framework for assessing mortality and morbidity in people with psychotic disorders: A 7-year prospective and 10-year retrospective follow-up of 2075 participants in the Survey of High Impact Psychosis (SHIP) using linked registers They extract 17 years (2000-2017) of mortality and physical morbidity outcome data from State and national administrative registers; adding to this register data to previously-collected survey data for a large, nationally representative and comprehensively characterised sample of 2075 people aged 18-64 years with psychotic disorders who took part in SHIP and have already given consent to linkage.
• 2013-2016 Survey of High Impact Psychosis WAve 2 (SHIP WAve 2): this study builds on a rare opportunity to collect longitudinal data on a population-based sample of people with psychotic illness to fill the knowledge gap on cardio-metabolic disease risk modification in people with psychotic illness.
• 2010 Australian National Survey of High Impact Psychosis (SHIP): this study aims to describe the prevalence and profile of psychosis in Australia and to identify factors associated with good outcome in psychosis that are amenable to change and critical to recovery with the intention of informing policy development and service planning.
• 2012 North Metro Survey of High Impact Psychosis (North Metro SHIP) is an extension of the national SHIP survey, in WA North Metropolitan Health Services Mental Health aiming to estimate the local prevalence of psychosis in North Metropolitan Area Health Service; describe the social and economic circumstances of people living with psychosis within North Metropolitan Area Health Service, their mental and physical health profiles, and their use of services; and develop a local evidence base to help inform mental health policy development in North Metropolitan Health Service and to enable service providers to develop services to meet specific local needs to the benefit of people living with psychosis, their family, friends, carers and the services supporting them. A cost analysis using the data collection was also completed.
• 1997-98 Study of Low Prevalence (Psychotic) Disorders (LPDS): Australia's first national survey of psychosis including marginalised people not in contact with treatment services in its sampling and those solely in contact with private psychiatrists and GPs, in addition to those attending public mental health inpatient and outpatient services.
• Simple Physical Activity Questionnaire (SIMPAQ): an International Working Group (clinical and academic experts from more than fifteen countries including NERU’s Anna Waterreus) has developed a brief, easy to use, physical activity questionnaire which assesses sedentary and low intensity behaviours in people with mental illness - the Simple Physical Activity Questionnaire (SIMPAQ).

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The Research Unit for Functional Disorders at Aarhus University Hospital – Psychosomatics and CL Psychiatry is based on an interdisciplinary approach to functional disorders, as these are to be seen both from a psychiatric /psychological, a somatic, and a social angle. The unit is foremost a research unit focusing on research, development and education. However, the unit does have a secondary clinical function.

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The Western Australian Family Study of Schizophrenia (WAFSS) is a flagship study of CCRN comprises a multi-domain assessment of individuals and families, including neurocognitive and neurological tests, personality traits, brain electrical activity, saccadic eye-movements and DNA sampling together with each individual’s history and symptoms. This research aims to identify genetic and cognitive variations that increase the risk for schizophrenia to help guide the development of more personalized approaches to treatment and to capture this wealth of individual differences in schizophrenia. They are looking to recruit people aged 18-65 year with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a close relative (e.g. a  brother or sister) who has schizophrenia and with no personal or family history of schizophrenia.

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