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Dr Vlasios Brakoulias selected as Co-Chair

, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Nepean Clinical School and Brain and Mind Centre, has been appointed as the Co-Chair for the Early-Career Researcher Mental Health Partnership between the UNSW and the University of Sydney. In this role, Dr Brakoulias will help strengthen collaborations between Early- and Mid-Career Researchers at both universities in the mental health space. Dr Brakoulias is an excellent candidate that will make a valuable contribution to this historic partnership.听听about this partnership between UNSW and University of Sydney.

NSW Health PhD Scholarships听

Two Brain and Mind Centre students are successful recipients of the inaugural听. Launched for the first time this year, the program supports PhD candidates who work with NSW local health districts (LHDs), the Ambulance Service of NSW and specialty health networks (SHNs).
Taylor Braund received one of these coveted scholarships for his PhD project titled 'Identifying biomarkers of anxious depression: an integrative neuroscience approach'. Supervised by听, Taylor hopes to identify biomarkers related to treatment prediction of Anxious Depression.听

Elizabeth Highton-Williamson听was also awarded the scholarship. Supervised by听,听this scholarship will support research in the neurodegeneration space. Her project, titled 'Behavioural phenotype in neurodegeneration: insights into disease听progression',听aims to better understand the progression of behavioural symptoms in patients with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD) and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP).

NHMRC Boosting Dementia Research Leadership Fellowships

A听$5.4 million investment听in dementia research, one of the Brain and Mind Centre鈥檚 major focus areas, was announced by the Federal Government in July. The听Boosting Dementia Research Leadership Fellowships听will support a number of our researchers working in healthy ageing and neurodegeneration.听

Dr Carol Dobson-Stone, a Senior Research Fellow and geneticist from our听, received a $715,144 Leadership Fellowship to discover genes that are mutated in dementia.听

Professor Sharon Naismith, Leonard P. Ullman Chair in Psychology, and team leader of our听, was awarded a $720,021 Leadership Fellowship to investigate novel assessments and interventions for dementia.

This investment will pave the way for collaboration across the University and beyond, placing the Brain and Mind Centre in a stronger position to deliver real results in the dementia space.听

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