EVENTS

Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research 

Professor Gin Malhi will be presenting at the upcoming Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research Conference in Dunedin New Zealand in December 2011. For more information about this conference, please go to: http://www.iceaustralia.com/aspr2011.

Australasian Society for Bipolar and Depressive Disorders Conference 

Professor Gin Malhi will be presenting at the upcoming Australasian Society for Bipolar and Depressive Disorders Conference in Sydney Australia in October 2011. For more information about this conference, please go to: http://www.asbd2011.com/.

International Bipolar Foundation

Professor Gin Malhi has recently accepted an invitation to join the Scientific Advisory Board for the International Bipolar Disorder Foundation.

The mission of the Foundation is to eliminate bipolar disorder through the advancement of research; to promote and enhance care & support services; and to erase associated stigma through public education.

30th Anniversary Celebrations for the Ryde Bipolar Support Group

Professor Gin Malhi recently spoke at the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Ryde Bipolar Support Group on the topic of current research into Bipolar Disorder. 

The Ryde Bipolar Support Group is run to support people living with Bipolar Disorder - consumers, carers, families and friends of Culturally And Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities.

For more information: http://www.ourcommunity.com.au/directories/listing?id=49692

THE LAUNCH OF ARCHI                  

The Royal North Shore Hospital and the Univeristy of Sydney were pleased to launch the Advanced Research & Clinical High-field Imaging scanner - otherwise known as ARCHI. ARCHI is the centre piece of the CADE Clinic's neuroscience research.

ARCHI is a 3-Tesler magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner solely dedicated to research purposes. ARCHI allows researchers to study structural and functional images of the brain, as well as allowing analysis of its  chemical makeup. In addition to the CADE Clinics research into mood disorders,  ARCHI is used by other research groups across a variety of clinical fields including chronic fatigue syndrome, brain injury, pain management, and post-traumantic stress syndrome.

See below for links to articles published about ARCHI and photos from the launch.

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Hope for mental health research

by Kim Smee, published in the North Side Courier, page 5, June 18th.

Looking Through the Scanner

The North Shore Times also published an article about the launch of ARCHI in June, 2008.

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Photos from the official launch of ARCHI