Ian Hickie.
Ian Hickie. A multidisciplinary team led by the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney has been awarded a $5.4M trust grant to fund their research into youth-onset mood disorders called circadian depression. An international team led by Professor Ian Hickie at the Brain and Mind Centre will research whether circadian rhythm (24-hour body clock) dysregulation is the true underlying cause of many major depressive and other mood disorders, and how we can accurately measure these disturbances in blood. Sleep and circadian rhythm disturbances are a common feature of mood disorders in young people. A new $5.4M Wellcome Mental Health Award will enable the team to test the hypothesis is that these disturbances are the underlying cause or mechanism of some people's mental health condition. The grant recipients state: "A "one-size-fits-all" approach to youth-onset mood disorders does not work. New ways of thinking, and new models of treatment, are needed urgently.
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