Optimising prevention and early intervention strategies for young people with emerging mood disorders

这项研究的重点是测试新的策略，以确定和治疗青少年和年轻人中严重形式的焦虑，抑郁和新出现的双相情感障碍。它使用来自大脑与心灵研究所和新青年服务机构的4,000多名年轻人的持续数据和其他国家数据集。它提出生物钟的紊乱是一些主要情绪障碍的基础，并评估了针对生物钟设计的新的行为和医疗策略。

This research is focused on testing new strategies to identify and treat severe forms of anxiety, depression and emerging bipolar disorder in teenagers and young adults. It works with ongoing data from over 4,000 young people seen at the Brain & Mind Research Institute and new youth services and other national data sets. It proposes that disturbances of the body clock underpin some major mood disorders and evaluates new behavioural and medical strategies designed that target the clock.