The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of psilocybin assisted psychotherapy in people with TRD to an active control.

This project aims to understand the key training needs of health professionals working with people experiencing long-term medical conditions.

This project is co-designed with community to identity and evaulate opportunities for more culturally appropriate and sustainable services, and to foster the growth of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander disability services sector to ensure social inclusion.

The study of exosomes using MiRNA-centred approaches.

This study aims to develop a framework for optimal role delineation and training for consumer leadership within palliative care.

This research has identified that loss of extracellular vesicles - mediated communication is associated with the development of degeneration of the retina. We are focussed on developing cell therapy treatments for retinal degeneration.

FREED aims to improve the treatment of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) through a novel, personalised approach.

The project is significant for the development of practical, bone-favourable and degradation-inhibiting surfaces for magnesium implants, which are in demand and can bring significant patient benefits.

Our studies are focussing on measuring gait and other affected activities, as well as patient reported outcomes, to determine whether the procedure is effective in the long term.

We are currently conducting a study which uses magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in combination with physical and psychological measures, to identify structural lesions of the neck following whiplash injury.

This research looks at perspective-taking, particularly in the areas of empathy, compassion and alturism.

Low-resolution face images occur in several settings that require a human observer to identify the face or its expression. For example, a crime eyewitness may have seen the perpetrator's face only blurred by distance. This project aims to improve low-resolution face perception. Previous approaches have attempted only to improve general image visibility. Here, the novel theoretical idea is to also alter the face's structure, tapping knowledge about higher-level face coding. Manipulations are caricaturing and whole-then-part alternation, as derived from face-space and holistic processing theories, respectively. Effects of viewpoint and own-versus other race faces will test practical generalisability of the new methods, and refine theory.

Visual search is the process of searching for a target amongst other objects, for example diagnostic medical imaging or airport baggage security screening. This research looks to find characteristics that lead to missing targets and intervene to increase vigilance and reduce misses.

This research wll investigate multiple potential cognitive predictors of crash risk in provisional drivers leading to novel training programs to improve road safety .

This team is undertaking various projects aiming to identify how exposure to enivronmental stress, including extreme heat exposure, can effect health and modify physiological, behavioural, perceptual and cognitive function.