Early antipsychotic exposure during childhood and adolescence: Does it lead to long term brain and behaviour changes in adulthood? [ 2017 - ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Dr Jiamei Lian (Principal investigator)

Brief description Mental health problems affect at least 9% of Australia's 4.1 million children. With the trend towards prescribing antipsychotic medication “off-label” to control these mental disorders in young people and the long-term consequences of doing so unknown, this timely research program aims to address a critical health issue by providing clinicians with valuable information so they can better balance the risk/benefit ratio before prescribing antipsychotics to young people.

Funding Amount $318,768.00

Funding Scheme Early Career Fellowships

Notes Peter Doherty Biomedical ECF