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Researching common cold and COVID-19
Australian researchers are leading investigations into SARS-CoV-2 and discovering how the common cold might help immune cells see the virus.
The battle for COVID-19 is not yet over. Currently available vaccines will provide relief but the road ahead remains uncertain. Much work remains to be done.
A team from La Trobe University, in collaboration with QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Monash University and The University of Queensland, is leading the way in research on SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the disease we know as COVID-19.
Their significant finding, in the journal Immunity, reveals that catching the common cold might help our immune cells to “see” the SARS-CoV-2 virus before catching it.
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Deep brain stimulation has been found to help people with severe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) that has not responded to other treatment, in a clinical trial led by University of Queensland researchers.
Study lead author Dr Philip Mosley from the Queensland Brain Institute, CSIRO and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute said the trial produced some remarkable results given the lifetime of disability experienced by participants.
“For example, one participant has married, started a business and now has a young family after participating in the study,” Dr Mosley said.
“We have demonstrated that deep brain stimulation is a promising treatment, and our ultimate goal is for this to become an approved therapy for those sufferers with extreme and treatment-resistant OCD.”
For the first time, researchers have identified why depression and anxiety often occur together.
A study, led by the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, has identified more than 500 genes that influence both depression and anxiety.
Guest: Professor Eske Derks, senior researcher; head of Translational Neurogenomics Group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
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Friday, 16 April 2021, 10:16 am
New
Australian research, led by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research
Institute, has identified 509 genes that influence both
depression and anxiety - confirming a genetic relationship
between the mental health conditions.
The study
findings have been published overnight in the prestigious
journal
Nature Human Behaviour, and are the first to
identify so many genes that are shared between depression
and anxiety.
The senior researcher and head of QIMR
Berghofer’s Translational Neurogenomics Group, Professor
Eske Derks, said depression and anxiety are the two most
prevalent psychiatric disorders in the world and often
co-occur together in the same person.
“Not a lot has
Study reveals genetic link between depression and anxiety ANI | Updated: Apr 16, 2021 05:09 IST
Queensland [Australia], April 16 (ANI): New Australian research, led by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, has identified 509 genes that influence both depression and anxiety - confirming a genetic relationship between the mental health conditions.
The study findings have been published overnight in the prestigious journal Nature Human Behaviour, and are the first to identify so many genes that are shared between depression and anxiety.
The senior researcher and head of QIMR Berghofer s Translational Neurogenomics Group, Professor Eske Derks, said that depression and anxiety are the two most prevalent psychiatric disorders in the world and often co-occur together in the same person.