Dr Leigh Walker

Dr Leigh Walker

NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow; Deputy lead, Mental Health Research, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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Why is research into women’s mental health decades behind?

Historically, medical research has excluded women as too complex. But a new study is investigating how the brain may drive alcohol misuse differently between the sexes.