Dr Maria Di Biase

Dr Maria Di Biase

Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

Good sleep is key to pre-teen mental health

Improving sleep could be one way to help protect and support a young adolescent’s mental health and wellbeing – with long-lasting benefits

Health & Medicine

Brain development is altered in people at high risk of psychosis

Neuroscientists have shown the brain’s white matter develops slower in young people at high clinical risk of a psychotic episode, which may pave the way for earlier treatment

Health & Medicine

Schizophrenia: Mapping how the brain changes

A new brain scanning technique reveals how changes in white and grey matter seen in schizophrenia are linked, and how the brain compensates for these changes, at least in the illness’s early stages