Mindgardens Neuroscience Network

📣 Calling all Data Analysts! The UNSW Medicine & Health Faculty is advertising a new position that will play a key role within the Centre for Big Data Research, contributing actively to high-quality analyst support for the translational research activities of South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) Mental Health Service. 🤝💙 🧠Reporting to the Mindgardens Senior Project Officer, and working directly with the Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service Clinical Director, Psychiatry, the Data Analyst position will help to improve service delivery and health outcomes for Mental Health consumers and their families, carers and support persons. 🔍👥 Apply now and join the team! https://lnkd.in/gsaCeQ_H

Are you a Peer Worker interested in early psychosis services, passionate about empowering young people to thrive in education and life? Join the Early Psychosis Program team in Bondi! This exciting new role within a dynamic team will help young people navigate their educational journeys while supporting their mental health and wellbeing. Working within the Early Psychosis Program (EPP) in a multidisciplinary mental health team that provides specialised interventions to young people, the EPP Peer Support Worker will provide lived experience guided, recovery orientated, trauma informed peer support to people who access the EPP. Apply now! https://lnkd.in/gBKSX4gQ South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD)

An exceptional program for this year's CARE #FND Symposium, to be held in Sydney on Sunday. Professor Valsamma Eapen will present a keynote about sensory processing in FND. Neurologist Dr Gabriela Gilmour from the University of Calgary will be talking about transdisciplinary care and treatment decisions, while Patrick Bolton will discuss care pathways for this complex set of conditions. Dr Adith M. is presenting results from the Mindgardens #FunctionalNeurologicalDisorders Clinic, which uses a brief, multidisciplinary protocol to optimise patients' care before they return to their usual treating team for ongoing support. It is exciting that scientific understanding and system responses are both advancing so quickly and this promises to be a great day. #LivedExperience https://lnkd.in/g2wRg7au

Fascinating collaboration centred on the #NeuroLog app, an Australian invention which helps people living with #FunctionalNeurologicalDisorder record their symptoms and improve communication with their treating teams about flares and triggers. #researchtranslation #livedexperience #FND Adith M.

📣 Join a growing, passionate team at South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service, collaborating with Mindgardens and Orygen Youth Mental Health! 🤝💙 🧠The team is looking for applicants with a Psychology background and practical research/project management experience for a Psychologist, CogScreen Trial Research Assistant role — an integral part of a multi-site trial aiming to identify valid and implementable cognitive screening for young people with first-episode psychosis. 🔍👥 Apply now and help transform the future of NSW Health services and improve outcomes for the community: https://lnkd.in/gGW-cJEJ

Physical health and mental health have been seen as separate issues for too long. Integrating all aspects of health care is essential to ensuring an overall improvement for all participants, so the importance of studies like this into the leading cause of death in psychiatric hospitals cannot be overstated. Congratulations to this incredible team for continuing to bring this issue into the light and improving the health of people seeking psychiatric care.

"I already see the benefits of physical exercise, but sometimes, especially in the days of darkness, it’s good just to have a hero from somebody else". This quote reflects the heart of the Keeping the Body in Mind Primary Care lifestyle intervention program. 📢The first evaluation of this innovative, community-based program, led by Eliza Draper, is published today in the Australian Journal of Primary Health. The program provides tailored, mental health-informed physical health support for people living with severe mental illness. Delivered through a collaboration between Mindgardens Neuroscience Network and Central and Eastern Sydney PHN, with ongoing partnership through UNSW Medicine & Health at the Health Translation Hub, it offers free, flexible care combining telehealth and face-to-face sessions from accredited exercise physiologists and dietitians. 💡What makes it work: - Compassionate, mental health-informed support - Hybrid delivery that enhances accessibility - Personalised care addressing both physical and psychological wellbeing ✨ What we found: - Increased physical activity - Reduced sedentary time - Healthier nutrition habits This evaluation reinforces the urgent need for integrated, multidisciplinary approaches in primary care - ones that truly meet people where they are, physically and emotionally. We sincerely thank Central and Eastern Sydney PHN for their funding and UNSW School of Clinical Medicine for their ongoing support in delivering this vital program. Authors: Eliza Draper, Scott Teasdale, Jackie Curtis AM, Philip Ward, Liam Conlon, Andrew Watkins, Rachel Morell, Belinda Parmenter, Hamish Fibbins #MentalHealth #PrimaryCare #PhysicalHealth #TranslationalResearch #Mindgardens #UNSW #CESPHN #SevereMentalIllness #HealthTranslationHub Link to paper: https://lnkd.in/g2ZDdfXx

The physical health gap for people living with severe mental illness is one of the most urgent yet underserved public health challenges today, demanding innovative and empathetic interventions.   Our latest paper shares insights from the "Keeping the Body in Mind: Primary Care" lifestyle intervention, a collaboration between Mindgardens Neuroscience Network and Central Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network since 2021, now continuing with UNSW at the Health Translation Hub. Through free, flexible, hybrid delivery, this program supports participants in improving their physical wellbeing alongside mental health care. Reflecting on their experience of support through the program, one participant said, "I already see the benefits of physical exercise, but sometimes, especially in the days of darkness, it’s good to just have a hero from somebody else."   These findings highlight the value of personalised, integrated care approaches that genuinely engage people with severe mental illness in achievable lifestyle change.   We sincerely thank Central and Eastern Sydney PHN for funding and UNSW Lifestyle Clinic for their partnership and support. Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/gk6ZNmrk UNSW School of Clinical Medicine, Eliza Draper, Scott Teasdale, Jackie Curtis AM, Philip Ward, Liam Conlon, Andrew Watkins, Rachel Morell, Belinda Parmenter, Hamish Fibbins #KBIM #KBIMPrimary

For more than five years, MindLabs has been a key initiative of the Mindgardens Neuroscience Network, growing from a few targeted workshops to a multi-part education platform offering learning modules, events and advisory sessions🎓. Intended for people currently working in the fields of mental health, drug and alcohol, and neurological disorders, MindLabs programs are designed to increase the skills, confidence and overall capabilities of their participants🤝. Our new publication, the MindLabs Impact Report, captures the perspectives of thousands of attendees since the platform’s inception, chronicling its growth and individual accounts of those involved📘. As Mindgardens Executive Director, Professor Jackie Curtis AM, says in her opening letter, this report demonstrates MindLabs’ work in action, detailing years of collaboration and positive contribution to research translation 🔬. We couldn’t be more excited to share this with you! 👉 Read the full MindLabs Impact Report here: https://lnkd.in/g9M3XvAf #MindLabs Catherine O'Donnell, Hamish Fibbins, Andrew Watkins, Rachel Morell, Carmen Crespo Gonzalez, Ashleigh Allan, Justine Gatt

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