Mental health

Mental health

Mental health conditions are increasing worldwide. Mental illness immobilises individuals and devastates families, communities, societies, and economies. At a time when the burden of mental illness outweighs the availability of clinical services in the community, it is important to seek new horizons, evolve treatments and look for new avenues to create a mentally healthy community.

Monash is committed to finding better, different and innovative ways of treating mental illness - and the opportunity to do this is with psychedelics. We're bringing together the greatest minds to discover, develop and apply new ground-breaking research meaning better minds, better medicines and better futures.

Better mental health through neuromedicines

Focusing on stimulating research into mental illness to bring hope to those for whom current treatments are ineffective and offering end-to-end capability by transforming research outcomes into community impact.

Treating mental illness with psychedelics

Paradigm-shifting research into drug discovery for neuropsychiatric disorders, covering a range of disciplines including structural biology, molecular pharmacology, cellular & native tissue pharmacology and translational biology.

The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health

A world leader in research dedicated to preventative brain and mental health research, treatment and education – optimising brain and mental health through community driven, world leading research, a network of clinics and innovative solutions.

Our focus on mental health

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The state of mental health

Over the past four decades, there have been extraordinary breakthroughs in the treatment of a wide range of diseases. Yet, despite the fact that a quarter of people will experience a mental health disorder during their lifetime, there hasn’t been anything like the same innovation in mental health.

Monash Lens brings you the current research into mental illness that is bringing hope to sufferers and expert commentary on the state of mental illness and the solutions being explored.

Read the stories

Treating mental illness with psychedelics

Neuromedicine-assisted psychotherapies to offer new hope in the treatment of mental illness

Village people: Working to prevent the intergenerational impacts of family mental illness

The need for mental health education in Australian schools