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09 Apr 2025

Abuse of NZ female MPs commonplace, researchers find


Female Members of Parliament in New Zealand are being assaulted with weapons, threatened with rape and subjected to deat...

13 Dec 2024

Mental Health Bill a wasted opportunity, experts warn


A group of mental health professionals has denounced the new Mental Health Bill as being “the old Act with some new lips...

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07 Aug 2024

Project hopes to shift Pacific ideas on food


Making positive shifts today to improve the nutrition of Pacific communities in the future is the hope of a University o...

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09 Jul 2024

Call for better criteria for suspicion of elder abuse


Despite one in six older adults being a victim of elder abuse, its prevalence is often undetected and under-reported, so...

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25 Jun 2024

Trial offers hope for cheaper, more tolerable, ketamine treatment


For those suffering from treatment-resistant depression, the anaesthetic drug ketamine offers hope, but it has side effe...

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07 Mar 2024

Personality and mental health factors linked to vaping uptake


University of Otago researchers have discovered three psychological factors that predict if a non-smoker will start vapi...

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19 Sep 2023

Otago researchers rewarded for excellence


The breadth and strengths of University of Otago research is evident in this year’s Otago Research Awards.

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04 Jul 2023

HRC grants $51 million to Otago researchers


Otago researchers have received a significant $51 million funding boost from the Health Research Council of New Zealand.

27 Jun 2023

New psychedelic-assisted therapy trial aims to help cancer patients


Finding a way to help terminal cancer patients struggling with depressive thoughts and emotions is the aim of a new clin...

20 Jun 2023

Māori-centred approach to mental health care highlights role of whānau


Researchers have developed a “groundbreaking” health model to ensure the cultural differences and needs of Māori mental...

17 Nov 2022

Power to the princess – study shows speedy way to reduce gender stereotypes


Children’s animated movies often enforce gender stereotypes, but they also hold the power to quickly shift them, a Unive...

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26 Oct 2022

Dr Kobus Du Plooy speaks to Newshub about overthinking


Newshub featured comments by Dr Kobus Du Plooy in a recent article about overthinking, as part of its coverage of Mental...

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