2018 Impact Report
Your support, as well as generous corporate partners and fundraisers in the community, is funding ground-breaking research to better understand what causes mental illness, how to treat it and how to prevent it from happening. Take a look at Breakthrough’s 2018 Impact Report to see how you’re helping to create a life free from mental […]
The Mental Health Space – eating disorders and the future
The Mental Health Space with Alan Hickey airs fortnightly on FIVEaa Adelaide. Adelaide is hosting the 17th annual conference of the Australia & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders from 23-24 august 2019 , where clinicians, researchers and students will get together to share knowledge and ideas on the current understanding of eating disorders and […]
The Mental Health Space – discussing suicide
The Mental Health Space with Alan Hickey airs fortnightly on FIVEaa Adelaide. The reasons people take their own life are complex and often there is no single reason why a person may contemplate suicide or die by suicide. This episode of The Mental Health Space Alan Hickey speaks about the topic of suicide with Karen […]
The Mental Health Space – gambling and mental health
The Mental Health Space with Alan Hickey airs fortnightly on FIVEaa Adelaide. This week on FIVEaa’s Mental Health Space we discussed gambling and mental health. People gamble for a whole range of reasons. While gambling moderately is not a problem, gambling can become an addiction and can be harmful to our mental health. On this […]
2019/20 Health Seed Grant Round now open!
Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation is proud to offer a research grant round to support mental health and medical researchers from Flinders University and the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, made possible thanks to generous donors and supporters in the community. Researchers can apply through the 2019/20 Flinders Foundation Health Seed Grant Round, with up […]
The Mental Health Space – Physical activity, sport and mental health
The Mental Health Space with Alan Hickey airs fortnightly on FIVEaa Adelaide. This week on FIVEaa’s Mental Health Space we discussed the impact physical activity and sport can have on mental health. Physical activity can protect against feelings of distress, enhance our psychological well-being, protect against symptoms of anxiety, protect against depressive symptoms and delay […]
The Mental Health Space – Chronic Pain, Depression and Drug Addiction
The Mental Health Space with Alan Hickey airs fortnightly on FIVEaa Adelaide. This week on FIVEaa’s Mental Health Space we discussed Chronic Pain, Depression and Drug Addiction. Alan Hickey was joined by John Mannion, Breakthrough Executive Director and Professor Rainer Haberberger, Professor of Anatomy and Histology, Orama Institute for Mental Health, Wellbeing and Neuroscience, […]
Sporting clubs gearing up to tackle mental health head on
Sporting clubs across South Australia will be tackling mental health head on over the weekend of June 22 in the inaugural Breakthrough Community Round. A number of clubs will wear purple and blue armbands to raise funds for Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation and increase awareness of the importance of mental health research. Right now, […]
The Mental Health Space – Cyber Bullying and Mental Health
The Mental Health Space with Alan Hickey airs fortnightly on FIVEaa Adelaide. This week on FIVEaa’s Mental Health Space we discussed Cyber Bullying, Alan was joined by Australia’s e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, Flinders University’s Professor Phillip Slee and Michael Skouroumounis. Our guests, discussed what is cyber bullying, how does it take place, what the […]
The Mental Health Space – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Perfectionism
The Mental Health Space with Alan Hickey airs fortnightly on FIVEaa Adelaide. Joining Alan Hickey and John Mannion this week was Flinders University Professor Mike Kyrios and former Australian netballer Jane Altschwager, sharing her own personal story of perfectionism. This show originally aired on 14 May, 2019. We’re thrilled to be leading this fortnightly show on […]
