Neuropsychiatric epidemiology research unit

The Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Research Unit (NERU) is located in the Medical Research Foundation Building in Murray St, Perth. It is home to a number of projects which use large-scale linked databases to explore patterns of neuropsychiatric illness in the community.

• Pathways of risk from conception to disease: a population-based study of the offspring of women with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
• Schizophrenia and criminal offending
• Psychiatric morbidity and intellectual disability: a Western Australian record linkage study
• High Users of Psychiatric Inpatient Services 1990-2006: Database and follow-up study
• The Australian National Survey of High Impact Psychosis (SHIP)
• The incidence of psychosis in Perth and Verona. A comparative study