Neuropsychiatry Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital

Welcome to the website of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Neuropsychiatry Unit, the a clinical unit of the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre - a joint initiative between North Western Mental Health and the University of Melbourne. We are a statewide specialist mental health service based at the John Cade Building of the Royal Melbourne Hospital that offers neuropsychiatric assessment and advice to psychiatric, neurological and other medical and mental health services. In addition, the unit is involved in a range of world-leading research endeavours, innovative educational programmes, and training of mental health clinicians to meet the future specialised mental health needs of the community.

Staffed by a multidisciplinary team including consultant neuropsychiatrists, neuropsychologists, occupational therapist, social worker, behavioural neurologists, training psychiatrists, resident medical officers and mental health and general medical nursing, the unit offers inpatient, outpatient, off-site and telemedicine assessments to other services across the state and the region. With expertise in organic mental disorders, early onset and atypical dementia, Huntington's disease, epilepsy, neurodegenerative conditions, neuroimaging in mental illness, chronic psychotic disorders, movement disorders, ECT and psychosurgery, the unit has strong links to research in cognitive and clinical neuropsychiatry and training within the North-Western Mental Health Region and beyond.

The unit forms a clinical arm of the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, a University of Melbourne research centre with world-leading expertise in cognitive neuropsychiatry, neuroimaging and the neuropsychology of mental illness.