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Michael Breakspear
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Michael Breakspear
Michael is a Psychiatrist and Neuroscientist researching the principles of brain function in health and mental illness. Professor Breakspear leads the Systems Neuroscience Group – a team of psychiatrists, physicists, psychologists and neuroimaging scientists at the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Australia. He uses computational modelling to study the generative processes underlying bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia and in healthy ageing. Professor Breakspear studied medicine at the University of Sydney, combined with degrees in Arts (philosophy and mathematics) and Science (neuroscience and physics). He is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists with a weekly clinic at the Awabakal Aboriginal Medical Service.
Michael is a Psychiatrist and Neuroscientist researching the principles of brain function in health and mental illness. Professor Breakspear leads the Systems Neuroscience Group – a team of psychiatrists, physicists, psychologists and neuroimaging scientists at the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Australia. He uses computational modelling to study the generative processes underlying bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia and in healthy ageing. Professor Breakspear studied medicine at the University of Sydney, combined with degrees in Arts (philosophy and mathematics) and Science (neuroscience and physics). He is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists with a weekly clinic at the Awabakal Aboriginal Medical Service.
