Ask the Experts: Is schizophrenia a frontotemporal dementia?

Abstract

Dr Dennis Velakoulis is a consultant neuropsychiatrist and Director of the Neuropsychiatry Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Clinical Director of the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health. Following graduation from the University of Melbourne in Medicine in 1985, Dr Velakoulis completed a Diploma of Criminology (University of Melbourne) in 1988, gained fellowship for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 1994 and a Masters of Medicine in Neuroscience (University of Melbourne) in 1998. He was appointed an NHMRC Fellow at the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria between 1994 and 1997 and began ongoing research into th..