Mental Health
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Project Leader
Professor Lorraine Dennerstein+61 3 8344 5509
Project Details
Our research into Mental Health focuses on both positive and negative aspects of mood, mental health treatments, and psychotropic drug use. The mental health trajectories project has examined changes in negative mood and depressive symptoms in the cohort over the course of 20 years.
The Healthy Ageing Program's research projects in Mental Health include:
- Depression and mood in ageing women
- Causes of depressive symptoms in early ageing
- Vitamin D levels and mood
- Alcohol use and effects on mood in elderly women
- Positive mood in ageing women
- Anxiety in elderly women
Researchers
- Professor Lorraine Dennerstein
- Dr Katherine Campbell
- Laura Skazlic
- Yujie Fang
Research Outcomes
Our research in the media
- Changing their lives: Meet the women loving their midlife crisis (Herald Sun, 4 September 2018)
- What's that word? Brain changes begin years before Alzheimer's diagnosis (Hospital and Healthcare, February 2017)
- Exercising in middle age can save your memory later (Pursuit, University of Melbourne, June 2016)
- Crowded house as kids fail to launch (Pursuit, University of Melbourne, November 2015)
Research Publications
- Altun, A., Brown, H., Szoeke, C., & Goodwill, A. M. (2019). The Mediterranean dietary pattern and depression risk: A systematic review. Neurology, Psychiatry and Brain Research, 33, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.npbr.2019.05.007
- Jamieson, A., Goodwill, A. M., Termine, M., Campbell, S., & Szoeke, C. (2019). Depression related cerebral pathology and its relationship with cognitive functioning: A systematic review. Journal of affective disorders. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.03.042
- Campbell, K. E., Dennerstein, L., Tacey, M., & Szoeke, C. E. (2017). The trajectory of negative mood and depressive symptoms over two decades. Maturitas, 95, 36-41. doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2016.10.011
- Campbell, K. E., Dennerstein, L., Tacey, M., Fujise, N., Ikeda, M., & Szoeke, C. (2017). A comparison of geriatric depression scale scores in older Australian and Japanese women. Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences, 26(1), 70-78. doi: 10.1017/S2045796015001110
- Campbell, K. E., Szoeke, C. E., & Dennerstein, L. (2015). The course of depressive symptoms during the postmenopause: a review. Women's midlife health, 1(1), 3. doi: 10.1186/s40695-015-0003-x
- Pietrzak, R. H., Scott, J. C., Neumeister, A., Lim, Y. Y., Ames, D., Ellis, K. A., ... & Masters, C. L. (2014). Anxiety symptoms, cerebral amyloid burden and memory decline in healthy older adults without dementia: 3-year prospective cohort study. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 204(5), 400-401. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.113.134239