
WOMHER
Uppsala University's Center for Women's Mental Health
Women’s Mental Health during the Reproductive Lifespan - Womher
Mental illness is becoming one of the biggest and most costly societal issues of our time. That is why Uppsala University's Center for Women's Mental Health, WOMHER, was started - a unique interdisciplinary center with the goal of developing evidence-based knowledge for future strategic decisions in working life and society. With the entire university's breadth as the main strength, we create networks and train a new generation of researchers who want and can make a difference.
Allison Eriksson has completed her half-term seminar
Our warmest congratulations to Allison Eriksson, a WOMHER PhD student at the Department of Women´s and Children´s Health, for a well-executed half-term seminar.
Allisons project, Physiological predictors of postpartum anxiety and depression (3PAD), aims to use two physiological measures, heart rate variability (HRV) and pupil dilation (PD), to predict pregnant women who are at-risk for poor mental health outcomes during the postpartum period.
The project is supervised by Emma Fransson, Affiliated Researcher at Department of Women's and Children's Health.
More about the project, Physiological predictors of postpartum anxiety and depression.

New study links contraceptive pills and depression

Women who used combined contraceptive pills were at greater risk of developing depression than women who did not, according to a new study from Uppsala University. Contraceptive pills increased women’s risk by 73 per cent during the first two years of use. This shows in a New study from Uppsala university.
Therese Johansson of the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University, one of the researchers leading the study as well as she is one of WOMHERs 17 doctoral students attending our research school.
Read the article about the study: https://www.uu.se/en/news/archive/2023-06-13-new-study-links-contraceptive-pills-and-depression
Fatih Özel has completed his half-term seminar
Our warmest congratulations to Fatih Özel, a WOMHER PhD student at the Department of Organismal Biology, for a well-executed half-term seminar.
Fatih´s research project, Gender identity and origin of gender dysphoria in birth-assigned females, is supervised by Joelle Ruegg, Professor at the Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University. Visit WOMHER’s website to read more about the project.

News
- Allison Eriksson has completed her half-term seminar 2023-08-23
- New study links contraceptive pills and depression 2023-06-16
- Fatih Özel has completed his half-term seminar 2023-06-02
- WOMHER’s International Interdisciplinary Conference 2023 2023-05-23
- Mengyu Zhong has completed her half-term seminar 2023-03-31
Calendar
Publications
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A case study in designing trustworthy interactions: implications for socially assistive robotics
2023
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A feasibility trial of online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for women with Provoked Vestibulodynia
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A feasibility trial of online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for women with provoked vestibulodynia
2023
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Addressing the needs of Ethiopia's street homeless women of reproductive age in the health and social protection policy: a qualitative study
2023
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Alcohol consumption habits and associations with anxiety or depressive symptoms postpartum in women with high socioeconomic status in Sweden.
2022
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Assessing volumetric brain differences in migraine and depression patients: a UK Biobank study
2023
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Characterization of the human ABO genotypes and their association to common inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases in the UK Biobank
2021
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Contradictions hindering the provision of mental healthcare and psychosocial services to women experiencing homelessness in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: service providers' and programme coordinators' experiences and perspectives
2023
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Effect of comorbid ADHD on mortality in women with borderline personality disorder
2022
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Exploration of factors affecting parent-infant closeness and separation in hospitals in Nepal: a qualitative study
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Exploring the relationship between early life adversity, telomere length and peripartum depression
2022
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Impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals on neurodevelopment: the need for better testing strategies for endocrine disruption-induced developmental neurotoxicity
2022
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Injury proneness in women with personality disorders reflects an increased risk for both natural and unnatural death.
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Investigating mental health disorders in relation to job and living related factors
2023
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Major sex differences in migraine prevalence among occupational categories: a cross-sectional study using UK Biobank
2021
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Migraine as a risk factor for mixed symptoms of peripartum depression and anxiety in late pregnancy: A prospective cohort study.
2021
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Migraine comorbidities: Associations with psychiatric and gastrointestinal disorders
2023
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Mom2B: a study of perinatal health via smartphone application and machine learning methods
2022
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Mortality in women with personality disorders: Relationship to childbearing, ADHD and injuries treated in healthcare
2023
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Oral Contraceptives, Hormone Replacement Therapy, and Stroke Risk
2022
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Pharmacogenetics and Pain Treatment with a Focus on Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) and Antidepressants: A Systematic Review
2022
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Polygenic association with severity and long-term outcome in eating disorder cases
2022
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Population-based cohort study of oral contraceptive use and risk of depression
2023
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Predicting perinatal health outcomes using smartphone-based digital phenotyping and machine learning in a prospective Swedish cohort (Mom2B): study protocol
2022
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Prenatal exposure to phthalates and gender-specific play behavior at seven years of age in the SELMA study
2023
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Psychiatrists’ Views on Robot-Assisted Diagnostics of Peripartum Depression
2021
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Psykologiska aspekter på graviditet och förlossning
2021
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Sustainable labour market participation among working young adults with diagnosed attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
2023
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The role of sociodemographic and clinical factors in the initiation and discontinuation of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication among young adults in Sweden
2023
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Time-dependent effects of oral contraceptive use on breast, ovarian and endometrial cancers
2021
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Triple network model of brain connectivity changes related to adverse mood effects in an oral contraceptive placebo-controlled trial
2023
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Unimodal vs. Multimodal Prediction of Antenatal Depression from Smartphone-based Survey Data in a Longitudinal Study
2022
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U-PAIN cohort study among patients with chronic pain in specialised pain care: a feasibility study
2022