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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

Porträtt Therese Johansson

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. 

Last modified: 2023-08-23
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