Division of Medicine Athena Swan 'Opening up: a conversation on men’s health and wellbeing'

Opening up: a conversation on men’s health and wellbeing

Tuesday19th November 2024
3.30pm – 5pm
Rayne 2nd floor seminar room and Teams
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The LIFE trial: mechanisms underlying the antidepressant effect of physical activity
Dr Emily Hird

Emily Hird is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. Her research examines the mechanisms driving symptoms of depression, psychosis, and the placebo effect, with a particular focus on reward processing and prediction error.  She is currently leading Professor Jon Roiser’s trial into the mechanisms underlying the antidepressant effect of exercise, focusing on its effect on motivation and anhedonia.  

Prior to her current work, she completed her PhD at the University of Manchester and was a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of Psychology, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London.

Frailty in the ageing male and sarcopenia in prostate cancer - the T connection
Dr Adrian Slee

Adrian Slee is an Associate Professor (Teaching) in Nutrition at UCL, and Course Director for the BSc Nutrition and Medical Sciences degree, teaching across all of the Nutrition programmes. His research interests include a wide scope around the conditions of malnutrition, cachexia, sarcopenia and frailty in different population groups including, frail older people, renal, cancer, liver, cardiac, and surgical patients. He is interested in improving screening and assessment of these conditions in clinical practice and development of interventions such as nutrition and exercise.

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