Young adults with and without Generalized Anxiety Disorder are at-risk for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Transient feelings of depressed mood (feeling sad, empty, hopeless, gloomy), or ‘depressed mood state’, is a primary characteristic of MDD, […]
Irritability in Anxiety and Depression Irritability is characterized by disproportionately excessive, easily provoked anger, annoyance, or impatience, and can be experienced as a temporary state, or a persistent trait. Individuals with irritable mood may appear […]
Research Impact: This ‘go-to’ snapshot review of the landscape of resistance exercise training for anxiety and depressive symptoms and disorders highlights moderate-to-large, potentially clinically meaningful improvements, particularly among those with stronger symptom severity. The article […]
Research Impact: This secondary analysis explored the potential mediating effects of changes in mood states in the relationship between exercise intensity and alcohol cravings among 117 sedentary adults (68.4% female; 52±12y) with clinician-diagnosed Alcohol Use […]
Research Impact: This study quantified associations of weekly accumulated moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) doses with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) among 7,650 older adults across 10 years of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. Compared to […]
Research Impact: This secondary analysis investigated potentially optimal acute exercise intensity for reducing state anxiety, the duration of response, and potential influences of depression severity and preferred-intensity exercise. Twenty-four women with MDD who completed five […]
Greetings again out there in Blog land, I am back to update you on my PhD thesis-by-publication journey, which hopefully shall conclude following my VIVA in mid-October. My programme of research investigated the effects of […]
Research Impact: Competition anxiety is highly prevalent in both professional and amateur sport. One of the main difficulties in sport psychology research is manipulating levels of pressure and anxiety in a realistic and controlled environment. […]
Research Impact: We used weekly data collected over eight weeks throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to expand previous findings and use dynamic panel models with fixed effects to better understand the direction and magnitude of the […]
Research Impact: COVID-19 increased sedentary behaviours, decreased physical activity, and worsened mental health. The longitudinal impacts of these changes, however, are relatively unknown. We examined associations between changes in self-reported activity behaviours and mental health […]
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