Professor Alison Yung; Exercise as an intervention in early psychosis - benefits and challenges

Hosted by Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health at the Melbourne Brain Centre on 29 March 2019; the Exercise and Youth Mental Health: Moving in the Right Direction symposium brought together world leading and early career researchers the impact of exercise on young people experiencing mental-ill health, the evidence for the underlying mechanisms involved as well as real-world experiences of implementing exercise-based programs in the youth mental health clinical setting.

Alison Yung is Professor of Psychiatry and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester.

Professor Yung has held positions as Professor and Consultant Psychiatrist at Orygen Research Centre and the Centre for Youth Mental Health. In 2012 she moved to take up a Professorship at the University of Manchester, UK. She returned to Melbourne in late 2018 to take up an NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship.

Professor Yung received the Lilly Oration Award for prominence in psychiatric research in 2009, and the Richard J Wyatt Award in 2010, for exceptional contributions to the area of early intervention in psychosis. In 2014 and 2016 and she was named as one of the “world’s most influential scientific minds” by Thomson Reuters. From 2016 to 2018 she was named as a “highly cited Researcher” by Clarivate Analytics.

Professor Yung has been researching the early stages of psychotic disorder since 1994. From 2013 to 2105 she was Chief Investigator on a study examining the effects of exercise in young people with early psychosis.

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I will take this research/knowledge with me to me new IEP job. Holistic care is so important & finding out what matters to the service user and what THEY want their end goal to be is critical.

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Is there a correlation between people using antipsychotic medication and developing an eating disorder???