#560 Jayashri Kulkarni: Women's Mental Health, Depression, and Clinical Research
RECORDED ON AUGUST 25th 2021.
Dr. Jayashri Kulkarni is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Monash University who works in the area of women’s mental health. She has written about Premenstrual syndrome. She has used hormones to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression in women. She founded and heads the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre.
In this episode, we talk about women’s mental health. Topics include: depression, and its hormonal factors; post-natal depression; the impact of menopause on women’s mental wellbeing; gender differences in schizophrenia; bipolar disorder; how hormones influence cognition; the impact of oral contraceptives on mental health; and the importance of sex differences in psychiatric research and clinical practice.
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Intro
Depression
Post-natal depression
Menopause
Schizophrenia
Bipolar disorder
Cognition
Oral contraceptives
The importance of gender in research and clinical practice
Follow Dr. Kulkarni’s work!
Follow Dr. Kulkarni’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/3mS0KaG
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/2QtMUyN
MAPRC: https://bit.ly/3mADM9J
Twitter handle: @jayashrikulkar1