Midler til forskning på trening mot depresjon
Forsker i PaGE-gruppen Robyn Wootton ble tildelt forskningsmidler fra Helse Sør-Øst for 2025 for doktorgradsprosjektet: The MEME project - Making Exercise interventions More Effective for depression and anxiety.
Publisert 21.01.2025
Sist oppdatert 22.01.2025
MEME-prosjektet har som formål å øke forståelsen for hvorfor trening er en så effektiv intervensjon for personer med angst og depresjon, og hvorfor det er en så mye mer effektiv intervensjon for noen, mens andre opplever mindre effekt.
Prosjektleder Robyn Wootton er forsker i forskningsgruppen Psychiatric Genetic Epidemology (PaGE) ved LDS.
Prosjektet har oppstart i 2025 og vil rekruttere én ny Ph.d.-stipendiat til Lovisenberg.
Kort prosjektbeskrivelse på engelsk:
Depression and anxiety are the two most common types of mental health conditions. There is strong evidence that, for most people, exercise improves symptoms of depression and anxiety. However, some individuals experience no improvement, and there are some for whom exercise actual makes their symptoms worse. As a result, doctors are less likely to prescribe exercise, given the lack of information as to which individuals may benefit. In order to tailor exercise interventions appropriately to individual needs, we need to better understand the mechanisms that make exercise beneficial for mental health.
The MEME project aims to better understand why exercise interventions are effective for individuals with depression and anxiety, and why they are more effective for some individuals than others. We will achieve this aim with three projects:
1) Using wearable technologies (smart rings and phone apps) in ModumBad inpatient mental health setting to evaluate the efficacy of exercise interventions for patients with depression and anxiety.
2) Using large, longitudinal data to identify exercise mechanisms that best improve symptoms of depression and anxiety.
3) Testing which exercise mechanisms play the largest causal role on depression and anxiety.