- Can physical activity prevent or treat youth anxiety or depression?
- How can remote measurement technologies help with youth mental health?
In this half hour panel discussion, Dr Alan Bailey (Melbourne, Australia), Fiyory Ghezae, and Dr Annie Walsh (London/Birmingham) explore the links between physical activity, exercise and good mental health, and consider the future possibilities of wearable technology as a way to monitor our physical activity and physiology and self-manage our mental health.
- 00:48 Introductions
- 02:08 What is physical activity?
- 03:05 Is exercise good for our mental health?
- 03:51 Can physical activity help to prevent mental illness?
- 04:58 Can physical activity treat youth depression or anxiety?
- 06:13 How can we promote physical activity to youth?
- 11:58 Does physical activity have any adverse effects?
- 13:28 Do we know why physical activity helps people with depression?
- 16:54 What are remote measurement technologies?
- 18:30 What does your work tell us about remote measurement technologies?
- 23:28 Is mental health research always playing catch up?
Watch the video version of this show on the Mental Elf YouTube channel.
Find out more about Wellcome Mental Health:
https://wellcome.org/what-we-do/mental-health
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