Episode 3: Movement and Monitoring - Wellcome Whatever Works #ActiveIngredientsMH

The Mental Elf

• 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.

1. 00:48 Introductions
2. 02:08 What is physical activity?
3. 03:05 Is exercise good for our mental health?
4. 03:51 Can physical activity help to prevent mental illness?
5. 04:58 Can physical activity treat youth depression or anxiety?
6. 06:13 How can we promote physical activity to youth?
7. 11:58 Does physical activity have any adverse effects?
8. 13:28 Do we know why physical activity helps people with depression?
9. 16:54 What are remote measurement technologies?
10. 18:30 What does your work tell us about remote measurement technologies?
11. 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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