Myra Hunter

Mar 21, 2024 | kcl.ac.uk | Ruth A Hackett |Myra Hunter

Experts say tackling gender discrimination is important to supporting the mental health of women at middle and older age. New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and University College London has found that middle-aged and older women who perceive to have experienced gender discrimination report poorer mental wellbeing than those who do not.

Mar 7, 2024 | sdgresources.relx.com | Lydia Brown |Myra Hunter |Rong Chen |Carolyn Crandall

The potential risk for mental health conditions over the menopause transition shapes women's expectations and informs putative physiological mechanisms regulating women's mental health. We review evidence from prospective studies reporting on associations between mental health conditions and the menopause transition. Major depressive disorder and the more prevalent subthreshold depressive symptoms are the most common conditions studied.

Mar 6, 2024 | kcl.ac.uk | Myra Hunter

A new Series of four papers from The Lancet on menopause has argued that an over-simplified narrative of menopause as a health problem to be solved by replacing hormones is not based on evidence and deflects attention from the need for substantial societal shifts in how menopause, and midlife/older women in general, are viewed and treated around the world.