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The WellEx lab is focused on understanding how exercise and sedentary activities are related to mental health and wellbeing. RTs/Likes ≠ Endorsements.

Madison, WI
Joined December 2019
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Interested in therapy? Join the CBT+ Study! See if you're eligible by clicking the screening survey on our profile! 📧Questions? Email us at [email protected] #MentalHealth #DepressionResearch #UWResearch #CBT
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This fall our very own Dr. Meyer will be a featured speaker at the Motion Impacts Emotion Conference, discussing how resistance exercise can positively impact depression! 🧠🏋️‍♀️ Watch this short clip to learn more about the conference and how to register! youtu.be/4H41gAkuih0
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This international conference is September 27-28, 2025 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA and there will be a virtual option available. We can’t wait to see you there! #MotionImpactsEmotion #mentalhealth #exercise
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Help Us Understand How Exercise Impacts Depression! 💪🧠 Interested? See if you're eligible by clicking the screening survey on our profile! 📧 Questions? Email us at [email protected] #MentalHealth #DepressionResearch #UWResearch #ExerciseScience #RESISTTrial
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If you have epilepsy please fill out this survey for a study being conducted by our lab! Feel free to share with friends, family, and on your own socials to help us learn more about exercise preferences, barriers, and facilitators! 🧠🏃🏋️‍♀️
The Wellbeing and Exercise Lab is seeking adults (18+) with #epilepsy and residing in the U.S. to complete a brief survey about exercise preferences, barriers, and facilitators. If you are interested, please fill out the survey here: redcap.link/haonml1q
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The Wellbeing and Exercise Lab is seeking adults (18+) with #epilepsy and residing in the U.S. to complete a brief survey about exercise preferences, barriers, and facilitators. If you are interested, please fill out the survey here: redcap.link/haonml1q
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We’re currently seeking research participants for an ongoing study. Participants will receive eight free weekly sessions of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Click the link below or email us at [email protected] to learn more and determine your eligibility! redcap.link/rt4lo2vd
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The WellEx lab has been busy presenting at the annual ACSM meeting in Boston! #ACSM2024
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🚨PAPER ALERT🚨 Results from our single-arm resistance exercise training to treat depression pilot are out now! Resistance exercise 2x/wk for 16 wks was feasible, acceptable, and plausibly reduced depression and improved brain blood flow. Link: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Very excited to share that Shania, who successfully defended her master’s thesis today, published her first first-author paper!
My first published paper is open access!! Feel free to give it a look: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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The WellEx Lab spent Spring Break learning and networking at #SBM2024! It was great to catch up with and meet new people interested in behavioral medicine!
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🚨We are hiring!🚨Assistant professor tenure-track position in exercise psychology (broadly defined) at ISU for fall ‘24. Come join a strong, federally-funded translational kinesiology dept in a very supportive environment! DMs open. Plz retweet! isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Io…
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Fantastic, as always, to write with @mph8 and publish an easy-to-read update of the mood benefits of resistance exercise along with current mechanistic considerations. Hoping this can foster broad interest in the area. Exciting ongoing work will add to the evidence soon!
Replying to @JMeyer37
@JMeyer37 and I are extremely excited about what we think is a 'go-to' snapshot of resistance exercise for anxiety and depression along with provocative plausible mechanisms. Wonderful publication experience @TrendsMolecMed authors.elsevier.com/a/1iWHa… @PAfH_UL @UL_Research @HRI_UL
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Researchers at #IowaState want to know whether different types and doses of exercise can improve #mentalhealth, either on their own or integrated into treatment plans, and what underlying mechanisms may be responsible. 🗞️news.iastate.edu/news/2024/0… @WellEx_ISU @iowastatechs
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Reach out via DM or email for more information on either role. Very excited to speak about the positions and the projects!
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Postdoctoral research fellow: isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Io… Great position for a Kinesiology, Psychology, Public Health, or related PhD w/ interest in behavioral intervention clinical trials in mental health. Opportunity for many first-author pubs in a supportive team! Closes 9/4.
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🚨JOB ALERTS!🚨 I'm hiring for 2 full time positions to help us launch a 200-person RCT investigating resistance exercise training in depression - a project coordinator (due 8/24) and a postdoctoral research fellow (due 9/4). Links/more info below. Please share/RT!
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1/ When it rains, it pours. Honored, excited, counting-my-lucky-stars that our second trial evaluating a behavioral depression treatment is now NIMH-funded! I am incredibly thankful to the village of people that helped (pilot trial, bouncing ideas, mentoring, encouraging, etc)!
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Incredibly excited to share that our grant to examine integrating exercise into CBT is funded! Definitely a long journey, but now we actually get to do it! Many thanks to all of the mentors and teammates who helped get this project to this point. #NoA #onward @WellEx_ISU
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