Dr Haeme Park
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Associate Professor Justine Gatt is Director of the Centre for Wellbeing, Resilience and Recovery, and Head of the Gatt Resilience Group at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales. She obtained her PhD in Psychology at the University of Sydney in December 2005 (conferred 2006). A/Prof Gatt currently leads several national and international projects in resilience and wellbeing. Her current projects include: (a) a longitudinal study of healthy adult twins from her TWIN-E Emotional Wellbeing Study followed after 10 and 12 years to determine changes in brain structure/function, neurocognitive performance and mental health outcomes over time that predict a risk versus resilience trajectory; (b) a project focusing on the impact of Instagram use on mental health and wellbeing in adolescents and young adults; (c) a project focusing on the impact of stuttering and its treatment on the wellbeing of children and their parents; (d) several clinical studies focusing on the impact of mental health treatment on wellbeing in youth and adults undergoing treatment; (e) the development of wellbeing programs in the workplace including healthcare workers; (f) online smartphone wellness technologies; and (g) wellbeing in children. A/Prof Gatt has been successful in obtaining several competitive research fellowships and grants, and has an outstanding track record in publication. Her work has been recognised by multiple awards including the Worldwide University Network (WUN) Success Story awarded to her WUN Resilience Research Group for Exceptional Levels of Achievement (2019), the Commonwealth Health Ministers Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research (2014), and the NHMRC Excellence Award for Top Ranked CDF Applicant (2014). A/Prof Gatt also serves as an Editorial Member for several scientific journals.
2023 May
Negative association between anterior insula activation and resilience during sustained attention: an fMRI twin study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721005262
2022 Dec
Positive lifestyle behaviours and emotional health factors are associated with low back pain resilience
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-022-07404-7
2022 Dec
Wellbeing and brain structure: A comprehensive phenotypic and genetic study of image‐derived phenotypes in the UK Biobank
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25993
2022 Jul
TWIN-10: protocol for a 10-year longitudinal twin study of the neuroscience of mental well-being and resilience
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058918
2022, 21 Apr
A Web-Based Well-being Program for Health Care Workers (Thrive): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.2196/34005
2022, 19 Mar
Phenotypic and genetic analysis of a wellbeing factor score in the UK Biobank and the impact of childhood maltreatment and psychiatric illness
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-01874-5
2022 Mar
Six-Week Online Multi-component Positive Psychology Intervention Improves Subjective Wellbeing in Young Adults
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-021-00449-3
2022 Jan
Emotional face processing correlates with depression/anxiety symptoms but not wellbeing in non-clinical adults: An event-related potential study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.11.038
2021, 03 Oct
A Web-Based Well-being Program for Health Care Workers (Thrive): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.34005
2021 Feb
The impact of online brain training exercises on experiences of depression, anxiety and emotional wellbeing in a twin sample
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.12.054
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