📢EXCITING NEWS! Our Director Julie D Henry has been elected president of Australasian Society for Philosophy & Psychology. Huge congratulations!

Great to see research being funded to address oral health inequity in aged care! Congrats to Loc Do & team, inc Dr Kristiana Ludlow Dr Nicole Stormon & The QLD MIND Project's Matthew Nangle & Julie D Henry for 1.4M #MRFF Dementia, Ageing & Aged Care Mission grant: researchers.uq.edu.au/research-proje…

New paper out now! Research by Roger Gamble Julie D Henry @socialneuro finds that empathy moderates the negative relationship between #cognitiveload & #prosocialbehaviour in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read now: nature.com/articles/s4159… #QLDMINDProject

New research from the #QLDMINDProject shows age-related decline in episodic foresight is not explained by subjective or objective sleep quality @Liv_Demichelis Sarah Grainger @_katemckay Julie D Henry nature.com/articles/s4159…

Exciting new paper out now by @Liv_Demichelis and the The QLD MIND Project team Sarah Grainger Julie D Henry & Ruth Hubbard looking at emotional regulation, social frailty and well-being!

A BIG Congratulation to @_katemckay on receiving the APS Psychology & Ageing Interest Group Elsie Harwood Award for best student research project in the field of ageing Australian Psychological Society. To learn more, visit research.psy.uq.edu.au/qldmindproject…

Did you know that ageism can become self-directed in late adulthood? We spoke with Julie D Henry to discuss her recent publication in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, which asks why don’t older adults’ reject negative ageist beliefs & embrace becoming older? Read more: research.psy.uq.edu.au/qldmindproject…

New paper out now! Research by The QLD MIND Project & colleagues provides novel evidence of age-related improvements in the capacity to self-initiate & apply episodic foresight in middle childhood. Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A huge congratulations to Olivia Demichelis who passed her PhD examination today!🥂🥳 Olivia’s PhD project focused on understanding the relationships between sleep and psychological function. Well done on this massive achievement, Olivia!!

We spoke with Dr. Sarah Coundouris about her recent publication in Gerontology, which asks whether older spouses’ financial decision making capacity is impacted not only by their own, but also their partner’s, level of cognitive functioning💵👫 Read more: research.psy.uq.edu.au/qldmindproject…

Today is EveryAGE Counts' Ageism Awareness Day- a reminder that ageism is still rife in the 🇦🇺community. Ageism is stereotyping, discrimination & mistreatment based solely on age, & has harmful impacts on many Australians. Visit everyagecounts.org.au to learn more.

New paper out now by the The QLD MIND Project team Julie D Henry Sarah Coundouris & Matthew Nangle discussing how eliminating ageism requires targeting not only health care systems & aged care professionals- but also older people themselves. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.…

👏 Congratulations to #UQPsychology's Dr Sarah Grainger who has been recognised as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science. These awards celebrate post-PhD researchers who've made significant strides in their fields. Sarah is the sole Australian on this year's list! #Psychology #UQ

This month we caught up with our Neuroimaging Lead Lena Oestreich. Lena's research has recently focused on the neural mechanisms underpinning psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy🧠Learn more about Lena & her research: research.psy.uq.edu.au/qldmindproject…

👋Today we said goodbye to our lovely intern Luisa visiting us from T. Dresden. It has been wonderful working with you the last three months, thanks for all your hard work. We will miss having you here!

Excited to share our latest publication by @LachlanCGreig, Sarah Coundouris, Julie D Henry & Nilufar Baghaei which provides the first test of whether visual biofeedback increases the benefits of self-compassion training. Read more: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38896949/#:~:t…

Huge congratulations to our very own @_katemckay for passing the PhD thesis examination with no revisions! 🎉👏 What an incredible achievement—well done, Kate!🥂🎓

New paper out now! Sarah Coundouris, Julie D Henry, & Lena Oestreich use UK Biobank data to explore the longitudinal relationship between frailty & sleep quality—two major concerns in late adulthood that impact health & pose a public burden. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/js…

📢Latest research from the #QLDMINDProject provides evidence for a new cognitive & affective empathy measure comprising real world footage of spontaneously experience emotion. Read more about EMOTE here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Julie D Henry Sarah Grainger

📢 New insights into #SocialFrailty & #aging. Our latest study identifies which aspects of #socialfrailty signal the greatest vulnerability in late adulthood. Subjective factors like #loneliness found to best predict psychological wellbeing 🌟 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.inps…