How to Treat Mental Illness with Physical Activity - Dr Brendon Stubbs (Pt1) - Practitioner‘s Viewpoint Series

Physical Activity Researcher

Dr Brendon Stubbs is a clinical-academic physiotherapist with an interest in physical activity & mental health, the mind-body interface, healthy ageing and meta-research. He has a BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy, MSc in Neurological Rehabilitation & PhD in Pain Medicine & Rehabilitation.

He works locally and (inter)nationally with a fantastic group of collaborators with whom he has published over 500 academic papers in several leading journals across multiple scientific fields.

Dr Brendon Stubbs and Dr Simon Rosenbaum (UNSW, Australia) published the first evidence based book on the use of physical activity for the treatment of people with mental illness https://www.elsevier.com/books/exercise-based-interventions-for-mental-illness/stubbs/978-0-12-812605-9

In 2018, he was awarded the best research paper by a senior investigator from the Schizophrenia International Research Society (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920996416302419?via%3Dihub).

This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | The New Gold Standard for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Monitoring

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