Dr Katie Marwick is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist with NHS Lothian, specialising in Liaison Psychiatry and Perinatal Psychiatry. Her research aims to find out how mental health is influenced by reproductive transitions, namely the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and the menopause.
Katie Marwick on a new UK Biobank study which suggests that the two years either side of the final menstrual period represent a time of small increased risk for new onset bipolar and major depressive disorder.