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Felice N. Jacka

Felice N. Jacka

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Medicine

D-Index
89
Citations
30551
World Ranking
12657
National Ranking
412

Overview

Felice N. Jacka is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia and specializes in the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Clinical Psychology, Molecular Biology, and Biological Psychiatry.

Their research spans several main topics including Diet and metabolism studies, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Gut microbiota and health, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Eating Disorders and Behaviors, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, and Tryptophan and brain disorders.

Felice N. Jacka has contributed to prominent publication venues such as Molecular Psychiatry, Nutrients, Journal of Affective Disorders, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Preprints.org.

Frequent co-authors of Felice N. Jacka include Wolfgang Marx, Michael Berk, Adrienne O'Neil, Amy Loughman, and Mohammadreza Mohebbi.

Notable recent papers published by or associated with Felice N. Jacka include:

  • A meta-review of "lifestyle psychiatry": the role of exercise, smoking, diet and sleep in the prevention and treatment of mental disorders (2020, World Psychiatry)
  • Ultraprocessed food and chronic noncommunicable diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 43 observational studies (2020, Obesity Reviews)
  • Diet and depression: exploring the biological mechanisms of action (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Ultra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes: umbrella review of epidemiological meta-analyses (2024, BMJ)
  • A systematic review of gut microbiota composition in observational studies of major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia (2022, Molecular Psychiatry)

Best Publications

  • So depression is an inflammatory disease, but where does the inflammation come from?

    Michael Berk;Lana Williams;Lana Williams;Felice N Jacka;Felice N Jacka;Adrienne O'Neil;Adrienne O'Neil

  • A randomised controlled trial of dietary improvement for adults with major depression (the ‘SMILES’ trial)

    Felice N Jacka;Adrienne O'Neil;Adrienne O'Neil;Rachelle Opie;Rachelle Opie;Catherine Itsiopoulos

  • Association of Western and Traditional Diets With Depression and Anxiety in Women

    Felice N. Jacka;Julie A. Pasco;Arnstein Mykletun;Lana J. Williams

  • A meta-review of "lifestyle psychiatry": the role of exercise, smoking, diet and sleep in the prevention and treatment of mental disorders.

    Joseph Firth;Joseph Firth;Marco Solmi;Robyn E Wootton;Davy Vancampfort

  • Relationship Between Diet and Mental Health in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

    Adrienne O’Neil;Shae E. Quirk;Siobhan Housden;Sharon L. Brennan

  • Nutritional medicine as mainstream in psychiatry.

    Jerome Sarris;Jerome Sarris;Alan C Logan;Tasnime N Akbaraly;Tasnime N Akbaraly;G. Paul Amminger

  • Healthy dietary indices and risk of depressive outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

    Camille Lassale;G. David Batty;Amaria Baghdadli;Felice Jacka

  • Diet and depression: exploring the biological mechanisms of action

    Wolfgang Marx;Melissa Lane;Meghan Hockey;Hajara Aslam

  • The Effects of Dietary Improvement on Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

    Joseph Firth;Wolfgang Marx;Sarah Dash;Rebekah Carney

  • Oxidative & nitrosative stress in depression: why so much stress?

    Steven Moylan;Steven Moylan;Michael Berk;Olivia Dean;Yuval Samuni

  • A prospective study of diet quality and mental health in adolescents.

    Felice N. Jacka;Felice N. Jacka;Peter J. Kremer;Michael Berk;Andrea M. de Silva-Sanigorski

  • The gut microbiome and diet in psychiatry: focus on depression.

    Sarah Dash;Gerard Clarke;Michael Berk;Felice N. Jacka

  • Ultraprocessed food and chronic noncommunicable diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 43 observational studies

    Melissa M Lane;Jessica A Davis;Sally Beattie;Clara Gómez-Donoso;Clara Gómez-Donoso

  • The association between diet quality, dietary patterns and depression in adults: a systematic review

    Shae E Quirk;Lana Williams;Lana Williams;Adrienne O'Neil;Adrienne O'Neil;Julie Anne Pasco;Julie Anne Pasco

  • The association between habitual diet quality and the common mental disorders in community-dwelling adults: the Hordaland Health study.

    Felice N. Jacka;Arnstein Mykletun;Michael Berk;Ingvar Bjelland

  • A review of vulnerability and risks for schizophrenia: Beyond the two hit hypothesis

    Justin Davis;Harris Eyre;Felice N Jacka;Seetal Dodd

  • Association of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein with de novo major depression

    Julie A. Pasco;Geoffrey C. Nicholson;Lana J. Williams;Felice N. Jacka

  • Nutritional psychiatry: the present state of the evidence.

    Wolfgang Marx;Genevieve Moseley;Michael Berk;Felice Jacka

  • The association between fruit and vegetable consumption and mental health disorders: Evidence from five waves of a national survey of Canadians

    Seanna E. McMartin;Felice N. Jacka;Felice N. Jacka;Ian Colman

  • RelationshipBetweenDietandMentalHealthinChildren andAdolescents:ASystematicReview

    Adrienne O'Neil;Shae E. Quirk;Sharon L. Brennan;Lana J. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Berk
Michael Berk Deakin University
Julie A. Pasco
Julie A. Pasco Deakin University
Seetal Dodd
Seetal Dodd Deakin University
Mark A. Kotowicz
Mark A. Kotowicz University of Melbourne
Geoffrey C. Nicholson
Geoffrey C. Nicholson University of Queensland
Olivia M. Dean
Olivia M. Dean Deakin University
Arnstein Mykletun
Arnstein Mykletun Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Boyd Swinburn
Boyd Swinburn University of Auckland
Steven Allender
Steven Allender Deakin University
Joseph Firth
Joseph Firth University of Manchester

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