Felice Nellie Jacka OAM is an Australian academic, founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research. She is a professor of Nutritional Psychiatry and the director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University.
Jacka focused her research work in the field of nutritional psychiatry, establishing diet as a risk factor and treatment target for common mental disorders. In 2017, she led a trial showing that an improved diet could treat major depression, finding that healthier eating habits can result in a 30% reduced risk of depression.
Articles in the Australian press about Jacka's studies include The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald and ABC News. With over 260 publications, she is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher for all years between 2020 and 2023, ranking her in the top 0.1% of publishing scientists worldwide.
In 2021 Jacka was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her service to nutritional psychiatry research.
Selected publications
- Challenges and priorities for researching the gut microbiota in individuals living with anorexia nervosa, 2023.
- Nutrition and bipolar disorder: a systematic review, 2022.
- Assessing the feasibility of an m-Health intervention for changing diet quality and mood in individuals with depression: the My Food & Mood program, 2021.
- Nutrition-based interventions for mood disorders, 2020.
- Fermented foods, the gut and mental health: a mechanistic overview with implications for depression and anxiety, 2020
- A modified Mediterranean dietary intervention for adults with major depression: Dietary protocol and feasibility data from the SMILES trial, 2018.
- Dietary recommendations for the prevention of depression, 2015.
References
- "Food and Mood Centre | We are a team of world-class researchers from various backgrounds, studying the food-mood relationship at various levels, from microbiology to public health". Food and Mood Centre. 2019-01-07. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- "World-first trial shows improving diet can treat major depression". www.deakin.edu.au. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- Fleming, Amy (2019-03-18). "Nutritional psychiatry: can you eat yourself happier?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- Fleming, Amy (2019-03-18). "Nutritional psychiatry: can you eat yourself happier?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- Berry, Sarah (2019-10-09). "Diet could improve depression symptoms in three weeks, study finds". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- "Mediterranean diet can help in fight against depression: study". ABC News. 2017-01-30. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- "Web of Science". www.webofscience.com. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- "Felice Jacka". Food and Mood Centre. 2019-07-09. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
- Swannell, Cate (2021-06-14). "Queen's Birthday honorees". Medical Journal of Australia. 214 (111). ISSN 0025-729X.
- West, Madeline L.; Hart, Susan; Loughman, Amy; Jacka, Felice N.; Staudacher, Heidi M.; Abbaspour, Afrouz; Phillipou, Andrea; Ruusunen, Anu; Rocks, Tetyana (November 2023). "Challenges and priorities for researching the gut microbiota in individuals living with anorexia nervosa". International Journal of Eating Disorders. 56 (11): 2001–2011. doi:10.1002/eat.24033. ISSN 0276-3478.
- Gabriel, Fernanda C.; Oliveira, Manoela; Bruna De M. Martella; Berk, Michael; Brietzke, Elisa; Jacka, Felice N.; Lafer, Beny (2023-07-03). "Nutrition and bipolar disorder: a systematic review". Nutritional Neuroscience. 26 (7): 637–651. doi:10.1080/1028415X.2022.2077031. ISSN 1028-415X.
- Young, Claire L.; Mohebbi, Mohammadreza; Staudacher, Heidi; Berk, Michael; Jacka, Felice N.; O’Neil, Adrienne (2021-04-03). "Assessing the feasibility of an m-Health intervention for changing diet quality and mood in individuals with depression: the My Food & Mood program". International Review of Psychiatry. 33 (3): 266–279. doi:10.1080/09540261.2020.1854193. ISSN 0954-0261.
- Young, Claire L.; Mohebbi, Mohammadreza; Staudacher, Heidi; Berk, Michael; Jacka, Felice N.; O’Neil, Adrienne (2021-04-03). "Assessing the feasibility of an m-Health intervention for changing diet quality and mood in individuals with depression: the My Food & Mood program". International Review of Psychiatry. 33 (3): 266–279. doi:10.1080/09540261.2020.1854193. ISSN 0954-0261.
- Aslam, Hajara; Green, Jessica; Jacka, Felice N.; Collier, Fiona; Berk, Michael; Pasco, Julie; Dawson, Samantha L. (2020-09-01). "Fermented foods, the gut and mental health: a mechanistic overview with implications for depression and anxiety". Nutritional Neuroscience. 23 (9): 659–671. doi:10.1080/1028415X.2018.1544332. ISSN 1028-415X.
- Opie, Rachelle S.; O'Neil, Adrienne; Jacka, Felice N.; Pizzinga, Josephine; Itsiopoulos, Catherine (2018-08-09). "A modified Mediterranean dietary intervention for adults with major depression: Dietary protocol and feasibility data from the SMILES trial". Nutritional Neuroscience. 21 (7): 487–501. doi:10.1080/1028415X.2017.1312841. ISSN 1028-415X.
- Opie, R.S.; Itsiopoulos, C.; Parletta, N.; Sanchez-Villegas, A.; Akbaraly, T.N.; Ruusunen, A.; Jacka, F.N. (2017-03-16). "Dietary recommendations for the prevention of depression". Nutritional Neuroscience. 20 (3): 161–171. doi:10.1179/1476830515Y.0000000043. ISSN 1028-415X.