Prof. Bernhard Baune (PhD, MD, MPH, FRANZCP) is a Specialist Psychiatrist, clinician, researcher and holds the position of Chair of Psychiatry and Head of the Discipline of Psychiatry at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Prof. Baune s integrative research approach in psychiatry is largely at the interface between clinical research, psychiatric neuroscience and molecular psychiatry, stimulating research on the etiology and pathophysiology of major psychiatric disorders, Neuropsychiatry, Preventive and Translational Psychiatry. Areas of major research interest include depression, psychiatric-medical comorbidity, the neurobiology of mood disorders and the immunology of major psychiatric disorders. Dr Phillip J. Tully is a psychologist and early career fellow in the Discipline of Medicine, The University of Adelaide. He is a postdoctoral fellow of Bordeaux University (France) and Freiburg University (Germany) and holds the title of honorary clinical psychologist in Cardiac Surgery, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide. He has provided clinical psychology supports to hundreds of cardiac patients and extensively researched the neuropsychiatric correlates of heart diseases.

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Examines the bidirectional relationship between depression and cerebro- and cardiovascular diseases

Describes clinical treatment, early identification, and potential for prevention

Considers important comorbidities of depression that may influence cerebro- and cardiovascular disease outcomes

Explains long-term functional consequences of psychiatric and cerebro- and cardiovascular comorbidity

Introduction.- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease and Depression.- The risk relationship between depression and CVD during aging.- Mechanisms linking depression to cardiovascular disease: what do epidemiological studies tell us?.- Anxiety and the effects on cardiovascular disease.- A Clinical Cardiology Perspective of Psychocardiology.- The validity of vascular depression as a diagnostic construct.- Mental stress-induced myocardial infarction.- Neuropsychological Impairment of Patients with Depression.- Neuroimaging of risk factors of depression and cardiovascular disease.- Heart Rate Variability, Affective Disorders and Health.- Arterial Stiffness in the depression and cardiovascular comorbidity.- Depression and markers of arteriosclerosis - cross-sectional analyses of the baseline examination of the BiDirect Cohort study.- Metabolic-Inflammation Aspects of Depression and Cardiovascular Disease.- Genetic overlap between depression and cardiovascular disease.- Emotional word processing in cardiovascular disease, depression, and depression subtypes.- Nutrition and depression - current evidence on the association of dietary patterns with depression and its subtypes.- Cardiometabolic Risk and Monitoring in Psychiatric Disorders.- Monitoring for metabolic dysfunction and cardiovascular disease in bipolar disorder: a shared illness process approach.- Assessment and Psychological interventions in depression comorbid with cardiovascular disease.- Moving beyond mood: is it time to recommend cognitive training for depression in older adults?.- The Internet and Mobile technology: a platform for behavior change and intervention in depression and CVDs.- Pharmacological treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases and depression comorbidity: understanding epidemiological, clinical trial evidence and the biological underpinnings.- Anti-inflammatory agents for the treatment of depression in the light of comorbid cardiovascular disease.- The use of complementary alternative and integrative medicine (CAIM) for treatment and prevention of late-life depression and cardiovascular disease.- An integrative psychosomatic approach to the treatment of to the treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease.- Prevention of CVD in depression.- Screening for depression in coronary heart disease: detection of early disease states.