Dr. Marlies Alvarenga
Senior Lecturer, Psychology
Dr Marlies Alvarenga has a research background in cardiac neurosciences and women’s health. Dr Alvarenga’s key focus is in psychosomatic medicine, specifically cardiac neurosciences, where she has explored the nexus between mental illness and increased risk of heart disease.
Marlies’ recent work has focused on aspects of secondary prevention of heart disease and the development of psychocardiology measures, as well as the impact of stress on women’s cardiac health.
Marlies is a member of the Australian Psychological Society and the College of Clinical Psychologists. She is also an Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) approved supervisor.
Marlies is a Lecturer in psychology, based at the Berwick campus of Federation University Australia.
Does coping style mediate the relationship between knowledge and psychosocial outcomes in women with atrial fibrillation?
Development of a short form of the Cardiac Distress Inventory
Buffering the Fear of COVID-19: Social Connectedness Mediates the Relationship between Fear of COVID-19 and Psychological Wellbeing
Editorial: Psychocardiology then and now – the genesis of a discipline
Measurement of Noradrenaline and Serotonin Metabolites With Internal Jugular Vein Sampling: An Indicator of Brain Monoamine Turnover in Depressive Illness and Panic Disorder
The cardiac distress inventory: A new measure of psychosocial distress associated with an acute cardiac event
Unraveling the Complexity of Cardiac Distress: A Study of Prevalence and Severity
Emerging approaches to the treatment of depression in patients with cardiovascular disease
Enhancing the appeal of cardiac rehabilitation for women: Development and pilot testing of a women-only yoga cardiac rehabilitation programme
The adrenal medulla in cardiovascular medicine: An untold story
Anxiety and Depression After a Cardiac Event: Prevalence and Predictors
Introduction: Patients who are anxious or depressed after an acute cardiac event are at increased...
Mood disorders
Protocol for the development and validation of a measure of persistent psychological and emotional distress in cardiac patients: The Cardiac Distress Inventory
Introduction Distress is experienced by the majority of cardiac patients, yet no cardiac-specific...
Association Between Gender and Quality of Life Post Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Victorian Cardiac Outcomes Registry (VCOR) Study
What is cardiac distress and how should we measure it?
What role does personality play in cardiovascular disease?
Anxiety and cardiovascular disease: Epidemiology and proposed mechanisms
Anxiety disorders tend to be highly prevalent in heart disease, particularly amongst patients...
Handbook of Psychocardiology
Preface- Handbook of Psychocardiology
This handbook brings together the full weight of contemporary evidence bearing on what is now...
Psychocardiology now and where the evidence promises to take us in the future: A summing up
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Psychogenesis and heart disease now: The thinking heart in action
The termPsychocardiology has achieved prominence quite recently to describe both a field of...
The psychosocial impact of syncope
Syncope is a transient and abrupt loss of consciousness and postural tone due to a transient...
Treatment of anxiety within the practice of cardiology
This chapter will provide a definition of anxiety and describe methods for assessing it within...
Panic Disorder
The chapter focuses on sympathetic nervous activity and epinephrine secretion rates and...
Kindergarten attendance may reduce developmental impairments in children: Results from the Bavarian Pre-School Morbidity Survey
Background: The relative risks and benefits of children attending kindergarten or pre-school...
Extension and replication of an internet-based treatment program for panic disorder
Interpretation of ambiguous interoceptive stimuli in panic disorder and nonclinical panic
Serum lipids and their relationships with hostility and angry affect and behaviors in men