Caroline Gurvich

Caroline Gurvich is an Associate Professor and clinical neuropsychologist at Monash University, serving as Deputy Director of the HER Centre Australia and Head of the 'Cognition and Hormones Group'. Her research focuses on understanding how hormones influence cognitive functioning in women's mental health, including premenstrual mood disorders, menopause-related 'brain fog', and the role of sex hormones in cognitive aging. She combines neuropsychological assessments with eye movement research to characterize cognition. Gurvich has over 120 publications and has received awards such as the Swinburne Neuroimaging Institute Early Career Research Grant and the Australian Museum Eureka Prize nomination. She supervises PhD candidates and leads projects on cognitive interventions for women's mental health, ADHD in women, and the MothersMatter Intervention for pregnant women with mental illness.

Research Interests:

• Sex hormones and their impact on cognition across the lifespan
• Eye movement profiles in neuropsychiatric disorders
• Early life adversity and stress effects on adult cognition
• Cognitive training interventions for midlife and menopause-related cognitive decline

Key Projects:

• ADHD in Women (2025-2026)
• Support for the Li Transformative Hub for Eating Disorders (2024-2027)
• Theta Burst Stimulation for Alzheimer's Disease (2023-2028)

Grants & Awards:

• NHMRC project grants and early career fellowship
• Rebecca Cooper Foundation grants
• Advancing Women in Research awards (2011, 2018)

Media Engagement:

• Podcasts: 'Navigating Neurodiversity', 'Hormones and Mental Health'
• Webinars on menopause cognition and workplace impacts

Labs/Teams: Leads the Cognition and Hormones Group and collaborates internationally on topics like hormonal therapies for depression and neuroimaging studies in anorexia nervosa.