Neurogenetics / Epidemiology
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As the most complex organ in the body, the brain offers a particular challenge to scientists. By studying the genetic architecture of diseases affecting the brain and spinal cord it is possible to reveal biological pathways involved in disease etiology.
Understanding the environmental factors associated with increased and decreased risk for disease allows scientists to develop interventions. By combining these areas -neurogenetics and epidemiology - researchers can effectively address the gene versus environment interaction.
The extensive healthcare registers, human tissue bio banks and the population based studies in Sweden offer a rich resource to this field.
Research groups
- Andrea Carmine Belin, Parkinson's disease: genetic factors
- Henrik Druid, forensic medicine
- Tomas Ekström, epigenetics
- Laura Fratiglioni, epidemiology of neurodegenerative diseases
- Caroline Graff, genetics of neurodegenerative diseases
- Linda Halldner Henriksson, predictors for neurodevelopmental disorders, ADHD
- Jan Hillert, genetics of multiple sclerosis
- Christina M. Hultman, etiology of psychiatric disorders
- Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg, pharmacogenetics
- Håkan Karlsson, molecular genetic studies of schizophrenia
- Henrik Larsson, gene-environmental interplay and psychiatric disorders
- Catharina Lavebratt, neurogenetics
- Paul Lichtenstein, genetic and environmental influences on health
- Niklas Långström, psychiatric epidemiology
- Ullakarin Nyberg, suicide, loss and consequences
- Lars Olson, regeneration, transplantation, Parkinson's disease
- Tomas Olsson, pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis
- Nancy Pedersen, genetic and environmental influences on diseases
- Fredrik Piehl, injury-induced inflammation and neurodegeneration
- Jonathan Prince, genotyping in Alzheimer's disease
- Martin Schalling, neurogenetics
- Lars Terenius, alcohol and drug dependence
