Psychology
The Psychology division is active in psychology research in the intersection of biomedicine at the Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital. Currently, 10 research groups work within the division (see below). We are also responsible for many courses at Karolinska Institutet at both undergraduate and graduate level. In the autumn of 2007 a five-year psychology program started at the Karolinska Institute, for which the division holds responsibility.
Professor Bo Melin is Head of Division and Professor Mats Olsson is Deputy Head. PhD Jenny Wikström is Program Director/Director of Studies for the Psychology program. Associate professor Lotta Arborelius is Director of Studies for courses given by the division under other programs.
The division has a relatively short history with origins in a research professorship of experimental psychology that the Medical Research Council awarded Marianne Frankenhaeuser 1969 and was later on transferred to Karolinska Institutet in 1980. After Professor Frankenhaeusers retirement Arne Öhman took over the professorship in 1993, when the division became part of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience. The division has in recent years expanded significantly in both research and education during a period of five years and has now five professors and 56 employees.
Research areas and Research group leaders
| Research area | Research group |
|---|---|
| Child and adolescent psychiatry | Pia Enebrink |
| Cognitive epidemiology | Bo Melin |
| Cognitive processes and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder | Lisa Thorell |
| Differential psychology and health | Petter Gustavsson |
| Emotion and social learning | Andreas Olsson |
| Human olfaction | Mats J. Olsson |
| Psychoneuroimmunology | Mats Lekander |
| Sleep, cognition and health | John Axelsson |
| Stress and recovery | Torbjörn Åkerstedt |
| Womens health | Aila Collins |
