Department of Clinical Neuroscience

The University Management visited CNS as part of their tour to meet all of KI’s Departments.

During the visit, our Department Board and a few representatives from the organization had the opportunity to meet with President Annika Östman Wernerson, University Director Veronika Sundström, Vice-president Martin Bergö and Dean Carl Johan Sundberg.

People with OCD die on average nine years earlier than others. Now, a registry study spanning 40 years reveals the diseases and health risks behind these grim statistics.

Read more in Lorena Fernandez de la Cruz´s article in The Conversation. 

"How fair are we truly? And under which circumstances do we offer others a fair share of the cake? Neuroscientific research has started revealing answers. Our team used electric brain stimulation on 60 volunteers to figure out which parts of the brain were involved." 

Find out more in the article written by Patricia Christian from CNS Division of Psychology. 

In a study published in Nature Communications, Berglund et al. (Maja Jagodics' group), discovered an autophagy- and interleukin-34-dependent neuroprotective microglia population exclusive to the aged brain suggesting a potential treatment target for neuroinflammatory diseases.

Eye specialist and cancer researcher Gustav Stålhammar, together with researchers at St. Erik's Eye Hospital and the Karolinska Institutet, in an international collaboration, has developed a new and better classification of the aggressive eye cancer uveal melanoma. The study is published in the respected journal Ophthalmology.

Erik is director of studies at the department of psychology, he is a psychologist, PhD, docent in clinical psychology at the Karolinska Institutet and chairman of the Swedish Association of Clinical Psychologists.

This year's KLOK award goes to the Optometry program, which together with the St. Erik Eye Hospital has developed a clinical training clinic where students from several educational programs can broaden and deepen their knowledge in an interprofessional learning environment.The clinical training clinic is a collaboration between KI and St.Erik Eye Hospital where different professions together supervise students from a number of educational programs in an interprofessional learning environment.

Simon Jangard, psychologist and doctoral student at CNS where he divides his time between the Division of Psychology and the Centre for Psychiatry Research, is awarded this year's Jörgen Engel scholarship for an article in which he investigated a number of different aspects of social decision-making in young people with alcohol use syndrome.