Angelica Sandström

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About me

I received my PhD degree in 2021 under the supervision of Professor Eva Kosek in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Pain and Neuroinflammation Imaging Laboratory at A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School.

Research

My work has altogether focused on advancing our understanding of neural mechanisms of pain processing and inflammation in patients with chronic pain. Through the use of state-of-the art multimodal neuroimaging techniques such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and 7T magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), I aim to assess brain mechanisms in human chronic pain from multiple perspectives, in a manner that cannot be achieved through a single modality alone.

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Article: PAIN. 2023;164(8):1828-1840

Fibromyalgia patients with elevated levels of anti-satellite glia cell immunoglobulin G antibodies present with more severe symptoms.

Krock E; Morado-Urbina CE; Menezes J; Hunt MA; Sandström A; Kadetoff D; Tour J; Verma V; Kultima K; Haglund L; Meloto CB; Diatchenko L; Kosek E; Svensson CI
Article: NEUROBIOLOGY OF PAIN. 2023;13:100114

The effects of a 15-week physical exercise intervention on pain modulation in fibromyalgia: Increased pain-related processing within the cortico-striatal- occipital networks, but no improvement of exercise-induced hypoalgesia.

Löfgren M; Sandström A; Bileviciute-Ljungar I; Mannerkorpi K; Gerdle B; Ernberg M; Fransson P; Kosek E
Article: PAIN. 2022;163(3):538-547

Distinct aberrations in cerebral pain processing differentiating patients with fibromyalgia from patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Sandström A; Ellerbrock I; Löfgren M; Altawil R; Bileviciute-Ljungar I; Lampa J; Kosek E
Article: PAIN. 2022;163(2):274-286

The translocator protein gene is associated with endogenous pain modulation and the balance between glutamate and γ-aminobutyric acid in fibromyalgia and healthy subjects: a multimodal neuroimaging study.

Fanton S; Sandström A; Tour J; Kadetoff D; Schalling M; Jensen KB; Sitnikov R; Ellerbrock I; Kosek E
Article: PLOS ONE. 2022;17(11):e0277427

The OPRM1 gene and interactions with the 5-HT1a gene regulate conditioned pain modulation in fibromyalgia patients and healthy controls.

Tour J; Sandström A; Kadetoff D; Schalling M; Kosek E
Article: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION. 2021;131(13):144201

Passive transfer of fibromyalgia symptoms from patients to mice.

Goebel A; Krock E; Gentry C; Israel MR; Jurczak A; Urbina CM; Sandor K; Vastani N; Maurer M; Cuhadar U; Sensi S; Nomura Y; Menezes J; Baharpoor A; Brieskorn L; Sandström A; Tour J; Kadetoff D; Haglund L; Kosek E; Bevan S; Svensson CI; Andersson DA
Article: MOLECULAR BRAIN. 2021;14(1):81

Serotonergic gene-to-gene interaction is associated with mood and GABA concentrations but not with pain-related cerebral processing in fibromyalgia subjects and healthy controls.

Ellerbrock I; Sandström A; Tour J; Fanton S; Kadetoff D; Schalling M; Jensen KB; Sitnikov R; Kosek E
Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN. 2021;25(2):398-414

Polymorphisms of the μ-opioid receptor gene influence cerebral pain processing in fibromyalgia.

Ellerbrock I; Sandström A; Tour J; Kadetoff D; Schalling M; Jensen KB; Kosek E
Article: PAIN. 2020;161(9):2079-2088

Neural correlates of conditioned pain responses in fibromyalgia subjects indicate preferential formation of new pain associations rather than extinction of irrelevant ones.

Sandström A; Ellerbrock I; Tour J; Kadetoff D; Jensen KB; Kosek E
Article: BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY. 2019;81:272-279

Altered cerebral pain processing of noxious stimuli from inflamed joints in rheumatoid arthritis: An event-related fMRI study.

Sandström A; Ellerbrock I; Jensen KB; Martinsen S; Altawil R; Hakeberg P; Fransson P; Lampa J; Kosek E
Article: BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY. 2019;75:72-83

Brain glial activation in fibromyalgia - A multi-site positron emission tomography investigation.

Albrecht DS; Forsberg A; Sandström A; Bergan C; Kadetoff D; Protsenko E; Lampa J; Lee YC; Höglund CO; Catana C; Cervenka S; Akeju O; Lekander M; Cohen G; Halldin C; Taylor N; Kim M; Hooker JM; Edwards RR; Napadow V; Kosek E; Loggia ML

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KI thesis / dissertation: 2021

Multimodal neuroimaging of pain and inflammation in the central nervous system in patients with fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis

Sandström, Angelica

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Affiliated to Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2021-2024

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Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2021

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