Niklas Långström

Niklas Långström

Adjunct Professor
Visiting address: CPF, Norra Stationsgatan 69, plan 7, 11364 Stockholm
Postal address: K8 Klinisk neurovetenskap, K8 CPF Högström, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • Professor (adj) and senior consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry, Region Stockholm 20250401-
    Professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, Uppsala University, 2016-2018
    Professor of psychiatric epidemiology, KI, 2010-2016

Research

  • I study developmental pathways, correlates and outcomes of mental disorders primarily in children and young adults. I am particularly interested in causal mechanisms, risk assessment, and the prevention of interpersonal, including sexual, violence.

    I have a longstanding interest in extending our knowledge of mechanisms behind the development of serious norm-breaking or sexually harmful or abusive behaviours. And in improving multimodal selective and indicated interventions to support disadvantaged and at-risk children and youth in avoiding adverse outcomes.

    I also work with projects studying incidence, risk factors and outcomes for people in inpatient child and youth psychiatric care (on a ward) with or without coercion. Or in compulsory social care (National Board of Institutional Care) or custodial sanctions due to serious crime (closed youth care or [youth] prison).

    Last, I am interested in optimally correct and informative systematic reviews of the effectiveness of medical and psychosocial interventions against psychiatric disorders, and violent and sexually harmful or abusive behaviour.

    At Karolinska Institutet, I work together with:
    Clinical researchers at the Dept of Clinical Neuroscience/Centre for Psychiatry Research.
    Epidemiologists and biostatisticians at the Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics where I was previously (2010-2016) employed as a professor.
    I also collaborate with psychology and psychiatry professionals at:
    Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, Canada
    The University of Southern Denmark
    Tampere University, Finland
    Dept of Forensic Psychiatry, Oxford University, UK

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Grants

Employments

  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-2029

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska institutet, 2002
  • Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 1999
  • University Medical Degree, Karolinska Institutet, 1992

Supervision

  • Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Twin and family studies on the development of cognitive and externalizing problems.
  • Vide Ohlsson Gotby, Register-based studies of sex steroid hormones and psychiatric disorders.
  • Amir Sariaslan, Exploring the causal nature of neighborhood influences on violent criminality, substance misuse and psychiatric morbidity.

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