Yvonne Forsell

Yvonne Forsell

Professor Emeritus
Visiting address: Solnavägen 1 E, 11365 Stockholm
Postal address: K9 Global folkhälsa, K9 GPH Möller, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

Research

  • *Psychiatric epidemiological studies and intervention studies*.
    1. Regassa- RCT with internet based cognitive behavioural therapy, physical
    exercise and treatment as usual for mild to moderate depression in primary
    care. It was a collaboration between 6 Regions in Sweden, Lunds university
    and KI. 946 patients were included.
    2. Founder of the PART study- a longitudinal population based study aiming at
    exploring risk and protective factors for mental health.
    3. Since 2015 the *Fitforlife* study which aims at increasing functioning
    (biological, cognitive and social) in persons affected by psychosis by
    using physical exercise. Affected persons are educated as physical exercise
    trainers and run sessions for fellow patients. Currently 3 Regions in Sweden
    and 16 units are involved.
    Collaboration with Center of Molecular Medicine with the aim of looking at
    inflammatory markers and epigenetics.

Teaching

  • Teaching at Applied Epidmeiology II: Main teaching areas; epidemiology,
    psychiatric disorders, physical exercise.

Articles

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Employments

  • Professor Emeritus, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-2026
  • Specialist, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-2024
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2020-2022
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2012-2020
  • Professor, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2011-2012

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 1999

Supervision

  • Supervision to doctoral degree

    • Buse Bektash, 2024-
    • Miranda Stiernborg, Exploring the gut microbiome in ADHD and schizophrenia spectrum disorder, 2024
    • Linghua Kong, Prenatal metabolic risks for offspring neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, 2021
    • Liu Yang, Exploring the gut-brain axis in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, 2020
    • Yabin Wei, Novel mechanisms in depression: Focus on telomere biology and epigenetic regulation, 2015
    • Andres Fandino Losada, Social environment and genetics as determinants of depression occurrence and its chronicity, 2013
    • Philippe Melas, Depression: Genetic, epigenetic and DNA biobank studies, 2012
    • Louise Sjöholm, Gene-environmental factors in depressive disorders with a focus on circadian genes, 2010

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