Upcoming events at the Osher Center
In a collaboration with Gustavsberg’s University Primary Care Center, the Osher Center holds regular seminars on themes of integrative health and primary care.
The seminars were previously part of the Division of Psychology's regular lunch seminars. However, starting from spring 2024, they will be held as a separate seminar series. The seminars are open to researchers, clinicians, and students and can be attended via Zoom
Schedule, Autumn 2026
August 11, 13.00 to 14.45
Seminar: Refining Concepts in Inflammation-Associated Depression: The Need to Consider Symptom Heterogeneity, Brain–Immune Interactions, and Context
Guest speaker: Iris Ka-Yi Chat, PhD, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
August 17, 10.00 to 11.15
Seminar: From rats to humans: How social connection shapes health, immunity, and the brain
Guest speaker: Estherina Trachtenberg, PhD, University of Cambridge / Department of Clinical Neuroscience, KI.
August 31, 13.00
Half-time seminar: Ludwig Franke Föyen
"Stress-Related Disorders and Fatigue: Clinical Characterization, Treatment and Data-Driven Modeling”
November 4, 13.30 to 15.00
Seminar: “How psychological, biological and social context shape psychoactive drug effects and experiences”
Guest speaker: Marie Eikemo, Researcher and PI in Health Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo. Senior Researcher at the Department of Research and Development, Division of Emergencies and Critical Care, Oslo University Hospital, Norway. Marie Eikemo - Department of Psychology
November 12, 9.00
Doctoral Dissertation: Victoria Sennerstam
“Treatment and Characterization of Stress-Related Disorders in Primary Care”
Watch out for updates and feel welcome to join!
Previous Seminars
Schedule, Spring 2026
April 1, 13.30 to 15.30
Seminar: Obstacles to patient-centered care
Guest Speaker: Helene Bodegård | Karolinska Institutet, Family Medicine specialist, doctoral student. Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME).
May 20, 13.30 to 15.30
Seminar: Rethinking Persistent Symptoms: Predictive Processing, Brain-Body Interactions, and Emerging Treatments
Guest Speaker: Silje Endresen Reme - Department of Psychology. Professor. Psychology specialist. Health- Development and Personality Psychology. Department of Psychology. Oslo. University of Oslo.
- April 9. 13.30 to 15.30 Comparator: An AI Tool for Multimodal Analysis of Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication Dynamics Guest speaker: Lennart Högman. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.
June 4. 13.30 to 15.30 Dualism and Functional Neurological Disorders Guest speaker: Myrto Sklivanioti, MD, PhD, Specialist in psychiatry. Department of clinical neuroscience, KI.
- 27/3. Interoception. Micah Allen,Professor, Dr. Primary affiliation: Department of Clinical Medicine Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus university. And Francesca Fardo. Associate Professor, Associate Professor. Primary affiliation: Department of Clinical Medicine Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University.
- 17/3. Dissertation, Lina Hanssons; "Scare or care? – How immunological processes shape perception of sickness-relevant stimuli in humans"
- 22/5. Social Psychoneuroimmunology. Keely A. Muscatell, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 27/11. The history of THX: how a controversial cancer drug challenged conventional medicine. Guest speaker: Maria Josephson. PhD, Administrative Officer at Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME).
- 18/1. Internet-based treatment for stress-related disorders - preliminary results from a randomized controlled trial. Victoria Sennerstam, doktorand vid Gustavsbergs vårdcentral och institutionen för klinisk neurovetenskap, Karolinska Institutet.
- 22/3. ”Successes and challenges in the integration of psychology in primary care “. Kersti Ejeby, MD, head of Gustavsberg’s primary care unit.
- 10/5. "Primary care in Region Stockholm from a psychologist's perspective: status and some recent developments of relevance for mental health education and research". Erik Hedman-Lagerlöf; professor at Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet.
- 26/10. Exhaustion disorder: An update regarding the evidence base and treatment strategies. Elin Lindsäter, PhD at Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet.
- 30/11. The dreadful consequences of mind-body dualism. Mats Lekander, professor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet and Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.