Johan Lundin KlebergAssociate Professor

About me

Publications (as per 2023-02-07)

1. Kleberg, J.L., Willfors, C., Björlin Avdic, H., Riby, D., Galazka, M.A, Guath, M., Nordgren, A., & Strannegård, C. (in press). Social feedback enhances learning in Williams syndrome. Scientific Reports. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-022-26055-8
2. Thorup, E., Kleberg, J.L., Portugal, A.M, & Falck-Ytter, T. (in press). Social attention: Developmental foundations and relevance for autism spectrum disorder. Biological Psychiatry.
3. Guath, M., Willfors, C., Björlin Avdic, H., Nordgren, A., & Kleberg, J.L. (in press). Pupillary response in reward processing in adults with major depressive disorder in remission. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
4. Guath, M.*, Kleberg, J.L.*, Weis, J., ... & Frick, A. (2022). Pupil dilation during negative prediction errors is related to brain choline concentration and depressive symptoms in adolescents . Behavioural Brain Research. (*Shared first authorship)
5. Kleberg, J.L., Riby, D.M., Fawcett, C., Björlin Avdic, H., Frick, M.A., Brocki, K.C., Högström, J., Serlachius, E., Nordgren, A., & Willfors, C. (accepted for publication). Williams syndrome: reduced orienting to other’s eyes in a hypersocial phenotype. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
6. Söderström, H., Brocki, K., Kleberg, J.L., Martinsson, U., & Ljungman (2022). Neurocognitive functions before and after radiotherapy in pediatric brain tumor survivors. Pediatric Neurology.
7. Frick, M.A., Halldner, L., Brocki, K.C., & Kleberg, J.L. (2023). Disrupted attention to other’s eyes is linked to symptoms of ADHD in childhood. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 54, 973–984. DOI: 10.1007/s10578-022-01316-9
8. Jónsdottir, L., Neufeld, J., Falck-Ytter, T., & Kleberg, J.L. (2023). Autistic Children Quickly Orient Away from Both Eyes and Mouths During Face Observation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53, 495–502. DOI: 10.1007/s10803-021-05378-x
9. Willfors, C., Riby, D. M., van der Poll, M., Ekholm, K., Avdic Björlin, H., Kleberg, J. L.*, & Nordgren, A*. (2021). Williams syndrome: on the role of intellectual abilities in anxiety. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 16(1), 1-10. (* Shared senior author)
10. Kleberg, J.L., Frick, M.A., & Brocki, K.C. (2021). Increased pupil dilation to happy faces in children with hyperactive/impulsive symptoms of ADHD. Development and Psychopathology, 33(3), 767-777.
11. Kleberg, J.L., Högström, J., Sundström, K., Frick, A., & Serlachius, E. (2021). Delayed gaze shifts away from others’ eyes in children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 278, 280-287.
12. Kleberg, J.L., Löwenberg, E.B., Lau, J.Y.F., Serlachius, E., & Högström, J. (2021). Restricted visual scanpaths during emotion recognition in childhood social anxiety disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12:658171. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.658171
13. Espinosa, L.*, Kleberg, J.L.*, Hofvander, B., Berggren, S., Bölte, S., & Olsson, A. (2020). Enhanced social learning of threat in adults with autism. Molecular Autism, 11(1), 1-9. (* Joint first authorship)
14. Löwenberg, E.B., Aili, F., Serlachius, E., Högström, J., & Kleberg, J.L. (2020). Reduced left visual field bias for faces in adolescents with social anxiety disorder. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 25(6), 421-434.
15. Kleberg, J.L., Frick, M.A., & Brocki, K.C. (2020). Can auditory warning signals normalize eye movements in children with ADHD? European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 29(12), 1635-1644. DOI: 10.1007/s00787-020-01484-w
16. Högström, J., Nordh, M., Larson Lindal, M., Taylor, E., Serlachius, E., & Kleberg, J.L. (2019). Visual attention to emotional faces in adolescents with social anxiety disorder receiving cognitive behavioral therapy. PloS ONE, 14(11), e0225603. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225603
17. Kleberg, J.L., Hanqvist, C., Serlachius, E., & Högström, J. (2019). Pupil dilation to emotional expressions in adolescent social anxiety disorder is related to treatment outcome. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 65, 26-33. DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2019.04.006
18. Kleberg, J.L., Nyström, P., Bölte, S., & Falck-Ytter, T. (2019). Sex Differences in Social Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(4), 1342-1351. DOI: 10.1007/s10803-018-3799-z
19. Kleberg, J.L., del Bianco, T., & Falck-Ytter, T. (2019). How Infants’ arousal influences their visual search. Child Development, 90(4), 1413-1423.
20. Kleberg, J.L., Högström, J., Nord, M., Bölte, S., Serlachius, E., & Falck-Ytter, T. (2017). Autistic Traits and Symptoms of Social Anxiety are Differentially Related to Attention to Others’ Eyes in Social Anxiety Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(12), 3814-3821.
21. Kleberg, J.L., Thorup, E., & Falck‐Ytter, T. (2017). Visual orienting in children with autism: Hyper‐responsiveness to human eyes presented after a brief alerting audio‐signal, but hyporesponsiveness to eyes presented without sound. Autism Research, 10(2), 246-250.
22. Thorup, E., Kleberg, J.L., & Falck-Ytter, T. (2017). Gaze Following in Children with Autism: Do High Interest Objects Boost Performance? Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 47(3), 626-635.
23. Kleberg, J.L., Thorup, E., & Falck‐Ytter, T. (2017). Reduced visual disengagement but intact phasic alerting in young children with autism. Autism Research, 10(3), 539-545.
24. Kleberg, J.L., Selbing, I., Lundqvist, D., Hofvander, B., & Olsson, A. (2015). Spontaneous eye movements and trait empathy predict vicarious learning of fear. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 98(3), 577-583.
25. Kleberg, J.L. (2015). Resting state arousal and functional connectivity in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Neurophysiology, 113(9), 3035-3037.
26. Kleberg, J.L., Lindberg, C., & Winblad, S. (2014). Facial memory deficits in myotonic dystrophy type 1. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 130(5), 312-318.

Research projects

Ongoing

Completed

Attention and decision making in children with developmental psychopathology

This research project investigates the role of altered reward processing in three developmental psychiatric disorders: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).

Assessing ADHD

ADHD is one of the most prevalent psychiatric conditions, consuming a large proportion of resources in psychiatric care, often accompanied by long waiting lists to receive proper assessment.