Stockholm university

Research group The Andreasson lab

In this lab, the focus is primarily on mechanisms in diseases with a large impact on quality of life where knowledge about disease mechanisms are lacking, such as disorders of gut-brain interaction (e.g. irritable bowel syndrome, IBS), fatigue (ME/CFS, exhaustion disorder and post-covid syndrome) and chronic pain.

Woman with stomach pain in sofa. Polina Zimmerman från Pexels.

On a broader level we also want to increase knowledge regarding the interplay between disease mechanisms, disease symptoms, psychological factors and daily functioning as well as quality of life.

Group description

Our main research projects include: 

  • Inflammatory and nutritional markers and development of symptoms in persistent complicated fatigue – a longitudinal study
  • Inflammatory markers and chronic pain in children
  • The aetiology of IBS – a population based colonoscopy study

Our projects are supported by Swedish Research Council, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, Skandia and Folksam research funds, Ruth and Richard Julin’s fund and Nanna Svartz fund.

Member of AGIRA (Australian Gastrointestinal Research Alliance).

Group members, presentation

Mike Kemani, Lic. Psychologist, PhD, Head of Behavioral Medicine Section, Medical Unit, Medical Psychology, Karolinska University Hospital

My main research interests include behavioral medicine treatment development and evaluation, from a contextual behavioral science perspective, for patients with psychological suffering (behavioral, cognitive and emotional) in regard to their somatic disease. The primary foci being, refining our understanding of language processes in these interventions, as well as of the interaction between biological markers, symptoms and psychological factors, in regard to daily functioning and quality of life outcomes following aforementioned treatments (i.e. processes of change).

Therese Liljebo, Reg. Dietitian, Gastromottagningen City; PhD Student, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Solna

Therese´s PhD project investigates nutrition treatment with fermentable oligo-di- monosaccharides and polyols (FODMAPs) for adult patients with Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and how the FODMAP diet affects gastrointestinal symptoms and quality of life including fatigue. The project also investigated the correlation between diet intake, nutritional status and symptom burden in Myalgic encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and the comorbidity between IBS and ME/CFS.

William Hedley Thompson, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Applied IT, Division of Cognition & Communication, University of Gothenburg

My research themes include cognitive neuroscience, metascience, and network theory.

Group members

Group managers

Anna Andreasson

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology
Anna Andreasson Foto: Henrik Dunér

Members

Mike Kemani

PhD, Lic. Psychologist, Head of Behavioral Medicine Section

Medical Unit, Medical Psychology, Karolinska University Hospital

Therese Liljebo

Licensed dietician, PhD Student

Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Solna

William Hedley Thompson

Senior Lecturer

Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg

Research projects

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