Marcus Persson

Marcus Persson is a Lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University. He is actively involved in clinical research and teaching, with a focus on psychiatric treatments and adverse event analysis. His work is supported by the Movahed Psychiatric Research Group.

Research interests include:

• Developing accelerated treatment protocols for depression
• Comparative efficacy of pharmacotherapy vs. electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
• Adverse event profiling in psychiatric interventions
• Application of neuropsychopharmacology in mood disorders
• Clinical trial design for psychiatric therapies
• Neurostimulation techniques like intermittent theta-burst therapy

His recent publications address non-inferiority trial frameworks (KetECT) and accelerated treatment protocols (SATIS), with implications for major depressive disorder management. Collaborations span neuroscience and clinical psychiatry, reflected in his fingerprint areas.