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Kristoffer N T Månsson serves as Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience, leading the Månsson Lab with active collaborations across Stockholm University, Uppsala University, Dartmouth College, and Babeș-Bolyai University. His research program integrates neuroimaging, computational psychiatry, and clinical interventions to identify neural biomarkers for psychiatric treatment response.
Research focuses on neural variability as a predictor of treatment outcomes in anxiety and depression, with particular emphasis on rapid brain plasticity during cognitive behavioral therapy. His team employs multimodal approaches including fMRI, structural MRI, and peripheral biomarker analysis to investigate moment-to-moment neural dynamics in psychiatric disorders. Key projects include the TREVAR study on neural variability in anxiety/depression and EU-funded research on adolescent mental health in Romania.
Current funding sources include the Swedish Research Council (6 MSEK for placebo responsiveness studies), European Union (€1.3M for child/adolescent anxiety research), CIMED, and the Swedish Brain Foundation. His work demonstrates consistent translational impact, with multiple publications in Biological Psychiatry and Cerebral Cortex receiving significant media coverage in Scientific American and Swedish outlets.
- Somerfeld-Ziskind Research Award Honorable Mention (2023)
- StratNeuro Retreat Best Clinical/Translational Poster (2022)
Lab members include postdocs specializing in computational neuroscience (Tsikonofilos, Zika), research engineers (Manzouri), and PhD students from international institutions. The team actively collaborates with leading researchers including Tor Wager (Dartmouth), Tomas Furmark (Uppsala), and Mats Lekander (Stockholm University) on projects spanning neural plasticity, biomarker validation, and treatment optimization.
