Kristoffer N. T. Månsson

Kristoffer N. T. Månsson is an Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet with a 6-year Assistant Professor position. He leads the Neuroimage Affective Treatment and Individual Variability (NATIV) Lab and collaborates with institutions including Dartmouth College, Max Planck Institute, and Babeș-Bolyai University. His roles include Senior Research Specialist (on leave), Study Director at Karolinska's Psychiatry Research School, and KIRI Fellow.

His research focuses on

• Neural variability as a predictive biomarker for psychiatric treatment outcomes
• Neuroplasticity in anxiety and depression
• Integration of biological measures in mental health studies
• Computational psychiatry and machine learning applications
• Neuroimaging of oxytocin effects and inflammation

Recent work explores rapid brain morphological changes and personalized CBT approaches.

Article Trends (2022-2025): Analyzed neural variability for treatment prediction, oxytocin's neural effects, and inflammation-brain interactions. Key methodologies include fMRI, structural MRI, and machine learning across anxiety, depression, and insomnia studies.

Scientific Awards

• Somerfeld-Ziskind Research Award (2023 honorable mention)
• Aaron T Beck Scholarship (2013)
• Best Talk at Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting (2020)
• KIRI Fellowship (2022)

Education & Career: PhD in Clinical Psychology (2016) from Linköping University. Postdoctoral fellowships at Max Planck Institute (2019-2021) and Stockholm University (2017-2019). Current grants from Swedish Research Council, EU, and CIMED fund studies on CBT, neural variability, and child mental health.