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Mats Lekander is a Professor of Health Psychology at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet. He also serves as the Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health, focusing on integrative approaches to health and well-being. With a doctoral degree from 1996 and docent status since 2007, his work spans over three decades.
His research focuses on psychoneuroimmunology, exploring interactions between the immune system, brain, and behavior. Key themes include stress mechanisms, sleep deprivation effects, and the behavioral immune system's role in pathogen avoidance. He investigates sickness behavior through experimental models like endotoxemia and studies psychosomatic conditions such as exhaustion disorder and chronic fatigue syndromes.
- Recent work examines motivational changes during inflammation, obesity's impact on reward systems, and the olfactory cues of sickness.
- He leads projects on stress-related disorders' diagnosis and treatment, including digital CBT interventions for adolescents with insomnia.
Major grants include investigations into interoceptive prediction errors, placebo responsiveness in anxiety, and kinship effects on disease avoidance behaviors. His studies often integrate clinical neuroscience with public health perspectives, addressing societal stress epidemics and occupational health trends.
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Grant-funded projects emphasize translational research bridging basic immunology with clinical applications, including ME/CFS and asthma's psychiatric connections.
