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Åsa Petersén has been assigned to one of the six positions as senior clinical researcher in psychiatry advertised by the Swedish Research Council.The prestigious position is for three years with a possible extension for three more years, and includes a start-up package of one million Swedish kronor (around 100 000 euro) during the first year.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/asa-petersen-assigned-position-psychiatry - 2025-10-01
Deniz Kirik and Åsa Petersén have been selected as the Allan and Maria Myers International visiting fellows for 2009. As part of this, they are invited to visit the Florey Neuroscience Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The Fellowship provides support for leading international researchers to visit Australia, with the objectives of enhancing Australian exposure to cutting edge res
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/melbourne-2010 - 2025-10-01
Åsa Petersén håller föredrag om psykiatriska symtom vid Huntingtons sjukdom i Oslo den 10 april 2010 på 30-års jubileumsdagen för "Landsforeningen for Huntington sykdom" i Norge.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/asa-petersen-haller-foredrag-i-oslo - 2025-10-01
Dr. Olivier Piguet is a NHMRC fellow and senior lecturer at University of New South Wales and Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute in Sydney, Australia. He works on frontotemporal dementia and will give a talk Wednesday May 12 at 16.30 in the GK-salen with the title: Facts, feelings and fiction: Clinical considerations on frontotemporal dementia.
The International Basal Ganglia Society Tenth (IBAGS X) triennial meeting will take place June 20-24, 2010 at Ocean Place Resort, Long Branch, New Jersey. Petersén will give a talk in the session Non-Motor Sequela in Basal Ganglia Diseases with the title: Metabolic disturbances and neuroendocrine changes in Huntington's disease.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-gives-talk-ibags-x-meeting-new-jersey-june-2010 - 2025-10-01
Associate Professor Anthony Hannan runs a research group on Huntington's disease at the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne, Australia. He will give a talk Monday July 12 at 12.00 in the seminar room at D11 with the title: Molecular mediators and environmental modulators of behavioural endophenotypes in Huntington's disease transgenic mice.
We would like to welcome Nathalie Nilsson! She has a Bachelor degree in Biomedical science from Lund University and has just finished her first year at the Master program in Biomedical science at Lund University. She has received a stipend from the Medical Faculty and will do a research project in TNU during the summer of 2010.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/summer-student - 2025-10-01
Dr Stephan von Hörsten, Professor for Experimental Biomedicine at Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany, visits TNU and TRAINS September 7. He will give a talk on the title "Very early onset and intervention in a pre-HD-syndrome in transgenic mouse and rat models of Huntington´s disease" 12.00-13.00 in the seminar room at BMC D11.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/professor-stephan-von-horsten-germany-visits-tnu-and-trains - 2025-10-01
TNU members Sofia Hult, Rana Soylu, Sanaz Gabery and co-member Niclas Hagen presented their research as posters at the European HD Network (EHDN) meeting in Prague, September 3-5, 2010. Åsa Petersén was elected a member of the Scientific and Bioethics Advisory Committee (SBAC) in the EHDN.
Forskningens dag (the Research day) is arranged every year by the Medical Faculty at Lund University and Region Skåne. The theme for 2010 is depression and mania. The audience is the general public. Petersen presents her research on hypothalamic changes and depression in HD. The titel is: The hypothalamus - the thermostat of emotions.Read more about Petersén's research in Vetenskap & Hälsa (Scienc
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-presents-research-day-2-311-2010-lund-and-malmo - 2025-10-01
A FENS-IBRO Partially Supported School on Metabolic aspects of chronic brain diseases will take place July 20 - 26 2011 in Reisensburg/Günzburg, Germany. Petersén is part of the organizers and the faculty. The school is designed to attract PhD students and postdocs in neurosciences, medicine, metabolism and related fields that wish to explore the new opportunities in this field.Application Deadlin
TNU-members Sofia Hult, Rana Soylu and Åsa Petersén will attend the SfN Meeting in San Diego Nov 13-17, 2010. Posters will be presented by Hult and Soylu.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-hult-and-soylu-present-posters-sfn-san-diego - 2025-10-01
Dr Umar M Sajjad starts a postdoctoral fellowship and Sanaz Gabery continues as a PhD student in TNU in February 2011. fjsjfsjDr Umar M. Sajjad has done a PhD on Huntington's disease with Dr Andreas Wyttenbach at the University of Southampton, UK., and now joins TNU as a postdoctoral fellow. Sanaz Gabery has performed several projects including her master thesis in TNU and now continues to do her
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/new-post-doc-former-masters-student-becomes-phd-student - 2025-10-01
The book "Vi som skulle bli gamla tillsammans" ("We were meant to grow old together") has recently been published by Natur & Kultur. Its main author Petra Lilja Andersson, Lecturer at the Medical Faculty in Lund, has followed a young couple before and after the woman takes a pre-symptomatic genetic test for HD. The book illustrates the challenges involved in genetic testing and living with HD in t
Huntingtons sjukdom är ärftlig och obotlig. Hjärnan skadas gradvis vad gäller både motorik och psyke. Mest märkbara symtom är ofrivilliga rörelser – därför kallas sjukdomen också ”danssjukan”. Åsa Petersén är expert på vad som orsakar de psykiatriska problemen vid Huntingtons sjukdom. Hon intervjuades nyligen i SvD.Läs intervjun i Svenska Dagbladet
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/asa-petersen-i-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-10-01
The paper entitled Mutant huntingtin causes metabolic imbalance by disruption of hypothalamic neurocircuits from TNU with Rana Soylu and Sofia Hult as shared first authors was published in the April Issue of the prestigious Cell Metabolism. The news got widespread attention both in the Swedish media such as the Swedish Radio News program Ekot, the Swedish News Program Sydnytt and Rapport, and the
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-publishes-cell-metabolism - 2025-10-01
The paper Mutant huntingtin causes metabolic imbalance by disruption of hypothalamic neurocircuits by Hult S, Soylu R, Björklund T, Belgardt BF, Mauer J, Brüning JC, Kirik D and Petersén A, published in Cell Metabolism 13(4) 428-439, 2011, was selected Article of the Month at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University.Link to the article
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnus-paper-selected-article-month-may-2011-medical-faculty - 2025-10-01
This week, Sanaz Gabery and Sofia Hult, PhD students in TNU, give talks about their research at an educational camp for HD families in Sweden held June 27-July 1 in Grebbestad on the Swedish west coast. They also present their latest studies on hypothalamic changes in HD as posters at the 2011 Björntorp symposium in Gothenburg June 29-July 1, organised by the European Association for the study of
TNU members Gabery, Hult, Sajjad and Soylu participate in a FENS-IBRO partially supported school on Metabolic aspects of chronic brain diseases on July 20 - 26 2011 at the Reisensburg castle in Günzburg, Germany. Petersén is part of the organizing committee but could not travel due to pregnancy.
The paper entitled Early changes in the hypothalamic region in prodromal Huntington disease revealed by MRI analysis from TNU, published in Neurobiology of Disease, was selected article of the month in the Newsletter from the European HD Network (EHDN).Read the Newsletter here: ehdn_news_july_2011.pdf Link to the research article
