Christian’s new book, Ett liv värt att leva (A Life Worth Living), will be published in January. The book takes us through the theme suicide through different perspectives and human stories. What can we learn from the existence of suicide?
🧠 🏋️♀️How can healthcare providers motivate individuals with depression, anxiety, and stress? Braining could be the answer!
Given the widely recognized benefits of physical exercise, a unique training program was initiated by Lina Martinsson, together with PhD student Åsa Anger, at Affektiva mottagningen Psykiatri Sydväst, Karolinska Huddinge. The program involves group exercise three times a week for three months, benefiting both patients and healthcare staff.
Braining reached over 700 patients aged 18-80 years during 2017-2022!
Read more about it here
Don’t miss the intriguing series on suicide hosted by Christian Rück and The Centre for psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet. Missed some? No worries, they’re all recorded.
Watch it here!
In this seminar, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry Seena Fazel from Oxford University gives a lecture on the topic “Can We Really Predict Suicide?” where he gives an overview of the latest evidence on suicide prediction using new methods.
The mental illness jar – A metaphor for how vulnerability to mental illness develops as an interaction between genetic and environmental factors, and the role of protective factors. 🥫
Postdoc Maria Bragesjö is currently working on two novel treatment formats for PTSD: intensive trauma focused treatment and digital prolonged exposure. These treatment formats have the potential to be more effective, cost-effective and tolerable for patients than existing treatments, while increasing accessibility for those who need help.
We recommend watching the documentary Samlarna by Linnea Widén on SVT. The film portrays people suffering from hoarding disorder. And be sure to keep an eye out for our beautiful hoarding experts Volen Ivanov and Sofia Jägholm.
🎄✨ Countdown to Christmas! We’re happy to announce Rücklab’s 24-Day Christmas Calendar! Starting today, join us in a festive journey as we unveil a new post every day leading up to Christmas.
Let’s start by introducing ourselves. Rücklab works in a wide range of areas of psychiatric research: OCD, suicide, fatigue, PTSD and precision psychiatry.
Yesterday, Max made an outstanding appearance on TV4 Efter fem talking about obsessive-compulsive disorder and the Bergen study. The Bergen 4-day treatment compares an intensive treatment format of four consecutive days of combined group and individual therapy with gold-standard weekly treatment.
Recently, you may have come across our research in your daily podcast feed.
In Beslutspodden, Lina Martinsson – research team leader and operations manager at Psykiatri Sydväst – visits and talks about her career as a reserarcher/clinician/manager. Lina runs the Braining project – physical activity in a clinical setting, involving both patients and clinicians.
We also noticed that our Bergen 4 day treatment non-inferiority RCT for OCD was mentioned in the Daddy Issues podcast a while ago. Julia Lyskova talks about her experience of being a participant in the study’s intensive treatment study arm. She describes her OCD-related problems and the extent to which they have affected her daily life and well-being. “I have thought that I have killed everyone I love”, Lyskova says in the podcast, summarizing what it can feel like to live with the disorder. She also describes her ambivalence about participating and approaching what she is afraid of, how much willpower is required to attend the treatment and the experience of improvement.
Take the time to listen to these two podcasts that bridge research and reality.
Click here to read more about Braining.
Click here to read mor about the Bergen 4-day treatment and the randomized controlled trial.
In the latest episode of KI’s podcast Medicinvetarna, Maria Bragesjö talks about her area of expertise post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
In the episode, she explains the difference between trauma as used in everyday speech and PTSD as a psychiatric diagnosis. Trauma in PTSD means that the person has been exposed to a threat, violence or accident that has caused fear for their life. In addition, the diagnosis includes criteria such as re-experiencing, avoidance and increased vigilance.
Listen to the episode here (in Swedish).
Maria’s current research at Rücklab
- Intensive treatment for PTSD (I-PE) – An RCT investigating the effect, speed of recovery, and cost-effectiveness of intensive treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), compared to gold-standard trauma focused CBT. Read more about the project here.
- Digital PE for PTSD – A feasibility study of internet-delivered prolonged exposure for patients with PTSD. Read more about the project here.
Rücklab - Psychiatry research at Karolinska Institutet 