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Sleep, Cognition and Health” – Karolinska Institute

Sleep, Cognition and Health" - Karolinska Institute

Clinical Neuroscience
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Sleep, Cognition and Health"

Contact: John  
Axelsson
Position: Associate Professor
Address: Nobels väg 9, 17177
City: Stockholm
Country: Sweden
Phone: +46 8 52482461
Contact Email: Contact laboratory
Website: http://ki.se/en/cns/john-axelssons-research-group
RESEARCH DOMAIN: Basic Human
KEYWORDS: Learning, Memory, Cognition, Sleep and Body Functions (Cardio-Respiratory, Thermoregulation/Metabolism, Endocrine)

CURRENT ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Laboratory Description:

With our research we aim to increase the knowledge and awareness of how sleep in the modern life affects our biology, cognition and health. A main focus is to investigate how disturbed sleep affects us both acutely and chronically with respect to immune function, metabolism and subjective health. Another research area includes how disturbed sleep affects cognitive processes and how we interact with our peers. We are also pursuing research in how sickness and disease affects cognition and behaviour.

Our research is strongly interdisciplinary which is also reflected by our methodology, with methods ranging from the photographing of sleep deprived individuals to injections with (dead) bacteria to investigate brain activity with brain imaging techniques when someone is acutely sick.

Additional Descriptors, Keywords:

Shiftwork, Psychoneuroimmunology

KEY Publications of the Laboratory:

Axelsson J, Sundelin T, Olsson MJ, Axelsson C, Lasselin J & Lekander M. Identification of acutely sick people and facial cues of sickness, Proceedings Royal Society B 2018:285: 20172430, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2430 [PMID: 29298938]

Kecklund G & Axelsson J. Health consequences of shift work and insufficient sleep, BMJ 2016 Nov 1;355:i5210. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i5210 [PMID: 27803010]

Sundelin T, Lekander M, Kecklund G, van Someren E, Olsson A & Axelsson J. Cues of fatigue: Effects of sleep deprivation on facial appearance. Sleep. 2013 Sep 1;36(9):1355-60. doi: 10.5665/sleep.2964. [PMID: 23997369]

Karshikoff B. Lekander M. Soop A. Lindstedt F. Ingvar M, Kosek E. Hoglund CO. Axelsson J. Modality and sex differences in pain sensitivity during human endotoxemia, Brain Behavior and Immunity 2015 May;46:35-43. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2014.11.014. [PMID 25486090]

Axelsson J. Sundelin T. Ingre M. Olsson A. van Someren E & Lekander M. Beauty Sleep: Experimental study on the perceived health and attractiveness of sleep deprived people BMJ, 2010 Dec 15. 341:c6614, [PMID: 21156746]

Axelsson J, Ingre M, Åkerstedt T. & Holmbäck U. Effects of displaced sleep on testosterone. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 2005 Aug;90(8):4530-5. [PMID: 15914523]

COLLABORATIONS:

  • Title:  PhD Name:  Mats Lekander Position:  Institution:  Email: 
  • Title:  Name:  Göran Kecklund Position:  Institution:  Email: 
  • Title:  Name:  Predrag Petrovic Position:  Institution:  Email: