Anders Björklund

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award
• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
• 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
• 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1989 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Best Publications

• Dopamine neuron systems in the brain: an update.

  Anders Björklund;Stephen Bruce Dunnett

  2252
  Citations

• Lewy bodies in grafted neurons in subjects with Parkinson's disease suggest host-to-graft disease propagation.

  Jia-Yi Li;Elisabet Englund;Janice L Holton;Denis Soulet

  2089
  Citations

• Continuous infusion of nerve growth factor prevents basal forebrain neuronal death after fimbria fornix transection

  Lawrence R. Williams;Silvio Varon;Gary M. Peterson;Klas Wictorin

  1615
  Citations

• Cell replacement therapies for central nervous system disorders.

  Anders Björklund;Olle Lindvall

  1261
  Citations

• Amelioration of cholinergic neuron atrophy and spatial memory impairment in aged rats by nerve growth factor.

  W. Fischer;K. Wictorin;A. Björklund;L. R. Williams

  1241
  Citations

• Reconstruction of the nigrostriatal dopamine pathway by intracerebral nigral transplants

  Anders Bjorklund;Ulf Stenevi

  1166
  Citations

• Intergenerational Income Mobility in Sweden Compared to the United States

  Anders Björklund;Markus Jäntti

  921
  Citations

• Direct conversion of human fibroblasts to dopaminergic neurons

  Ulrich Pfisterer;Agnete Kirkeby;Olof Torper;James Wood

  905
  Citations

• Dopamine release from nigral transplants visualized in vivo in a Parkinson's patient

  Paola Piccini;David J. Brooks;Anders Björklund;Roger N. Gunn

  892
  Citations

• Forelimb akinesia in the rat Parkinson model: differential effects of dopamine agonists and nigral transplants as assessed by a new stepping test

  M Olsson;G Nikkhah;C Bentlage;A Bjorklund

  880
  Citations

• Parkinson-like neurodegeneration induced by targeted overexpression of alpha-synuclein in the nigrostriatal system.

  Deniz Kirik;Carl Rosenblad;Corinna Burger;Cecilia Lundberg

  868
  Citations

• TFEB-mediated autophagy rescues midbrain dopamine neurons from α-synuclein toxicity

  Mickael Decressac;Bengt Mattsson;Pia Weikop;Martin Lundblad

  843
  Citations

• Characterization of behavioral and neurodegenerative changes following partial lesions of the nigrostriatal dopamine system induced by intrastriatal 6-hydroxydopamine in the rat

  Deniz Kirik;Carl Rosenblad;Anders Björklund

  786
  Citations

• Site-Specific Migration and Neuronal Differentiation of Human Neural Progenitor Cells after Transplantation in the Adult Rat Brain

  Rosemary A. Fricker;Melissa K. Carpenter;Christian Winkler;Corinne Greco

  757
  Citations

• Spatial Learning and Motor Deficits in Aged Rats

  Fred H. Gage;Stephen B. Dunnett;Anders Björklund

  748
  Citations

• Mesencephalic dopamine neurons projecting to neocortex.

  Olle Lindvall;Olle Lindvall;Anders Björklund;Anders Björklund;Robert Y. Moore;Robert Y. Moore;Ulf Stenevi;Ulf Stenevi

  729
  Citations

• Prospects for new restorative and neuroprotective treatments in Parkinson's disease

  Stephen B. Dunnett;Anders Björklund

  729
  Citations

• L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in the rat is associated with striatal overexpression of prodynorphin- and glutamic acid decarboxylase mRNA.

  M A Cenci;C S Lee;A Björklund

  727
  Citations

• Dopamine released from 5-HT terminals is the cause of L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in parkinsonian rats.

  Manolo Carta;Thomas Carlsson;Deniz Kirik;Anders Björklund

  723
  Citations

• Transplantation of central and peripheral monoamine neurons to the adult rat brain: Techniques and conditions for survival

  U Stenevi;A Björklund;N A Svendgaard

  709
  Citations