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Lisa Ekselius

Lisa Ekselius

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
64
Citations
14100
World Ranking
1117
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Lisa Ekselius is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and psychology, with significant contributions in clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health. Additional areas of expertise include general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, and pharmacology.

The main topics of their work cover a range of psychiatric and psychological conditions, including:

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Lisa Ekselius has published several papers notable for their focus on mental health and related disorders. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Labour market marginalisation in young adults diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a population-based longitudinal cohort study in Sweden," 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • "Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Medications and Work Disability and Mental Health Outcomes," 2024, JAMA Network Open
  • "Nonsyndromic Craniosynostosis Is Associated with Increased Risk for Psychiatric Disorders," 2020, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
  • "Neuroticism is positively associated with leptin/adiponectin ratio, leptin and IL-6 in young adults," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Staff experiences related to implementation of a recovery-oriented nursing programme in psychiatric inpatient care," 2022, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ekselius include:

  • Emma Björkenstam
  • Magnus Helgesson
  • Heidi Taipale
  • Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz
  • Klas Gustafsson

The most frequent venues for Lisa Ekselius's publications demonstrate a focus on journals related to psychiatry, psychology, and multidisciplinary health sciences. These venues include:

  • Psychological Medicine
  • Scientific Reports
  • Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
  • Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
  • JAMA Network Open

Best Publications

  • Internet-based self-help for depression : randomised controlled trial

    Gerhard Andersson;Jan Bergström;Fredrik Holländare;Per Carlbring

  • Excess mortality, causes of death and prognostic factors in anorexia nervosa

    Fotios C Papadopoulos;Anders Ekbom;Lena Brandt;Lisa Ekselius

  • Internet-based self-help with therapist feedback and in vivo group exposure for social phobia: A randomized controlled trial.

    Gerhard Andersson;Per Carlbring;Annelie Holmström;Elisabeth Sparthan

  • Treatment of panic disorder: live therapy vs. self-help via the Internet

    Per Carlbring;Elisabeth Nilsson-Ihrfelt;Johan Waara;Cecilia Kollenstam

  • Treatment of social phobia: randomised trial of internet-delivered cognitive-behavioural therapy with telephone support.

    Per Carlbring;Magdalena Gunnarsdóttir;Linda Hedensjö;Gerhard Andersson

  • Treatment of panic disorder via the internet: A randomized trial of a self-help program *

    Per Carlbring;Bengt E. Westling;Peter Ljungstrand;Lisa Ekselius

  • Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in infertile women and men undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment

    H. Volgsten;A. Skoog Svanberg;L. Ekselius;Ö. Lundkvist

  • Swedish universities Scales of Personality (SSP) : construction, internal consistency and normative data

    JP Gustavsson;H Bergman;G Edman;L Ekselius

  • Guided and unguided self-help for social anxiety disorder: randomised controlled trial.

    Tomas Furmark;Per Carlbring;Erik Hedman;Annika Sonnenstein

  • SCID II interviews and the SCID Screen questionnaire as diagnostic tools for personality disorders in DSM-III-R

    L Ekselius;E Lindström;L von Knorring;Owe Bodlund

  • Remote Treatment of Panic Disorder: A Randomized Trial of Internet-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy Supplemented With Telephone Calls

    Per Carlbring;Susanna Bohman;Sara Brunt;Monica Buhrman

  • Treatment of panic disorder via the Internet: a randomized trial of CBT vs. applied relaxation.

    Per Carlbring;Lisa Ekselius;Gerhard Andersson;Gerhard Andersson

  • Sex steroid-related genes and male-to-female transsexualism

    Susanne Henningsson;Lars Westberg;Staffan Nilsson;Bengt Lundström

  • Which instruments to support diagnosis of depression have sufficient accuracy? A systematic review.

    Agneta Pettersson;Kristina Bengtsson Boström;Petter Gustavsson;Lisa Ekselius

  • Major depression and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms following severe burn injury in relation to lifetime psychiatric morbidity.

    Johan Dyster-Aas;Mimmie Willebrand;Björn Wikehult;Bengt Gerdin

  • Social phobia subtypes in the general population revealed by cluster analysis

    Tomas Furmark;M. Tillfors;Håkan Stattin;L. Ekselius

  • Personality disorders in the general population: DSM-IV and ICD-10 defined prevalence as related to sociodemographic profile.

    Lisa Ekselius;Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Mats Fredrikson

  • Self-assessment of DSM-IV criteria for major depression in psychiatric out- and inpatients *

    Pär Svanborg;Lisa Ekselius

  • Axis V--Global Assessment of Functioning Scale. Evaluation of a self-report version.

    Owe Bodlund;Gunnar Kullgren;L Ekselius;E Lindström

  • Bright white light therapy in depression: A critical review of the evidence

    Björn Mårtensson;Agneta Pettersson;Lars Berglund;Lisa Ekselius

  • Sertraline versus paroxetine in major depression: clinical outcome after six months of continuous therapy.

    Anna Åberg-Wistedt;Hans Ågren;Lisa Ekselius;Finn Bengtsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Andersson
Gerhard Andersson Linköping University
Per Carlbring
Per Carlbring Stockholm University
L. von Knorring
L. von Knorring Uppsala University
Tomas Furmark
Tomas Furmark Uppsala University
Jonathan W. Kanter
Jonathan W. Kanter University of Washington
Maria Tillfors
Maria Tillfors Karlstad University
Viktor Kaldo
Viktor Kaldo Karolinska Institute
Erik Hedman
Erik Hedman Karolinska Institute
Anders Wall
Anders Wall Uppsala University
Elias Eriksson
Elias Eriksson University of Gothenburg

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