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Mats Fredrikson

Mats Fredrikson

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30889
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National Ranking
245

Overview

Mats Fredrikson is a researcher affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden. Their work primarily focuses on medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, with a significant emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience. Other subfields include cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, behavioral neuroscience, and social psychology.

The scientist's research covers a range of key topics related to anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional areas of study include memory and neural mechanisms, mental health research topics, stress responses and cortisol, cardiac imaging and diagnostics, acute myocardial infarction research, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Recent publications by Mats Fredrikson include:

  • "Dopamine and fear memory formation in the human amygdala", 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Higher- and lower-order personality traits and cluster subtypes in social anxiety disorder", 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Expectancy effects on serotonin and dopamine transporters during SSRI treatment of social anxiety disorder: a randomized clinical trial", 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Imagery-induced negative affect, social touch and frontal EEG power band activity", 2020, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
  • "Decrease in amygdala activity during repeated exposure to spider images predicts avoidance behavior in spider fearful individuals", 2020, Translational Psychiatry

They have contributed multiple works to highly specialized journals. The most frequent publication venues for their research are Translational Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), Molecular Psychiatry, and PLoS ONE.

Collaborations form a notable part of their academic profile. Frequent co-authors include Johannes Björkstrand, Andreas Frick, Fredrik Åhs, Olof Hjorth, and Tomas Furmark.

Best Publications

  • A meta-analysis of heart rate variability and neuroimaging studies: implications for heart rate variability as a marker of stress and health.

    Julian F. Thayer;Julian F. Thayer;Fredrik Åhs;Mats Fredrikson;John J. Sollers

  • Fibrosis stage is the strongest predictor for disease-specific mortality in NAFLD after up to 33 years of follow-up.

    Mattias Ekstedt;Hannes Hagström;Patrik Nasr;Mats Fredrikson

  • Trauma exposure and post‐traumatic stress disorder in the general population

    Örjan Frans;Per-Arne Rimmö;Lars Åberg;Lars Åberg;Mats Fredrikson

  • Gender and age differences in the prevalence of specific fears and phobias

    Mats Fredrikson;Peter Annas;HÅkan Fischer;Gustav Wik

  • Common Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow in Patients With Social Phobia Treated With Citalopram or Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

    Tomas Furmark;Maria Tillfors;Ina Marteinsdottir;Håkan Fischer

  • Stress on and off the job as related to sex and occupational status in white‐collar workers

    Marianne Frankenhaeuser;Ulf Lundberg;Mats Fredrikson;Bo Melin

  • Social phobia in the general population: Prevalence and sociodemographic profile.

    Tomas Furmark;Maria Tillfors;PO Everz;I Marteinsdottir

  • Cardiovascular Responses to Behavioral Stress and Hypertension: a Meta-Analytic Review

    Mats Fredrikson;Karen A. Matthews

  • Cerebral blood flow in subjects with social phobia during stressful speaking tasks: a PET study.

    Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Ina Marteinsdottir;Håkan Fischer

  • Disruption of Reconsolidation Erases a Fear Memory Trace in the Human Amygdala

    Thomas Agren;Jonas Engman;Andreas Frick;Johannes Björkstrand

  • Sensed presence and mystical experiences are predicted by suggestibility, not by the application of transcranial weak complex magnetic fields.

    Pehr Granqvist;Mats Fredrikson;Patrik Unge;Andrea Hagenfeldt

  • Serotonin transporter polymorphism related to amygdala excitability and symptom severity in patients with social phobia

    Tomas Furmark;Maria Tillfors;Maria Tillfors;Håkan Garpenstrand;Ina Marteinsdottir

  • Neurofunctional correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder: a PET symptom provocation study

    Anna Pissiota;Örjan Frans;Manuel Fernandez;Lars von Knorring

  • Cerebral blood flow during anticipation of public speaking in social phobia: a PET study.

    Maria Tillfors;Tomas Furmark;Ina Marteinsdottir;Mats Fredrikson

  • The premise of equipotentiality in human classical conditioning: Conditioned electrodermal responses to potentially phobic stimuli.

    Arne Ohman;Mats Fredrikson;Kenneth Hugdahl;Per-Arne Rimmo

  • A Link between Serotonin-Related Gene Polymorphisms, Amygdala Activity, and Placebo-Induced Relief from Social Anxiety

    Tomas Furmark;Lieuwe Appel;Susanne Henningsson;Fredrik Åhs

  • Cerebral Blood Flow Changes After Treatment of Social Phobia with the Neurokinin-1 Antagonist GR205171, Citalopram, or Placebo

    Tomas Furmark;Lieuwe Appel;Åsa Michelgård;Kurt Wahlstedt

  • 160 h of chemical-looping combustion in a 10 kW reactor system with a NiO-based oxygen carrier

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  • A twin study of the genetics of fear conditioning.

    John M. Hettema;Peter Annas;Michael C. Neale;Kenneth S. Kendler

  • Probiotic lactobacilli in breast milk and infant stool in relation to oral intake during the first year of life.

    Thomas R Abrahamsson;Gabriela Sinkiewicz;Ted Jakobsson;Mats Fredrikson

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomas Furmark
Tomas Furmark Uppsala University
Håkan Fischer
Håkan Fischer Stockholm University
Clas Linnman
Clas Linnman Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Bengt Långström
Bengt Långström Uppsala University
Gunnar Steineck
Gunnar Steineck University of Gothenburg
Maria Tillfors
Maria Tillfors Karlstad University
Peter Söderkvist
Peter Söderkvist Linköping University
Elna-Marie Larsson
Elna-Marie Larsson Uppsala University
Emilio Merlo Pich
Emilio Merlo Pich GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
Elias Eriksson
Elias Eriksson University of Gothenburg

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