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Mats Lekander is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with a significant focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, general health professions, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics including stress responses and cortisol, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, mental health research topics, tryptophan and brain disorders, health, psychology, and well-being, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, and olfactory and sensory function studies.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Julie Lasselin, Mats J. Olsson, John Axelsson, Arnaud Tognetti, and Elin Lindsäter.

Publication venues where Mats Lekander has contributed notably include Brain Behavior and Immunity, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health, Frontiers in Psychology, and Evolution Medicine and Public Health.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Comparison of bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced sickness behavior in rodents and humans: Relevance for symptoms of anxiety and depression, 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Sick for science: experimental endotoxemia as a translational tool to develop and test new therapies for inflammation-associated depression, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Internet-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy as microlearning for chronic pain: A randomized controlled trial with 1-year follow-up, 2021, European Journal of Pain
  • Exhaustion disorder: scoping review of research on a recently introduced stress-related diagnosis, 2022, BJPsych Open
  • People expressing olfactory and visual cues of disease are less liked, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Mats Lekander has also authored a book titled The Inflamed Feeling, published in 2022 by Oxford University Press.

Best Publications

  • Evaluating the effectiveness of exposure and acceptance strategies to improve functioning and quality of life in longstanding pediatric pain--a randomized controlled trial.

    Rikard K. Wicksell;Lennart Melin;Mats Lekander;Gunnar L. Olsson;Gunnar L. Olsson

  • Less effective executive functioning after one night's sleep deprivation

    Jens P Nilsson;Marie Söderström;Andreas U Karlsson;Mats Lekander

  • The Scent of Disease Human Body Odor Contains an Early Chemosensory Cue of Sickness

    Mats J. Olsson;Johan N. Lundström;Johan N. Lundström;Johan N. Lundström;Bruce A. Kimball;Bruce A. Kimball;Amy R. Gordon;Amy R. Gordon

  • Brain glial activation in fibromyalgia - A multi-site positron emission tomography investigation.

    Daniel S. Albrecht;Anton Forsberg;Angelica Sandström;Angelica Sandström;Courtney Bergan

  • Predicting sleep quality from stress and prior sleep – A study of day-to-day covariation across six weeks

    Torbjörn Åkerstedt;Nicola Orsini;Helena Petersen;Helena Petersen;John Axelsson

  • Self-rated health is related to levels of circulating cytokines.

    Mats Lekander;Stig Elofsson;Ing-Marie Neve;Lars-Olof Hansson

  • The Psychological Inflexibility in Pain Scale (PIPS) – Statistical properties and model fit of an instrument to assess change processes in pain related disability

    Rikard K. Wicksell;Rikard K. Wicksell;Mats Lekander;Kimmo Sorjonen;Gunnar L. Olsson;Gunnar L. Olsson

  • The association between anxiety, traumatic stress, and obsessive-compulsive disorders and chronic inflammation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Megan E. Renna;Mia S. O'Toole;Phillip E. Spaeth;Mats Lekander;Mats Lekander

  • Cues of fatigue: effects of sleep deprivation on facial appearance.

    Tina Sundelin;Tina Sundelin;Mats Lekander;Mats Lekander;Göran Kecklund;Eus J. W. Van Someren;Eus J. W. Van Someren

  • Self-rated health and vital exhaustion, but not depression, is related to inflammation in women with coronary heart disease.

    Imre Janszky;Mats Lekander;May Blom;Anastasia Georgiades

  • Diurnal Variation of Circulating Interleukin-6 in Humans: A Meta-Analysis

    Gustav Nilsonne;Mats Lekander;Mats Lekander;Torbjörn Åkerstedt;Torbjörn Åkerstedt;John Axelsson;John Axelsson

  • Efficacy of a behavioral self-help treatment with or without therapist guidance for co-morbid and primary insomnia -a randomized controlled trial

    Susanna Jernelöv;Mats Lekander;Mats Lekander;Kerstin Blom;Sara Rydh

  • Beauty sleep: experimental study on the perceived health and attractiveness of sleep deprived people.

    John Axelsson;Tina Sundelin;Michael Ingre;Eus J W Van Someren

  • Sleepiness and Performance in Response to Repeated Sleep Restriction and Subsequent Recovery during Semi‐Laboratory Conditions

    John Axelsson;Göran Kecklund;Torbjörn Akerstedt;Paolo Donofrio

  • Behavioral and neural correlates to multisensory detection of sick humans

    Christina Regenbogen;John Axelsson;Julie Lasselin;Julie Lasselin;Danja K. Porada

  • Comparison of bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced sickness behavior in rodents and humans: Relevance for symptoms of anxiety and depression

    Julie Lasselin;Julie Lasselin;Manfred Schedlowski;Bianka Karshikoff;Harald Engler

  • A putative role for cytokines in the impaired appetite in depression

    Anna Andréasson;Lotta Arborelius;Charlotte Erlanson-Albertsson;Mats Lekander;Mats Lekander

  • Exposure-based cognitive–behavioural therapy via the internet and as bibliotherapy for somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder: randomised controlled trial

    Erik Hedman;Erland Axelsson;Erik Andersson;Mats Lekander

  • Lipopolysaccharide Alters Motivated Behavior in a Monetary Reward Task: a Randomized Trial.

    Julie Lasselin;Michael T Treadway;Tamara E Lacourt;Anne Soop

  • Psychological Flexibility as a Resilience Factor in Individuals With Chronic Pain.

    Charlotte Gentili;Charlotte Gentili;Jenny Rickardsson;Jenny Rickardsson;Vendela Zetterqvist;Vendela Zetterqvist;Vendela Zetterqvist;Laura E. Simons

  • Novel Biochemical Markers of Psychosocial Stress in Women

    Marie Åsberg;Åke Nygren;Rosario Leopardi;Gunnar Rylander

  • Inflammatory markers and heart rate variability in women with coronary heart disease

    I Janszky;Mats Ericson;M Lekander;M Blom

  • Changes in immune regulation in response to examination stress in atopic and healthy individuals

    C Olgart Höglund;J Axén;C Kemi;S Jernelöv

Frequent Co-Authors

Göran Kecklund
Göran Kecklund Stockholm University
Brjánn Ljótsson
Brjánn Ljótsson Karolinska Institute
Håkan Fischer
Håkan Fischer Stockholm University
Predrag Petrovic
Predrag Petrovic Karolinska Institute
Erik Hedman
Erik Hedman Karolinska Institute
Gerhard Andersson
Gerhard Andersson Linköping University
Christian Rück
Christian Rück Karolinska Institute
Claus Lamm
Claus Lamm University of Vienna
Lars-Göran Nilsson
Lars-Göran Nilsson Stockholm University
Arne Öhman
Arne Öhman Karolinska Institute

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