Brain Awareness Week 2023

“En resa genom hjärnan”

The Strategic Neuroscience Research Network (StratNeuro) at Karolinska Institutet celebrated the International Brain Awareness Week with an open symposium on Saturday 18 March 2023 at BioClinicum, campus Solna.

The Brain Awareness Week is a global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research, organized by the Dana Foundation.

Program

13:30-13:50 How the placebo effect works Karin Jensen

13:50-14:10 Unhappy in paradise - the diagnosis in our time Christian Rück

14:10-14:30 Schizophrenia and the building blocks of the brain Jens Hjerling-Leffler

15:30-15:50 The science behind loss of control Nitya Jayaram-Lindström

15:50-16:15 How does our brain perceive the gaze of others Arvid Guterstam


Pain Talks at Karolinska Institutet, December 9, 2019


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Pain Talks auditorium at Karolinska Institutet’s Biomedicum

Pain Talks auditorium at Karolinska Institutet’s Biomedicum

Filip Gedin and Granit Kastrati

Filip Gedin and Granit Kastrati

Karin Jensen, research group leader and founder of Pain Talks

Karin Jensen, research group leader and founder of Pain Talks

Camilla Svensson, KI

Camilla Svensson, KI

Eva Kosek, KI

Eva Kosek, KI

Kosek, Jensen, Svensson interviewed by Vetenskapsradion, Swedish Radio

Kosek, Jensen, Svensson interviewed by Vetenskapsradion, Swedish Radio

Rikard Wicksell, KI, Capio St Göran

Rikard Wicksell, KI, Capio St Göran

Ida Flink, Örebro University

Ida Flink, Örebro University

Keynote speaker Katja Wiech, University of Oxford

Keynote speaker Katja Wiech, University of Oxford

Moderator Erik Hedman-Lagerlöf

Moderator Erik Hedman-Lagerlöf

Jensen, Wicksell, Hedman-Lagerlöf closing the sessions

Jensen, Wicksell, Hedman-Lagerlöf closing the sessions