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September 2022
Johanna Mariegaard, research assistant in the NEAD Group, wins a poster prize at the Annual Research Day for Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark, 2022. Her poster was her MSc project on the neuronal underpinnings of picture encoding in patients with mood disorders and the effects of EPO on encoding-related neural activity. Congratulations, Johanna!
March 2022
- Professor Kamilla Miskowiak received a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for her project ALTIBRAIN, in which she will investigate the effects of simulated altitude training on cognition and brain function. Read more (in Danish): here and here.
- Join the latest episode of “Videnskabens Veje" (in Danish), where you can hear Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Kamilla Miskowiak talk about EPO and the possible positive effects it can have on the cognitive functions of people with affective disorders here.
October 2021
- Professor Kamilla Miskowiak held her inaugural lecture as Full Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Friday 1st October 2021 – a joint position between Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, and the Mental Health Services, Capital Region of Denmark. It was a festive and inspiring afternoon!
You can login to the online ECNP platform to see all sessions from the ECNP 2021 congress if you have registered for the conference: here
On the platform you can see:
Congratulation to Dr. Anne Juul Bjertrup who was awarded the ECNP’s Got Talent award
- Congratulations to Dr Anne Bjertrup who has been selected to speak at the "ECNP's Got Talent" session on the topic "Reduced prefrontal cortex response to own vs. unknown emotional infant faces in mothers with bipolar disorder".
The ECNP Excellence Award consists of a 100 EUR grant and a certificate as well as a 400 EUR travel grant for the ECNP congress in Lisbon, Portugal.
The ECNP Congress 2021 will be a hybrid congress taking place Oct 2-5.
- Congratulations also to Andreas Elleby Jespersen who has been awarded with the ECNP Excellence Award for his abstract "Cognition Assessment in Virtual Reality: Training of real-life cognitive functions with fully immersive virtual reality in mood or psychotic disorders".
July 2021
- 12th July 2021: Professor Miskowiak has taken part in a TV interview about the cognitive sequelae after hospitalization with COVID-19 with Deutsche Welle – see the interview here
The interview is partly based on our study
“Cognitive impairments four months after COVID-19 hospital discharge: Pattern,
severity and association with illness variables” published in European
Neuropsychopharmacology, 2021: Link to article
February 2021
On the ECNP Early CareerScientist Workshop 2021 Dr. Anne Bjertrup present research on neural responses to own and
unknown infant faces in mothers with bipolar disorder compared with healthy
mothers. The background for this study is the emerging evidence that healthy
motherhood is associated with structural and functional brain changes in
regions important for rapid and sensitive processing of infant signals.
However, bipolar disorder is, even in remission from affective episodes,
associated with neurocognitive emotion processing difficulties reflected in
brain structures overlapping with regions involved in processing of infant
signals. Therefore, we investigated whether mothers with bipolar disorder
compared with healthy mothers show different neural responses to images of own
vs. unknown infant faces. We found that mothers with bipolar disorder showed
reduced dorsolateral prefrontal cortex response to own vs. unknown infant faces
compared with healthy mothers. This could indicate a less regulated neural
response to watching own emotional infant faces, which could be related to less
sensitive behavior toward the infant in mothers with bipolar disorder.
At the 2021 ECNP Workshop for Early Career Scientists in Europe, Dr. Hanne Lie Kjærstad presents research investigating cognitive predictors of mood episodes in newly diagnosed patients with bipolar disorder. The study is the first to investigate whether impairments in non-affective and affective cognition can predict the recurrence and duration of manic and depressive episodes, respectively, in a large sample of newly diagnosed patients with bipolar disorder during remission (n=144). Impairments in both non-affective and affective cognition predict the recurrence and duration of new manic – but not depressive – episodes. This suggests that early prophylactic strategies targeting cognitive impairments may increase resilience in newly diagnosed patients with bipolar disorder.
January 2021
December 2020
- Congratulations to Hanne Lie Kjærstad for being awarded 600.000 DKK from Region Hovedstadens Forskningsfond til Sundhedsforskning 2020 for the postdoc project "Prediction of risk and resilience in bipolar disorder: what can neuroimaging and neurocognitive biomarkers tell us? (PREDICT)".
November 2020
- Congratulations to Hanne
Lie Kjærstad for receiving Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri Postdoc grant of
1.687.000 DKK for the project “Prediction of risk and resilience in bipolar
disorder: what can neuroimaging and neurocognitive biomarkers tell us?
(PREDICT)”.
December 2019
- NEAD group Christmas symposium about risk in
psychiatry and clinical trials, December 2019
May 2019
- Click here to read the Lundbeckfonden News article, "Topforsker - med baby på armen", which includes an interview with Professor Kamilla Miskowiak.
November 2018
October 2018
The International Society
for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) Targeting Cognition Task Force chaired by Professor
Miskowiak has developed a patient booklet with information about the nature of
cognitive dysfunction in patients with bipolar disorder and a practical guide
on how to facilitate cognitive capacity and compensate for cognitive problems
in daily life (https://www.isbd.org/cognitive-assessment).
Click below to access the booklet and read more about why,
when, and how to assess and address cognition in these patients.
English version:
Danish version:
June 2018
NEAD Group was well represented among poster
presenters at the annual Psychiatric Research Day ("Region Hovedstadens
Psykiatris Forskningsdag"), which took place at Rigshospitalet,
Copenhagen,
Denmark on the 27th of June 2018.
In the news
International and national media coverage of our research
January 2018
- Professor Kamilla Woznica Miskowiak defended her doctoral dissertation and was awarded the doctoral degree in medical science (dr.med.) on Thursday 11th of January 2018. Click here to read more.
July 2017
June 2017
European Psychiatric Association (EPA)
- Watch Professor Kamilla Miskowiak giving an interview to CongressReport.eu at the EPA in 2017.
Lundbeckfonden Magazine 2017
- The Lundbeckfonden Magazine 2017 includes an interview with Dr Kamilla Miskowiak about the PRETEC-Marker studies. The magazine is available online. Click here to read the interview, "Research paves the way for novel treatment for concentration difficulties" (p. 24-27)
February 2017
Radio interview
- Dr Kamilla Miskowiak’s interview about
electroconvulsive therapy and cognition on the national Danish radio, P1, 31st
January 2017. Click here to listen to the broadcast.
November 2016
Lundbeckfonden Fellowship
- Dr Kamilla Miskowiak is one of the new Lundbeckfonden Fellows 2016. The fellowship of 10 million DKK (1.34 million Euro) enables her to conduct a large neuroimaging project that aims to identify a novel brain-based biomarker model for pro-cognitive effects. A biomarker model that can help select among new candidate cognition treatments prior to large-scale clinical efficacy trials. The project may lead to a break-through in development of treatments for cognitive impairment in psychiatric disorders.
See a 2 minute film about the project here:
September 2016
- See the latest international news about our EPO research based on a poster that was presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) meeting in Vienna Sep 2016:
July 2016
Video podcast with Dr Kamilla Miskowiak telling about EPO-associated memory improvement in mood disorders (Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica)
Other news
NeuroScene podcast interview with Dr Kamilla Miskowiak: Erythropoietin: A New Compound for Depression?
In Danish:
EPO giver depressive bedre hukommelse (Videnskab.dk)
EPO ser ud til at have antidepressiv effekt (Videnskab.dk)
Dopingmiddel kan hjælpe depressive (Information.dk)
EPO styrker hukommelsen hos mennesker med depression (Mental health services in the Capital Region of Denmark)
Forskning i følelser vinder frem
(Interview with Dr Kamilla Miskowiak about emotion research in the national Danish newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad)
Radio interview with Dr Kamilla Miskowiak in Danish about gender bias in science after she was given the L’Oréal For Women in Science award; fast forward to 31 minutes into the program
Publiceringsdato: 18-07-2023 16:22