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On January 25 2016 Åsa Petersen gave an invited talk on “Hypothalamic pathology in HD” at the Department for Neurology at Ulm University in Germany. Here with one of the hosts; Dr Patrick Weydt.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/talk-ulm-university - 2025-10-19
Rana Soylu Kucharz successfully defended her PhD thesis at Lund University on Thursday January 28! Congratulations Dr Rana Soylu Kucharz!
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/congratulations-dr-rana-soylu-kucharz - 2025-10-19
In the magazine Reflex (1/2016), issued by Neuroförbundet, an article on the TNU research on Huntington's disease is highlighted. Three PhD theses have been published during 2014-2016 in the TNU group; all focusing on different aspect of the disease. Read the article here (in Swedish): artikel_i_reflex_1_2016.pdf
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnus-research-highlighted-reflex - 2025-10-19
Petersén is invited to give a talk entitled "Huntington disease - in the crossroads of neurology and psychiatry" at the Swedish Psychiatry Congress in Stockholm, March 16-18 2016.
On Friday April 15 2016 Åsa Petersén hosted a national HD meeting in Lund for health care personnel. 50 participants from different parts of Sweden attended the meeting. program_nationellt_hd-mote_lund_15_april_2016.pdf
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-hosts-national-hd-meeting - 2025-10-19
Åsa Petersén was appointed Professor in Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University on March 16 2016.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/petersen-now-appointed-professor-lund-university - 2025-10-19
Former TNU PhD student Sanaz Gabery was awarded Best Neurobiology section PhD thesis 2015 for her thesis New perspectives on pathology in Huntington's disease - characterization of hypothalamic changes.Congratulations, Sanaz!
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/gabery-awarded-best-neurobiology-section-phd-thesis-2015 - 2025-10-19
Dr Rachel Cheong is awarded Svenska Sällskapet för Medicinsk Forsknings (SSMF) stipend for post doctoral studies. The stipend of 600 000 SEK during two years allows Rachel to conduct research aiming to understand the neuropsychiatric aspects of HD. A greater understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of HD will clearly help to develop novel therapeutic strategies to treat this debilitating di
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/cheong-receives-ssmf-post-doc-stipend - 2025-10-19
Petersen and Cheong were awarded a 500 000 SEK grant for a project on the oxytocin system as a therapeutic target for HD!Brain Foundation's webpage (in Swedish)
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/swedish-brain-foundation-grant-petersen-and-cheong - 2025-10-19
Drs Baldo, Cheong and Soylu-Kucharz present their recent research findings at the 10th FENS Forum of Neuroscience in Copenhagen, July 2-6 2016.More about FENS:FENS website
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/tnu-members-present-research-fens-copenhagen - 2025-10-19
Dr Cheong presents her recent work at the HDF (Hereditary Disease Foundation) “The Milton Wexler Celebration of Life” symposium in Boston, August 3-6 2016.
https://www.huntington-research.lu.se/article/dr-cheong-presents-her-research-hdf-meeting-boston - 2025-10-19
What are the incentives of politicians to either clean up or maintain corrupt courts in nondemocracies? Ketevan Bolkvadze examines this in a recent article published in the Comparative Political Studies. This article offers a novel take on the problem of judicial independence in nondemocracies. Some scholars hold that political fragmentation leads to more judicial independence; others argue that i
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bolkvadze-problem-judicial-independence-nondemocracies - 2025-10-19
Roxanna Sjöstedt has together with Anders Themnér, Uppsala University, co-authored the article ”Buying Them Off or Scaring Them Straight: Explaining Warlord Democrats’ Electoral Rhetoric”, which has been published in the journal Security Studies. AbstractPost–civil war democracies are characterized by intense electoral competition. To ensure continued political relevance, ex-military-turned-politi
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-warlord-democrats-electoral-rhetoric - 2025-10-19
Jakob Skovgaard and Åsa Knaggård have co-authored the article “Mapping and clustering the adoption of carbon pricing policies: what polities price carbon and why?” together with Sofía Sacks Ferrari (SIPRI, formerly the Department of Political Science, LU). The article is published in the journal Climate Policy. It concerns what countries as well as sub- and supranational entities adopt carbon taxe
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-knaggard-adoption-carbon-pricing - 2025-10-19
Douglas Brommesson and Rikard Bengtsson have co-authored the article "Staten som kommunikatör - En panelstudie av effekterna av kampanjen Om krisen eller kriget kommer", which has been published in ”Kungl. Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och tidskrift”. In 2017, the Swedish government took the initiative to conduct a country¬wide information campaign with the aim of informing the citizens on
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/brommesson-and-bengtsson-government-communicator - 2025-10-19
Roger Hildingsson has published the article ”Sustainable Welfare in Swedish Cities: Challenges of Eco-Social Integration in Urban Sustainability Governance” in the journal “Sustainability”. The article is on eco-social integration in urban sustainability governance. Based on studies in three Swedish cities (Malmö, Göteborg, Stockholm), the analysis emphasizes the challenges involved in integrating
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-eco-social-integration-urban-sustainability-governance - 2025-10-19
Annika Bergman Rosamond has recently published a book chapter titled “Celebrity global motherhood: Maternal care and cosmopolitan obligation” in the edited collection “Troubling Motherhood Maternality in Global Politics”, edited by Lucy B. Hall, Anna L. Weissman, and Laura J. Shepherd, Oxford University Press, 2020. The rise to prominence of celebrity culture is a key feature of our times. Mass au
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-celebrity-global-motherhood - 2025-10-19
Johan Matz has published the book ”Stalin’s Double-Edged Game: Soviet Bureaucracy and the Raoul Wallenberg case 1945-1952”. The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. Raoul Wallenberg, the courageous Swedish financier and trade executive turned diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Hungary in 1944, was arrested in January 1945 by the Soviet military
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-johan-matz - 2025-10-19
Nina Wilén has together with Lindy Heinecken (Stellenbosch University) co-authored the article ”No Place Like Home? Postdeployment Reintegration Challenges Facing South African Peacekeepers” in the journal ”Armed Forces and Society”. We find that peacekeeping veterans experience the time away from the children, concerns over infidelity and too little institutional support as difficult challenges,
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wilen-challenges-peacekeepers - 2025-10-19
Catarina Kinnvall has published a forum commentary entitled “Multiplicity, Discipline and the Political” in “New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and East European Politics and International Relations” (edited by Benjamin Tallis). This forum draws together scholars working in different ways and different settings to discuss how (and, indeed, whether) Multiplicity: can become more
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-new-publication - 2025-10-19
