Research output per year
Research output per year
Sölvegatan 19, BMC D11
221 84 Lund
Sweden
The research group studies the underlying pathogenic mechanisms of the neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric Huntington disease (HD) with the ultimate aim to develop novel effective therapies. HD is a devastating disorder always caused by an expanded CAG triplet repeat mutation in the huntingtin gene. Importantly, individuals with the mutant HD gene suffer from psychiatric symptoms and metabolic dysfunction many years before onset of typical motor symptoms. Our hypothesis is that the non-motor features are due to hypothalamic pathology. We have previously shown that hypothalamic changes occur early in clinical HD and we have established a causal relationship between hypothalamic huntingtin and the development of metabolic and psychiatric disturbances in mice. Ongoing work will identify key molecular pathways and the critical neuronal circuitries affected early in the HD hypothalamus in order to develop disease modifying treatments.
Person
Person
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis (compilation)
Petersén, Å. (PI)
2024/07/01 → 2026/12/31
Project: Research
Oraha, J. (Researcher), Pettersson, Å. (PI) & Björkqvist, M. (Assistant supervisor)
2024/02/01 → …
Project: Dissertation
Petersén, Å. (Researcher)
2024/01/01 → 2027/12/31
Project: Research
Björklund, A. (Member of programme committee), Ekdahl Clementson, C. (Member of programme committee), Garwicz, M. (Member of programme committee), Norrving, B. (Member of programme committee), Parmar, M. (Member of programme committee), Petersén, Å. (Member of programme committee), Hansson, O. (Member of programme committee), COMPAGNO STRANDBERG, M. (Member of programme committee), Ottosson, D. (Member of programme committee), Heuer, A. (Member of programme committee), Kokaia, M. (Member of programme committee), Mårtensson, J. (Member of programme committee), Castilla-Vallmanya, L. (Member of programme committee), Pettersson, P. (Organiser), Jakobsson, J. (Chair), Castilla-Vallmanya, L. (Organiser), Twohig, D. P. (Contributor), Cesaroni, V. (Contributor), Fernandez Calle, R. (Contributor), Arenas, E. (Invited speaker), Lignani, G. (Invited speaker), Beyeler, A. (Invited speaker), Adami, A. (Presenter), Bergh, S. (Presenter), Fritze, J. (Presenter), Hägg, A. (Presenter), Jukkola, J. (Presenter), Sozzi, E. (Presenter), Tampé, J. (Presenter), Schaefer, A. (Keynote/plenary speaker), Habekost, M. (Chair) & Wickham, J. (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation of conference
Pettersson, P. (Organiser), Björklund, A. (Member of programme committee), Ekdahl Clementson, C. (Member of programme committee), Garwicz, M. (Member of programme committee), Magnusson, M. (Member of programme committee), Norrving, B. (Member of programme committee), Parmar, M. (Member of programme committee), Petersén, Å. (Member of programme committee), Hansson, O. (Member of programme committee), COMPAGNO STRANDBERG, M. (Member of programme committee), Kokaia, M. (Member of programme committee), Heuer, A. (Member of programme committee), Ottosson, D. (Member of programme committee), Broccoli, V. (Invited speaker), Buffo, A. (Invited speaker), Lim, L. (Invited speaker), Wardlaw, J. M. (Invited speaker), Sozzi, E. (Presenter), Bruzelius, A. (Presenter), Li, C. (Presenter), Dubonyte, U. (Presenter), Garza, R. (Presenter), Kylkilahti, T. (Presenter) & Seth, A. (Keynote/plenary speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation of conference
Pettersson, P. (Organiser), Björklund, A. (Member of programme committee), Ekdahl Clementson, C. (Member of programme committee), Garwicz, M. (Member of programme committee), Magnusson, M. (Member of programme committee), Norrving, B. (Member of programme committee), Parmar, M. (Member of programme committee), Petersén, Å. (Member of programme committee), Hansson, O. (Member of programme committee), COMPAGNO STRANDBERG, M. (Member of programme committee), Gether, U. (Invited speaker), Nieder, A. (Invited speaker), Castelo-Branco, G. (Invited speaker), Cenci Nilsson, A. (Chair), Jakobsson, J. (Chair), Cappello , S. (Invited speaker), Castrén, E. (Keynote/plenary speaker), Garza, R. (Presenter), Salvador, A. (Presenter), Schörling, A. (Presenter), Adami, A. (Presenter), Nilsson, F. (Presenter), Fiorenzano, A. (Presenter), Muralidharan, C. (Presenter), Karlsson, O. (Presenter), Pandiloski, N. (Presenter), Sozzi, E. (Presenter) & Storm, P. (Presenter)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation of conference