Lennart
Wetterberg är
professor i psykiatri vid Strömstad akademi sedan 17 december 2008. Efter pensioneringen har Lennart Wetterberg varit professor i psykiatri i Norge, vid Tromsö universitet 1998-2001 och vid Oslo universitet 2003-2004 samtidigt som han var överläkare vid den nyöppnade Neuropsykiatriska kliniken, Akershus sjukhus. Wetterberg har fortsatt sin forskning om de psykiska sjukdomarnas orsaker vid Karolinska institutet och har rapporterat om nya mikroskopiska fynd i ryggvätskan (CSF) vid schizofreni och bipolär sjukdom (2009). - - - - - - - - |
Lennart Wetterberg, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of psychiatry at Strömstad Academy since December 17, 2008. He was born 1931 in Borås, Sweden, is Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry, at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and retired Director and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, St. Goran’s Hospital. He was member of the Nobel Prize Assembly of Karolinska Institute in Stockholm 1973-1996. He received his M.D. from the University of Lund 1959, and his Ph.D. in Psychiatry and Medical Genetics from the University of Uppsala 1967, defending his thesis ”A Neuropsychiatric and Genetical Investigation of Acute Intermittent Porphyria”. Dr. Wetterberg has been a Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and is an Honorary Member of the American College of Psychiatry and the Swedish Psychiatric Association. He has organized numerous international symposia, written more than 400 research articles, and edited several books, including Genetics of Neuropsychiatric Diseases (Macmillan/Stockton Press, 1989) and Light and Biological Rhythms in Man (Pergamon Press, 1993) and Research in Psychiatry and Related Fields. Principles of Problem Selection, Methods, Results, Reading the Literature, and Grant Writing (Karolinska University Press, 2004).
His
research fields relates to psychiatric genetic diseases as inborn errors of
metabolisms e g acute intermittent porphyria and metabolic correlates to
schizophrenia in geographic isolates, linkage and clinical studies of psychosis, psychoneuroendocrinology related to light and biological rhythms, in particular
the pineal-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in affective disorders and the
clinical psychiatric importance of the pineal hormone melatonin. Recently he has
published about microscopic (SEM) structures in human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)
in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. His textbook of psychiatry
Psykiatri i fickformat (Swedish 1989, 2006), is translated to;
Psühhiaatria taskuraamat (Estonian 1992),
Psihiatrija rokasgramata (Latvian 1993),
Psichiatrija (Lithuanian 1994), and
Karmannaja psichiatrija (Russian 1997).
E-mail:
Lennart.Wetterberg@stromstadakademi.se.