POSTGRADUATE STUDIES. A new national postgraduate school in compulsory psychiatric care and forensic psychiatry is now being established by the University of Gothenburg in cooperation with Lund University. The graduate school is funded with SEK 30 million from the Swedish Research Council. The primary applicant for the funding of the new postgraduate school is Peter Andiné, professor of forensic psychiatry at the University of Gothenburg and senior physician at Sahlgrenska…
New blood test gives very high accuracy to screen for Alzheimer’s disease
NEW STUDY. A new blood test called p-tau217 shows promise as an Alzheimer’s disease biomarker, and when used in a two-step workflow very high accuracy to either identify or exclude brain amyloidosis, the most important and earliest pathology. That is an innovation now presented by researchers at the University of Gothenburg, together with colleagues at University of Lund and in Montreal, Canada. In recent years, a lot of effort has…
Optimal blood tests for development of new therapies of Alzheimer’s disease
NEW STUDY. A new study have identified which blood tests are best at detecting Alzheimer’s disease during the earliest stages, and another blood test that is optimal for detecting relevant treatment effects. These findings will speed up the development of new therapies that can slow down the disease progression. The Swedish study lead by Professor Oskar Hanssson, Lund University, and Professor Kaj Blennow, University of Gothenburg, looked at several newly…
Wide-ranging diagnoses in children born before 24 weeks gestation
NEW STUDY. In a study of children born after a pregnancy of less than 24 weeks, nearly all (96 percent) proved to have any of the diagnoses studied. According to the study, lead from the University of Gothenburg, neuropsychiatric and somatic diagnoses are prevalent as these extremely preterm infants grow into adulthood. The findings are now published in the scientific journal Acta Paediatrica. The study was based on data in…
Galectin-1 linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg now associate elevated levels of the protein galectin-1 with increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes about 18 years later. At the same time, this protein seems to be a protective factor for the kidneys among type 2 diabetes patients at high risk for diabetic nephropathy. Findings of the study, a collaboration with researchers at Lund University, have been published in the journal Diabetologia.…