Marie Åsberg (born 1938) is a Swedish psychiatrist. She was based at the

Karolinska Institute The Karolinska Institute (KI; ; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden and one of the foremost medical research institutes globally ...

until retirement in 2004. In a pioneering 1976 paper, Åsberg found a link between low

serotonin Serotonin (), also known as 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), is a monoamine neurotransmitter with a wide range of functions in both the central nervous system (CNS) and also peripheral tissues. It is involved in mood, cognition, reward, learning, ...

and violent

suicide Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Risk factors for suicide include mental disorders, physical disorders, and substance abuse. Some suicides are impulsive acts driven by stress (such as from financial or ac ...

. Åsberg is an expert on exhaustion disorder and burnout, and the need for

self-care Self-care has been defined as the process of establishing behaviors to ensure holistic well-being of oneself, to promote health, and actively manage illness when it occurs. Individuals engage in some form of self-care daily with food choices, ...

. She has developed the concept of an 'exhaustion funnel', to illustrate the way in which preoccupations can be narrowed by over-concentration on work. She was the 2022 recipient of the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology (ENA) Award, which recognises exceptional research achievements in applied and translational neuroscience. ECNP 2022

''Marie Åsberg wins 2022 ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award'', June 2022.

Works

* (with Lil Träskman and Peter Thorén) '5-HIAA in the Cerebrospinal Fluid: A Biochemical Suicide Predictor?', ''Archives of General Psychiatry''. Vol. 33 (1976), pp.1193-1197. * ''The CPRS : development and applications of a psychiatric rating scale''. Copenhagen : Munksgaard, 1978. * (with Stuart A. Montgomery) 'A New Depression Scale Designed to be Sensitive to Change'. * (ed. with Michael A. Jenike) ''Understanding obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) : an international symposium held during the VIIIth World Congress of Psychiatry, Athens, Greece, October 1989''. Toronto: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, 1991. * 'Neurotransmitters and Suicidal Behavior: The evidence from cerebrospinal fluid studies', ''Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences'', 2006.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Asberg, Marie 1938 births CAtegory:Living people Swedish psychiatrists Swedish women psychiatrists 20th-century Swedish physicians 20th-century Swedish women physicians Academic staff of the Karolinska Institute