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Anne Willems

Posted on December 14, 2019 by Siri Leknes

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NEWS

  • Important new publication on patient-clinician interaction as a source of patient distress & how to study effects of this
  • New results page summarising new & upcoming findings from Stress + drug study
  • Stress increases opioid self-administration in healthy people (mainly in men): new paper in Nat Mental Health by Marie Eikemo et al
  • New preprint: guide to repeated stress induction by Cecilia Vezzani, Liva Martinussen et al
  • Talk by Chantal Berna on hypnosis implementation in hospitals June 17
  • PhD hiring for Decode & in collaboration with Knockout project
  • Marie Eikemo  & Siri Leknes part of Promenta team in the final round for Centre of Excellence funding
  • Major congrats to Dr. Martin Trøstheim who successfully defended his PhD on April 22!
  • Wonderful talks by superstars Sandra Comer and Jane Quinlan April 23
  • Exciting events ahead: visit and seminar by Massieh Moayedi on March 2 – 1 pm
  • Upcoming PhD defence on April 22 for Martin Trøstheim with opponents Sandra Comer & Jane Quinlan: details on talks by opponents coming
  • And 2025 is a wrap with the best grant success rate ever  – HSØ postdoc grants to Siri Leknes/Cecilia Vezzani and Gernot Ernst
  • Hooray! Grants for 2026 from Vestre Viken awarded to Affective Brain’ers Isabell Meier, Siri Gurandsrud Karlsen & Cecilia Vezzani (with Gernot Ernst, Marie Eikemo, Siri Leknes)
  • Congratulations to Guro Løseth & opponents Jennifer Bartz & Rafael Kalisch for a wonderful PhD defence Nov 19
  • Article & podcast interview on pain with Siri Leknes
  • Grant alert! Siri Leknes et al received a UiO:Life Science Convergence Environment grant for Decoding Addiction. 
  • LABlab soon hiring postdoc , PhD position (calls now closed) for SpectrO launch in January 2026
  • New preprint on pain in naltrexone- and agonist-treated opioid use disorder groups from Martin Trøstheim & Eikemo lab
  • Siri Leknes on sabbatical in Madrid with Ana Tajadura’s I_mBody lab
  • Two senior lab members finally found the time in between projects to submit their (brilliant) PhD theses: congratulations Guro Løseth and Martin Trøstheim!
  • Major new preprint by Isabell Meier et al shows that endogenous opioids play a minor role in human pain relief
  • Siri Leknes speaks science & careers in ECNP podcast
  • Placebo Imaging Consortium preprint on conditioning vs verbal suggestion now available
  • New paper by Martin Trøstheim et al accepted in Biological Psychiatry: CNNI
  • New preprint from the group describing our first presurgical opioid RCT by Siri Gurandsud Karlsen et al
  • Marie Eikemo chairs EFIC symposium: Short- and longterm effects of opioid drugs on reward & motivation
  • Siri Leknes chairs EFIC Clinical Masterclass: Preoperative and postoperative opioids
  • Podcast interview with Siri Leknes from UiO (in Norwegian)
  • New grant awarded to test pentazocine efficacy in people with reduced OPRM1 function
  • Siri Leknes interviewed about pain’s benefits on BBC’s CrowdScience
  • ERC Consolidator Grant to Siri Leknes on the full spectrum of opioid effects
  • Review on Opioid regulation of social homeostasis: Connecting Loneliness to Addiction by Løseth, Eikemo, Leknes accepted for Special Issue in Biological Psychiatry
  • LAB lab welcomes new postdoc Anne Willems, from Bramlab, Leuven University
  • Eikemo lab hires consultant anaestetist Marlin Comelon in a postdoc
  • Siri Leknes presenting plenary lecture on opioid myths at European College of Neuropsychopharmacology in Milan
  • Do endogenous opioids encode social connectedness? Our meta-analysis in Translational Psychiatry by Løseth et al finds significant but small effect
  • LABlab thanks Raimund Buehler from Silani lab for an excellent collaboration & research visit (funded by Marietta-Blau)
  • New paper on how childhood adversity shapes the experience of stimulant drugs by Molly Carlyle et al
  • Siri Leknes contributes to preprint on groundbreaking chronic pain task development: disability justification as stress induction
  • Jama Psychiatry publishes meta-analysis on pain sensitivity in long-term opioid users by Trøstheim & Eikemo

PAST NEWS

  • New opinion piece out in Addiction Biology: Leknes et al argue for a consortium of opioid effects
  • Grants galore for Marie Eikemo: three major grants in six months will fund the brand-new Eikemo lab
  • Molly Carlyle lands tenured research position at NKVTS!
  • It’s preprint time at LABlab! The biggest and bestest stress+opioid self-administration paper EVER is now out on OSF (thanks Marie Eikemo et al!)
  • Also, we branch out into stimulants: learn how early life adversity shapes stimulant effects in this preprint by Molly Carlyle
  • Marie Eikemo wins prestigious Young Rearch Talents grant from Norwegian Research Council to study endocannabinoids and stress resilience
  • New preprint: meta-analysis of opioid modulation of social feelings by Guro Løseth et al
  • LABlab at EFIC 2025: Siri Leknes chairs symposium on endogenous opioids
  • LABlab at EBPS: Congrats to Isabell Meier and Molly Carlyle who both chaired symposia 23 August ’23
  • Who takes opioid rescue medication after day surgery? New paper by Meier et al accepted in Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
  • Open-label opioids don’t improve well-being on the operating table: new paper by Eikemo et al in Anaesthesia
  • Recorded talk by Leknes on How opioids affect well-being
  • Løseth et al’s Stress recovery with social support out in PNEC
  • New preprint on acute opioid effects on the operating table by Eikemo et al
  • New preprint on rescue opioid medication use after surgery by Meier et al
  • New primer on pharmacological opioid blockade by Trøstheim et al out in Neuropsychopharmacology 
  • LABlab welcomes PhD student Siri Gurandsrud Karlsen & postdoc Harald Lenz
  • Participate in research – healthy volunteers needed
  • New corrigendum to Leknes&Atlas BJA letter
  • We are hiring a physician postdoc: apply here before May 1
  • Primer on optimal dosing+timing of opioid antagonists: New preprint by Martin Trøstheim et al
  • Happy end-of-2021 news: LABlab’s surgery study gets funding for a PhD at Kongsberg + postdoc at OUS
  • LAB lab is excited to welcome our new nurse Renate Fevang & new postdoc Molly Carlyle!
  • Two new positions open at LABlab! postdoc in affective neuroscience & nurse/ physician
  • Siri Leknes is the new president-elect of Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN)
  • Guro Løseth wins Best Talk Award at Society for Affective Science 2021!
  • Leknes releases annotated CV for SAS2021 Salon on Rejection & Resilience
  • New review on lessons from opioid psychopharmacology by Meier et al
  • New paper by Laeng et al shows brain opioids are not necessary for music appreciation
  • New paper on how pupil dilation can alter brightness perception, with Bruno Laeng
  • Recorded talks from ABC Seminar Series now hosted here!
  • Intranasal oxytocin stabilises face percept – new paper out
  • LAB lab starts ABC seminar series: Affective Brains during Covid!
  • New paper out: meta-analysis of anhedonia by Trøstheim et al.
  • Axel Vittersø awarded MRC postdoc transition grant to visit LAB lab
  • Two new postdocs joined LABlab: Welcome Silvana de Pirro & Isabell Meier!
  • LABlab’s new project kick-off day Feb 2020 (scroll for photos)
  • Two new grants to Siri Leknes and Gernot Ernst from HSØ: 2020-2022
  • Siri Leknes on pain & pleasure, BBC4 Dec 19: listen here
  • New paper out: anhedonia in chronic pain/opioid misuse
  • New PhD student at LAB lab: Martin Trøstheim
  • New paper by Eikemo et al on anhedonia in substance use
  • New papers out: opioids and touch by Guro Løseth et al; opioids, cognition & decision-making by van Steenbergen et al
  • New video methods paper from Anbjørn Ree et al
  • New preprint on anhedonia in chronic pain by Eric Garland in collaboration with LAB lab
  • New preprint on opioids and touch by Guro Løseth et al
  • LAB lab hires two new PhD students: David Medved & Guro Løseth!
  • New paper by Anbjørn Ree et al on pleasant touch
  • New preregistration of meta-analysis of anhedonia with Martin Trøstheim
  • New paper by Chantal Berna, Siri Leknes et al. on the opioid dependence of pain relief modes
  • LAB lab receives an ERC Starting Grant
  • New paper by Placebo Imaging Consortium
  • New paper by Uta Sailer, Anbjørn Ree et al.
  • LAB lab’s first preprint is out: on opioids, cognition & reward, with Marie Eikemo & Henk van Steenbergen 
  • LAB lab’s first preregistration is out: on oxytocin & gaze to the eyes, with Runa Jacobsen
  • Siri Leknes presenting on opioids, oxytocin, reward & pain @ ESCAN, Leiden in July
  • Siri Leknes @ ERC Starting Grant 2018 interview in Brussels, May ’18
  • Remy Meir awarded Fulbright Scholarship to join LAB lab from 08/18
  • New paper accepted in PNEC! Løseth et al. on morphine effects on emotion perception
  • Siri Leknes presenting at CERE symposium “Neurochemistry of affect: The role of the opioid system“, Glasgow, April 2018
  • Visit and talk by Louk Vanderschuren, March 16, 12-1 pm
  • Siri Leknes joins Neuroqualia project
  • Regional Health Authority grant to Marie Eikemo and Siri Leknes
  • Uta Sailer wins FRIMEDBIO grant
  • Visit and talk by Siri Leknes at Yale University’s John B. Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series, 22 Jan 2018. Hosted by Dr Paul Geha
  • Visit from Georgia Silani and Claus Lamm, University of Vienna now scheduled for June 2018
  • LAB lab alumnus Jostein Holmgren wins prestigious Aker stipend
  • Public lecture by Siri Leknes on Love, pain and pleasure at Copenhagen’s Science & Cocktails, 7. November at 8 pm
  • Visit from Alexa Veenema, Michigan State University. Talk and workshop on rodent-human parallels, 26 October
  • Radio interview about women and alcohol, NRK p2 EKKO 27 Sept
  • EBPS meeting, Crete 31 Aug-3 September. Talk by Guro Løseth: Does mu-opioid modulation of social reward in humans mirror findings from animal models?
  • IASAT meeting, Liverpool 1-3 September. Talk by Siri Leknes on Lack of Opioid and Oxytocin Mediation of Touch Pleasantness
  • LAB lab alumnus Peder Isager starts PhD with Daniel Lakens at Eindhoven University of Technology
  • LAB lab alumnus Jostein Holmgren starts D.Phil with Katie Warnaby at University of Oxford
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