Andreas Frick
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Psychology; Emotion Psychology
- E-mail:
- andreas.frick@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1A och 1C
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 1225
751 42 UPPSALA
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Associate senior lecturer/Assistant Professor at Department of Medical Sciences; Experimental Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ECAN)
- E-mail:
- andreas.frick@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, ingång 10
- Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, ingång 10
751 85 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- Docent, PhD
Short presentation
Why do some people suffer from debilitating fear and anxiety? In our research, we aim to understand the neurobiological and psychological mechanisms underlying the onset and maintenance of pathological fear. By mapping the development of brain networks and neurotransmitters and how they together with psychological factors contribute to normal and excessive fear, we hope to contribute to better treatments for affected individuals.
Keywords
- pet
- anxiety
- fmri
- neuroimaging
- psychiatry
- hjärnavbildning
- curiosity

Publications
Selection of publications
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Fear extinction retention in children, adolescents, and adults
Part of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2025
- DOI for Fear extinction retention in children, adolescents, and adults
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Part of Journal of Psychopharmacology, p. 836-846, 2025
- DOI for Acute effects of 150 mg caffeine on subjective, physiological, and behavioral components of anxiety in panic disorder and healthy controls - A randomized placebo-controlled crossover trial
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Part of Developmental Psychobiology, 2024
- DOI for The influence of anterior cingulate GABA+ and glutamate on emotion regulation and reactivity in adolescents and adults
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Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2022
- DOI for Application of positron emission tomography in psychiatry-methodological developments and future directions
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2022
- DOI for Evaluating an internet-delivered fear conditioning and extinction protocol using response times and affective ratings
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Part of Learning and Motivation, 2022
- DOI for Internet-delivered approach-avoidance conflict task shows temporal stability and relation to trait anxiety
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Part of General Hospital Psychiatry, p. 22-31, 2022
- DOI for Effects of caffeine on anxiety and panic attacks in patients with panic disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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Dopamine and fear memory formation in the human amygdala
Part of Molecular Psychiatry, p. 1704-1711, 2022
- DOI for Dopamine and fear memory formation in the human amygdala
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Enriching CBT by Neuroscience: Novel Avenues to Achieve Personalized Treatments
Part of International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, p. 182-195, 2021
- DOI for Enriching CBT by Neuroscience: Novel Avenues to Achieve Personalized Treatments
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Part of Journal of Psychopharmacology, p. 1536-1541, 2021
- DOI for Habitual caffeine consumption moderates the antidepressant effect of dorsomedial intermittent theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation
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Recent publications
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Childhood emotion reactivity and regulation as predictors of sleep quality: A longitudinal study
Part of British Journal of Developmental Psychology, p. 382-396, 2026
- DOI for Childhood emotion reactivity and regulation as predictors of sleep quality: A longitudinal study
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Part of BMC Psychiatry, 2026
- DOI for Psychometric assessment and exploratory scale refinement of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale among adolescents and young adults in a Swedish context
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Part of Journal of mathematical psychology (Print), 2026
- DOI for Hierarchical modeling of the relationships between internalizing psychiatric symptom factors and attitudes to risk and ambiguity using a Laplace-based variational approximation
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Part of Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2026
- DOI for Exploring early and late pregnancy heart rate variability as incremental predictors of postpartum depression and anxiety symptoms
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Part of Behavioural Brain Research, 2026
- DOI for Cerebellar gray matter volume changes across development: Posterolateral and vermal transient increases during adolescence
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Childhood emotion reactivity and regulation as predictors of sleep quality: A longitudinal study
Part of British Journal of Developmental Psychology, p. 382-396, 2026
- DOI for Childhood emotion reactivity and regulation as predictors of sleep quality: A longitudinal study
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Part of BMC Psychiatry, 2026
- DOI for Psychometric assessment and exploratory scale refinement of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale among adolescents and young adults in a Swedish context
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Part of Journal of mathematical psychology (Print), 2026
- DOI for Hierarchical modeling of the relationships between internalizing psychiatric symptom factors and attitudes to risk and ambiguity using a Laplace-based variational approximation
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Part of Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2026
- DOI for Exploring early and late pregnancy heart rate variability as incremental predictors of postpartum depression and anxiety symptoms
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Part of Behavioural Brain Research, 2026
- DOI for Cerebellar gray matter volume changes across development: Posterolateral and vermal transient increases during adolescence
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Part of Biology of Sex Differences, 2026
- DOI for Motivation and reward processing across sex/gender and the menstrual cycle: a biopsychosocial perspective
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Part of JCPP Advances, 2026
- DOI for Examining early inhibitory control and emotion regulation as predictors of childhood internalizing and externalizing problems: A longitudinal study
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Part of Behavioural Brain Research, 2026
- DOI for Developmental differences in reward-learning and its connection to resting-state functional connectivity modeled using a hierarchical Bayesian model
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Fear extinction retention in children, adolescents, and adults
Part of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2025
- DOI for Fear extinction retention in children, adolescents, and adults
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Part of Journal of Psychopharmacology, p. 836-846, 2025
- DOI for Acute effects of 150 mg caffeine on subjective, physiological, and behavioral components of anxiety in panic disorder and healthy controls - A randomized placebo-controlled crossover trial
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Part of Developmental Psychobiology, 2024
- DOI for The influence of anterior cingulate GABA+ and glutamate on emotion regulation and reactivity in adolescents and adults
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Part of Developmental Science, 2024
- DOI for A challenge to the expected: Lack of longitudinal associations between the early caregiving environment, executive functions in toddlerhood, and self-regulation at 6 years
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Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2024
- DOI for Investigating heart rate variability measures during pregnancy as predictors of postpartum depression and anxiety: an exploratory study
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Part of International Journal of Behavioral Development, p. 398-410, 2024
- DOI for Predicting emotion regulation in typically developing toddlers: Insights into the joint and unique influences of various contextual predictors
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Neural correlates of individual differences in multimodal emotion recognition ability
Part of Cortex, p. 1-11, 2024
- DOI for Neural correlates of individual differences in multimodal emotion recognition ability
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Part of Assessment, p. 588-601, 2024
- DOI for A Psychometric Evaluation of the Expanded Version of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS-II) in Children and Adolescents
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Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex activity during cognitive challenge in social anxiety disorder
Part of Behavioural Brain Research, 2023
- DOI for Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex activity during cognitive challenge in social anxiety disorder
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Part of Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 2023
- DOI for Acute caffeine differently affects risk-taking and the expression of BDNF and of adenosine and opioid receptors in rats with high or low anxiety-like behavior
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Part of Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, p. 1206-1215, 2023
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Blinding integrity of dorsomedial prefrontal intermittent theta burst stimulation in depression
Part of International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 2023
- DOI for Blinding integrity of dorsomedial prefrontal intermittent theta burst stimulation in depression
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Part of Behavioural Brain Research, 2023
- DOI for Acute low dose caffeine affects behavior profile and activity, an examination of male rats with high or low anxiety-like behavior
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Part of Developmental Psychobiology, 2023
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Part of Behavioural Brain Research, 2023
- DOI for Pupil dilation during negative prediction errors is related to brain choline concentration and depressive symptoms in adolescents
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Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2022
- DOI for Serotonin and dopamine transporter availability in social anxiety disorder after combined treatment with escitalopram and cognitive-behavioral therapy
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Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2022
- DOI for Application of positron emission tomography in psychiatry-methodological developments and future directions
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2022
- DOI for Evaluating an internet-delivered fear conditioning and extinction protocol using response times and affective ratings
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Part of Frontiers in Neurology, 2022
- DOI for Similar Profile and Magnitude of Cognitive Impairments in Focal and Generalized Epilepsy: A Pilot Study
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Part of Learning and Motivation, 2022
- DOI for Internet-delivered approach-avoidance conflict task shows temporal stability and relation to trait anxiety
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Dopamine and fear memory formation in the human amygdala
Part of Molecular Psychiatry, p. 1704-1711, 2022
- DOI for Dopamine and fear memory formation in the human amygdala
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GABA quantification in human anterior cingulate cortex
Part of PLOS ONE, 2021
- DOI for GABA quantification in human anterior cingulate cortex
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Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2021
- DOI for Expectancy effects on serotonin and dopamine transporters during SSRI treatment of social anxiety disorder: a randomized clinical trial
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Delayed gaze shifts away from others' eyes in children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder
Part of Journal of Affective Disorders, p. 280-287, 2021
- DOI for Delayed gaze shifts away from others' eyes in children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder
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Enriching CBT by Neuroscience: Novel Avenues to Achieve Personalized Treatments
Part of International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, p. 182-195, 2021
- DOI for Enriching CBT by Neuroscience: Novel Avenues to Achieve Personalized Treatments
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Part of Molecular Psychiatry, p. 3970-3979, 2021
- DOI for Expression and co-expression of serotonin and dopamine transporters in social anxiety disorder: a multitracer positron emission tomography study
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Part of Journal of Psychopharmacology, p. 1536-1541, 2021
- DOI for Habitual caffeine consumption moderates the antidepressant effect of dorsomedial intermittent theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation
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Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2020
- DOI for Decrease in amygdala activity during repeated exposure to spider images predicts avoidance behavior in spider fearful individuals
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Higher- and lower-order personality traits and cluster subtypes in social anxiety disorder
Part of PLOS ONE, 2020
- DOI for Higher- and lower-order personality traits and cluster subtypes in social anxiety disorder
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Part of Journal of Affective Disorders, p. 230-237, 2020
- DOI for Neuroimaging, genetic, clinical, and demographic predictors of treatment response in patients with social anxiety disorder
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Social support modulates subjective and neural responses to sad mental imagery
Part of Behavioural Brain Research, 2020
- DOI for Social support modulates subjective and neural responses to sad mental imagery
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Part of Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, p. 1179-1185, 2019
- DOI for Soothing the emotional brain: modulation of neural activity to personal emotional stimulation by social touch
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Part of Translational Psychiatry, p. 168, 2018
- DOI for Association between amygdala neurokinin-1 receptor availability and anxiety-related personality traits
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Brain changes in social anxiety disorder run in the family
Part of EBioMedicine, p. 5-6, 2018
- DOI for Brain changes in social anxiety disorder run in the family
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Part of Psychiatry Research, p. 56-61, 2018
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Part of BJPsych bulletin, 2018
- DOI for Anterior cingulate cortex activity as a candidate biomarker for treatment selection in social anxiety disorder
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Voxel-based morphometry multi-center mega-analysis of brain structure in social anxiety disorder
Part of NeuroImage, p. 678-688, 2017
- DOI for Voxel-based morphometry multi-center mega-analysis of brain structure in social anxiety disorder
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Part of EBioMedicine, p. 179-188, 2017
- DOI for Do You Believe It? Verbal Suggestions Influence the Clinical and Neural Effects of Escitalopram in Social Anxiety Disorder: A Randomized Trial
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Common and Distinct Gray Matter Alterations in Social Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder
Part of EBioMedicine, p. 53-54, 2017
- DOI for Common and Distinct Gray Matter Alterations in Social Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder
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Increased serotonin 1A receptor availability in the raphe nuclei predicts future suicidal behaviour
Part of Evidence-Based Mental Health, 2017
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Part of Behavioural Brain Research, p. 125-129, 2017
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Part of American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, p. 263-274, 2017
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Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2017
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Alterations in the serotonergic and substance P systems in posttraumatic stress disorder
Part of Molecular Psychiatry, p. 1323-1323, 2016
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The effect of combined hormonal contraceptives use on brain reactivity during response inhibition
Part of European journal of contraception & reproductive health care, p. 150-157, 2016
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Neuroplasticity in response to cognitive behavior therapy for social anxiety disorder
Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2016
- DOI for Neuroplasticity in response to cognitive behavior therapy for social anxiety disorder
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Part of Molecular Psychiatry, p. 1400-1407, 2016
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Part of Journal of Psychopharmacology, p. 1028-1035, 2016
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Part of European Neuropsychopharmacology, p. 1775-1783, 2016
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Use of 5-Hydroxytryptophan Labeled With Carbon 11 in Social Anxiety Disorder Reply
Part of JAMA psychiatry, p. 177-178, 2016
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Part of British Journal of Psychiatry, p. 229-235, 2016
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Part of Current Biology, p. 2690-95, 2016
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Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2015
- DOI for Predicting long-term outcome of Internet-delivered cognitive behavior therapy for social anxiety disorder using fMRI and support vector machine learning
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Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2015
- DOI for Increased neurokinin-1 receptor availability in the amygdala in social anxiety disorder: a positron emission tomography study with [(11)C]GR205171
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Serotonin Synthesis and Reuptake in Social Anxiety Disorder: A Positron Emission Tomography Study.
Part of JAMA psychiatry, p. 794-802, 2015
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2015
- DOI for Disruption of Memory Reconsolidation Erases a Fear Memory Trace in the Human Amygdala: An 18-Month Follow-Up.
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Human serotonin transporter availability predicts fear conditioning
Part of International Journal of Psychophysiology, p. 515-519, 2015
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Enlargement of visual processing regions in social anxiety disorder is related to symptom severity
Part of Neuroscience Letters, p. 114-119, 2014
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Part of Behavioural Brain Research, p. 330-335, 2014
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Altered fusiform connectivity during processing of fearful faces in social anxiety disorder
Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2013
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Validation of parametric methods for [(11)C]PE2I positron emission tomography
Part of NeuroImage, p. 172-178, 2013
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Part of Psychoneuroendocrinology, p. 1133-1144, 2013
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Part of Psychiatry Research, p. 229-237, 2013
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Cortical thickness alterations in social anxiety disorder
Part of Neuroscience Letters, p. 52-55, 2013
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Disruption of reconsolidation erases a fear memory trace in the human amygdala
Part of Science, p. 1550-1552, 2012
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Relationships between the National Adult Reading Test and memory.
Part of Neuropsychology, p. 397-403, 2011
Articles, review/survey
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Part of General Hospital Psychiatry, p. 22-31, 2022
- DOI for Effects of caffeine on anxiety and panic attacks in patients with panic disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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Quantitative positron emission tomography in brain research
Part of Brain Research, p. 220-234, 2017