Mats Fredrikson
Professor emeritus at Department of Psychology; Emotion Psychology
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 660 85 93
- E-mail:
- Mats.Fredrikson@psyk.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1A och 1C
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 1225
751 42 UPPSALA
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Publications
Recent publications
Neural evidence for the effects of behavioral memory updating following fear conditioning
Part of COMMUNICATIONS PSYCHOLOGY, 2025
- DOI for Neural evidence for the effects of behavioral memory updating following fear conditioning
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Part of American Journal of Psychiatry, p. 728-740, 2024
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 Pain, p. 489-495, 2022
- DOI for Whiplash injuries associated with experienced pain and disability can be visualized with [11C]-D-deprenyl positron emission tomography and computed tomography
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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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Neural evidence for the effects of behavioral memory updating following fear conditioning
Part of COMMUNICATIONS PSYCHOLOGY, 2025
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Part of American Journal of Psychiatry, p. 728-740, 2024
Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex activity during cognitive challenge in social anxiety disorder
Part of Behavioural Brain Research, 2023
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Part of Pain, p. 489-495, 2022
- DOI for Whiplash injuries associated with experienced pain and disability can be visualized with [11C]-D-deprenyl positron emission tomography and computed tomography
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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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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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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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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 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
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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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Part of BMJ Open, p. 1-7, 2019
- DOI for Health-related quality of life among frequent attenders in Swedish primary care: a cross-sectional observational study
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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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Cognitive behavioral therapy for frequent attenders in primary care
Part of Health Science Reports, 2018
- DOI for Cognitive behavioral therapy for frequent attenders in primary care
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Part of Neuropsychopharmacology, p. 555-563, 2018
Part of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, p. 113-119, 2018
Part of Psychiatry Research, p. 56-61, 2018
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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Changes in brain architecture are consistent with altered fear processing in domestic rabbits
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 7380-7385, 2018
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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Part of Brain Research, p. 102-115, 2017
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Pain, p. 418-424, 2017
Part of Behavioural Brain Research, p. 125-129, 2017
Disruption of human fear reconsolidation using imaginal and in vivo extinction
Part of Behavioural Brain Research, p. 9-15, 2017
Part of Psychiatry Research, p. 85-90, 2017
- DOI for Within-session effect of repeated stress exposure on extinction circuitry function in social anxiety disorder
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Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2017
Alterations in the serotonergic and substance P systems in posttraumatic stress disorder
Part of Molecular Psychiatry, p. 1323-1323, 2016
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
- DOI for Unilateral Resection of the Anterior Medial Temporal Lobe Impairs Odor Identification and Valence Perception
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Decreased Brain Neurokinin-1 Receptor Availability in Chronic Tennis Elbow
Part of PLOS ONE, 2016
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Part of Molecular Psychiatry, p. 1400-1407, 2016
Initial Sleep Time Predicts Success in Manual-Guided Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
Part of Behavioural Sleep Medicine, p. 378-388, 2016
Part of Journal of Psychopharmacology, p. 1028-1035, 2016
Part of European Neuropsychopharmacology, p. 1775-1783, 2016
Part of British Journal of Psychiatry, p. 229-235, 2016
Part of Current Biology, p. 2690-95, 2016
Different genetic factors underlie fear conditioning and episodic memory
Part of Psychiatric Genetics, p. 155-162, 2015
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
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
Part of Sleep, p. 1815-1822, 2015
Reduced Serotonin Synthesis after Pharmacological Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2015
Part of Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 2015
Association between amygdala reactivity and a dopamine transporter gene polymorphism
Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2014
Enlargement of visual processing regions in social anxiety disorder is related to symptom severity
Part of Neuroscience Letters, p. 114-119, 2014
Part of International Journal of Psychophysiology, p. 225-231, 2014
Amygdala-frontal couplings characterizing SSRI and placebo response in social anxiety disorder
Part of International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, p. 1149-1157, 2014
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2014
Serotonin Transporter Binding in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Measured with [11c]-DASB
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2014
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2014
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2014
Part of Behavioural Brain Research, p. 330-335, 2014
Part of Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, p. 3, 2014
Medial temporal lobe resection attenuates superior temporal sulcus response to faces
Part of Neuropsychologia, p. 291-298, 2014
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder and prefrontal reactivity during anticipation of emotional stimuli
Part of European Neuropsychopharmacology, p. 1474-1483, 2013
Learned Cardiac Control with Heart Rate Biofeedback Transfers to Emotional Reactions
Part of PLOS ONE, 2013
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Part of Psychoneuroendocrinology, p. 1133-1144, 2013
Disruption of Fear Reconsolidation by Extinction and the G-703T Gene Polymorphism
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2013
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2013
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2013
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2013
Altered Amygdala but not Default Mode Network Functional Connectivity in Social Anxiety Disorder
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2013
Human fear reconsolidation and allelic differences in serotonergic and dopaminergic genes
Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2012
Part of European Neuropsychopharmacology, p. 562-568, 2012
Amygdala Subregions Tied to SSRI and Placebo Response in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder
Part of Neuropsychopharmacology, p. 2222-2232, 2012
Disruption of reconsolidation erases a fear memory trace in the human amygdala
Part of Science, p. 1550-1552, 2012
Emotion Regulation with Online Heart Rate-Based Biofeedback
Part of Psychophysiology, 2012
Amygdala response to SSRIs in social anxiety disorder
Part of International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, p. 230-230, 2012
Part of Behavioral and Brain Functions, p. 47, 2011
Part of Psychophysiology, p. 1463-1469, 2011
Neurofunctional correlates of expressed vocal affect in social phobia
Part of Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, p. 413-425, 2011
Part of PLoS ONE, 2011
Part of Epilepsy Research, p. 183-189, 2011
Neural Correlates of Anxiety States in Patients with Social Anxiety Disorder
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2011
Part of Archives of Women's Mental Health, p. 417-423, 2010
Ventromedial prefrontal neurokinin 1 receptor availability is reduced in chronic pain
Part of Pain, p. 64-70, 2010
The effects of medial temporal lobe resections on verbal threat and fear conditioning
Part of Biological Psychology, p. 41-46, 2010
Arousal enhanced memory retention is eliminated following temporal lobe resection
Part of Brain and Cognition, p. 176-179, 2010
Manifesto for a European anxiety disorders research network
Part of European Neuropsychopharmacology, p. 426-32, 2010
Age and Sex Differences in NK1 Receptor Availability Assessed with [11C]GR205171
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2010
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2010
Part of Psychiatry Research, p. 103-108, 2009
Chronic whiplash symptoms are related to altered regional cerebral blood flow in the resting state
Part of European Journal of Pain, p. 65-70, 2009
Bodily arousal gates amygdala-hippocampal interaction in phobic memory encoding
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2009
Part of NeuroImage, p. 815-820, 2009
Genotype over-diagnosis in amygdala responsiveness: affective processing in social anxiety disorder
Part of Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, p. 30-40, 2009
Part of Biological Psychiatry, p. 124, 2009
The genetic covariation between fear conditioning and self-report fears
Part of Biological Psychiatry, p. 587-593, 2008
Part of Journal of Neuroscience, 2008
Functional connectivity of the amygdala in specific phobia
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2008
Part of Journal of rehabilitation, p. 13, 2008
Part of Biological Psychiatry, p. 553, 2008
In a nervous voice: Acoustic analysis and perception of anxiety in social phobics' speech
Part of Journal of nonverbal behavior, p. 195-214, 2008
Effective brain connectivity in social anxiety disorder: a Bayesian approach
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 2007
Symptom provocation in specific phobia affects the substance P neurokinin-1 receptor systems
Part of Biological Psychiatry, p. 1002-1006, 2007
Part of Audiology & neuro-otology, p. 301-309, 2006
Part of Psychosomatic Medicine, p. 859-862, 2006
Behov av randomiserade kontrollerade studier av psykodynamisk psykoterapi.
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 563-564, 2006
Retrospenial cortical deactivation during painful stimulation of fibromyalgic patients.
Part of Int J Neurosci, p. 1-8, 2006
Part of Neuroscience Letters, 2005
Reply to M.A. Persinger and S. A. Koren’s letter to the editor. Neuroscience Letters.
Part of Neuroscience Letters, 2005
Trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder in the general population
Part of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, p. 291-299, 2005
Part of Biol Psychiatry, p. 132-42, 2005
Part of Health Psychology, p. 77-87, 2005
Part of Neuroscience Letters, p. 189-192, 2004
Anxiety related brain mechanisms in social anxiety disorder.
Part of Journal of Psychosomatic Research, p. 587-588, 2004
Social phobia and avoidant personality disorder: One spectrum disorder?
Part of Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, p. 147-152, 2004
Part of European Journal of Neuroscience, p. 1325-1331, 2003
A twin study of the genetics of fear conditioning.
Part of Arch Gen Psychiatry, p. 702-8, 2003
Retrosplenial cortical activation in the fibromyalgia syndrome.
Part of Neuroreport, p. 619-21, 2003
Part of Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, p. 341-347, 2003
The human startle reflex and pons activation: a regional cerebral blood flow study
Part of European Journal of Neuroscience, p. 395-398, 2002
Neurofunctional correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder: a PET symptom provocation study
Part of European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, p. 68-75, 2002
Part of Archives of General Psychiatry, p. 425-433, 2002
Cerebral blood flow during anticipation of public speaking in social phobia: a PET study.
Part of Biological Psychiatry, p. 1113-1119, 2002
Right-sided human prefrontal brain activation during acquisition of conditioned fear.
Part of Emotion, p. 233-41, 2002
Human fear conditioning is related to dopaminergic and serotonergic biological markers
Part of BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE, p. 358-364, 2001
Part of Neuroscience Letters, p. 101-104, 2001
Part of Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, p. 98, 2001
The human startle response and activation of the pons.
Part of NeuroImage, 2001
Presynaptic serotonin imaging in social phobia using [3-11C]-5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan and PET
Part of Neuroimage, p. 1070, 2001
Pessimism and amygdala activity: A PET study
Part of NEUROIMAGE, p. 398, 2001
Personality traits in social phobia.
Part of Eur Psychiatry, p. 143-50, 2001
Slutsatserna kvarstår om psykodynamiska metoder vid ångest
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 3927, 2001
Part of Behav Res Ther, p. 289-98, 2001
Part of Acta Otolaryngol, p. 967-72, 2000
Brain representation of habituation to repeated complex visual stimulation studied with PET.
Part of Neuroreport, p. 123-6, 2000
Articles, review/survey
Part of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, p. 430-437, 2018
Part of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, p. 747-756, 2012
Imaging the placebo response: a neurofunctional review
Part of European Neuropsychopharmacology, p. 473-485, 2008
Part of Scandinavian journal of psychology, p. 254-274, 1991
Physiological responses to stressors: Implications for clinical assesment
Part of Psychological assessment, p. 350-355, 1991
Cardiovascular responses to behavioral stress and hypertension: A meta-analytic review
Part of Annals of behavioral medicine, p. 254-374, 1990
Fobiska reaktioner simulerade i laboratoriemiljö
Part of Nordisk tidsskrift för beteendeterapi, 1978
Chapters in book
Neurotransmission: A review of PET and SPECT studies in anxiety disorders
Part of PET and SPECT in Psychiatry, p. 349-370, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2014
Revealing the biological underpinnings of tha placebo response
Part of Advances in Psychology Research, p. 85-104, Nova Science Publishers, 2010
Manligt, kvinnligt, ängsligt: Om hjärnan och ångestreaktioner
Part of Från kvinnohälsa till genusmedicin, p. 119-141, FAS, Forskningsrådet för arbetsliv och socialvetenskap, 2010
Brain mechanisms in stress and negative affect
Part of Handbook of stress, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2006
Hjärnans roll i stress och negativ affekt
Part of Stress. , p. 141-149, Liber, 2005
Part of Vår tids psykologi, p. 91-132, Natur och Kultur, Stockholm, 2005
Brain imaging studies in social anxiety disorder
Part of Social anxiety disorder, p. 215-233, Decker, New York, 2004
Brain imaging in affective neuroscience
Part of The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, 3rd edition, vol 1, p. 234-236, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2001
Hyperreactivity (cardiovascular)
Part of Encyclopedia of stress, Academic press, 2000
Psychophysiological and biochemical indices in stress
Part of Handbook of clinical psychophysiology, John Wiley & Sons, 1989
Part of Activation and arousal. Report from the commision of the European communities medical and public health programme 1986, 1986
Behavioral aspects of cardiovascular reactivity in essential hypertension
Part of Biological and psychological factors in cardiovascular disease, Springer-verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1986
Conference papers
Rewarded approach of threatening spiders engages areas of the mesolimbic dopamine system
2016
2015
Serotonin Transporter Binding In Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Measured With [11C]-DASB
2014
2014
2014
Amygdala and Default Mode Network Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Social Anxiety Disorder
2014
2014
2014
Neural processing of emotional faces in social anxiety disorder
2012
Brain-body interactions in emotional memory
2012
Brain-body interactions in emotional memory
2012
2012
Emotion regulation with online heart-rate based biofeedback
2012
No link between amygdala reactivity to emotional faces and fear conditioning
2012
No link between amygdalareactivity to emotional faces and fear conditioning
2012
Neural processing of emotionalfaces in social anxiety disorder
2012
Part of Biol. Psychiatry 69, 70S-71S, 2011
Effective Connectivity of Fear Circuitry and Emotion Regulation in Specific Phobia
2011
2011
Cortico-Striatal Substance P Release Correlates with Phobia Related Trait Anxiety
2010
Part of Biol. Psychiatry 67, 34S-34S, 2010
Influence of the COMT Val158Met polymorphism on amygdala reactivity in social anxiety disorder.
Part of Biol. Psychiatry 65, 126S-126S, p. 420, 2009
Part of Biol. Psychiatry 65, 126S-127S, p. 421, 2009
Altered NK1-receptor availability in patients with post traumatic stress disorder
Part of [Biological Psychiatry 2009, 65(8), Suppl. 1, 118S, no. 394], 2009
Part of Proceedings of the LREC 2008 Workshop on Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect, p. 44-47, 2008
p. 543, 2008
Enhanced amygdalar NK1-receptor availability in patients with social anxiety disorder.
Part of Biological Psychiatry, p. 147, 2007
2007
Altered serotonin transporter function in post traumatic stress disorder
Part of Biological Psychiatry, p. 98, 2007
Serotonin-1A receptor allelic variation and brain endophenotypes: A PET study of social phobia
2006
2006
2006
2005
Sites of action of cognitive and drug therapies in anxiety
2005
Neurofunctional placebo response in social anxiety disorder during public speech
2005
Amygdalar activity during emotional perception and experience in subjects with social phobia
2005
Serotonin transporter genetic variation, amygdala activity and symptom severity in social phobia.
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 55, Suppl. 8, 2004
State Anxiety and Social Phobia: A PET Study
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 55, Suppl. 8 (Biol. Psychiatry 55, 57S-57S), 2004
Central neural correlates of salivary cortisol during stress in subjects with social phobia
Part of Biological Psychiatry, 55, Suppl. 8, 2004
Central neural correlates of salivary cortisol in social phobics performing a speech
Part of Psychophysiology, 40, Suppl. 1, 2003
Changes in cerebral blood flow during cognitive distraction in tinnitus patients
2002
Part of Neuroimage, Abstract from: Eight International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 2-6, 2002 Sendai, Japan, 2002
Tinnitus: Funktionell neuroanatomi
Part of Svensk ÖHN-tidskrift, p. 21, 2000
Functional neuroanatomy of anticipatory anxiety in social phobics: A PET study
Part of Neuroimage, vol 11, 2000
Part of Neuroimage, vol 11, 2000
Neurofunctional correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder: A PET case study
Part of NeuroImage, p. 632, 1999
Funktionell neuroanatomi vid tinnitus
Part of Svenska läkaresällskapets riksstämma, p. 283, 1999