About UPIC

The self-reported mental health issues are increasing both in Sweden and globally. Notably, young people and young adults between 16 and 29 years old are experiencing heightened stress, worry, anxiety, and reduced mental well-being. This contributes to suffering and diminished hope for the future, shortened lifespan, and significant costs on both individual and societal levels.

The causes of this new mental health landscape are partially known, but crucial knowledge is still lacking. The "new mental health issues" manifest in different ways for different individuals, groups of individuals, and in various social contexts. It is clear that the established severe psychiatric conditions, such as psychoses and bipolar disorder, have not increased. Instead, a large group of conditions has emerged that partially share symptomatology with severe mental illness but exist in what could be considered a borderline area to mental illness.

UPIC's goal is to advance the knowledge regarding the many different expressions and manifestations of the "new mental health issues," to predict, prevent, and address them with high precision and in a timely manner. By combining scientific perspectives and methods, UPIC has a unique opportunity to address questions about young people's mental health in a multidimensional way, with the ultimate vision of creating hope and joy for life in the younger generation.

Within UPIC, researchers and doctoral students from public health, psychiatry, psychology, behavioral medicine, analytical chemistry, medical humanities, gynecology and obstetrics, human-computer interaction, epidemiology, social work, Here perspectives are combined and challenged.

At UPIC, we work interdisciplinarily for and with young people to contribute to their mental health and hope for the future!

UPIC has been made possible by a private donation. Ongoing research projects are funded by FORTE, the Swedish Research Council, and ALF.

Research is administratively supported by Uppsala University's Center for Women's Mental Health during the Reproductive Years (WOMHER).