Hilda Engelbrektsson

Research Engineer

I have a background in cognitive neuroscience and applied positive psychology. My main research interests concern stress and emotion regulation, treatments for mental health disorders (especially anxiety), and ways to enhance well-being.

Presentation

I am currently working as a research assistant in Leah Mayo's Affective Neuroscience Lab, and in India Morrison's Embodied Brain Lab.

The main study I am involved in is a clinical trial for a drug for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that Mayo is leading. I use both behavioral, psychophysiological (e.g. facial EMG), and brain imaging (e.g. fMRI) methods, and also handle blood samples for later analysis.

Publications

2022

Research

The Mayo Lab

We explore how humans perceive and react to stressful or emotional stimuli in order to better understand how these processes go awry in psychiatric diseases such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Morrison Lab

The Morrison Lab: Embodied Brain Lab investigates emotional and social aspects of both touch and pain, and how these influence - and are influenced by - behavior.

Organisation

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience - CSAN

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN) integrates knowledge and methodology from different areas of basic and clinical neuroscience.

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

What characterizes the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) is the wide breadth of research and education. BKV is one of the largest departments at LiU with affiliation mainly to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.