Maria Zetterqvist

Adjunct Associate Professor, Docent

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology with a focus on child and adolescent psychiatric activities.

Research

The Zetterqvist Lab

Our research group addresses nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) which is a significant mental health issue in adolescents and linked with impairments in emotion regulation. We are dedicated to developing novel approaches for preventing and treating NSSI.

Publications

Publications in DiVA

2026

Erik Aspeqvist, Hedvig Andersson, Örjan Dahlström, Laura Korhonen, Maria Zetterqvist (2026)

Lifetime Prevalence of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents: Reliability of a Dichotomous Survey Item International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, Vol. 35, Article e70115 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mpr.70115

Morgan Frost Karlsson, Maria Zetterqvist, Håkan Olausson, Rebecca Böhme (2026)

Attenuation of self-produced touch in the posterior insula reflects body image disturbances in anorexia nervosa Scientific Reports, Vol. 16, Article 29913 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-71154-5

Rebecca Böhme, Reinoud Kaldewaij, Morgan Frost Karlsson, Andrew Wold, Adam Enmalm, Isabel Khoure, Jonna Tell, Jessica Käll, Mimmi Salerud, Elin Rimhagen, Charlotte Jackleus, Sara Barsjö, Magnus Thordstein, Per Gustafsson, Håkan Olausson, Maria Zetterqvist (2026)

Theta burst stimulation of extrastriate body area for body perception in anorexia nervosa: a randomized controlled trial Translational Psychiatry, Vol. 16, Article 324 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41398-026-04235-8

News

SEK 10 million for research in children's medicine

The Joanna Cocozza Foundation has announced the recipients of research grants for 2020. Funding has been awarded in the form of establishment and consolidation grants, support for visiting researchers, and a further seven project grants.

Self-injuring young girls overestimate negative feedback in social media simulation

Adolescent girls who self-injure feel that they receive more negative feedback than they actually receive, and are more sensitive to thumbs down responses, compared to other girls. These are the findings presented by Irene Perini, researcher at CSAN.

Organisation

A researcher is looking at encased samples in a lab.

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.