Lars Vedel Kessing

ORCID: 0000-0001-9377-9436
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Research Areas
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Electrolyte and hormonal disorders
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry

Rigshospitalet
2016-2025

University of Copenhagen
2016-2025

Frederiksberg Hospital
2023-2025

Mental Health Services
2006-2025

Capital Region of Denmark
2006-2025

Copenhagen University Hospital
2015-2024

University of Gothenburg
2024

ORCID
2023

Aarhus University Hospital
1998-2022

Universidad de Antioquia
2022

As the COVID‐19 pandemic has largely increased utilization of telehealth, mobile mental health technologies – such as smartphone apps, vir­tual reality, chatbots, and social media have also gained attention. These digital offer potential accessible scalable interventions that can augment traditional care. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive update on overall field psychiatry, covering three areas. First, outline relevance recent technological advances to research care, by detailing how...

10.1002/wps.20883 article EN World Psychiatry 2021-09-09

Millions of women worldwide use hormonal contraception. Despite the clinical evidence an influence contraception on some women's mood, associations between and mood disturbances remain inadequately addressed.To investigate whether is positively associated with subsequent antidepressants a diagnosis depression at psychiatric hospital.This nationwide prospective cohort study combined data from National Prescription Register Psychiatric Central Research in Denmark. All adolescents aged 15 to 34...

10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.2387 article EN JAMA Psychiatry 2016-09-28

Individuals with mental disorders often develop comorbidity over time. Past studies of have restricted analyses to a subset and few provided absolute risks later comorbidity.To undertake comprehensive study within disorders, by providing temporally ordered age- sex-specific pairwise estimates between the major groups an interactive website visualize all results guide future research clinical practice.This population-based cohort included individuals born in Denmark January 1, 1900, December...

10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2018.3658 article EN JAMA Psychiatry 2019-01-16

<b>Objective:</b> Several findings suggest that some patients with depressive or bipolar disorder may be at increased risk of developing dementia. The present study aimed to investigate whether the dementia increases number affective episodes in and disorder. <b>Methods:</b> This was a case register including all hospital admissions primary Denmark during 1970–99. effect prior leading admission on rate readmission diagnosis following first discharge after 1985 estimated. A total 18 726 4248...

10.1136/jnnp.2003.031773 article EN Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2004-11-17

An increasing number of pervasive healthcare systems are being designed, that allow people to monitor and get feedback on their health wellness. To address the challenges self-management mental illnesses, we have developed MONARCA system - a personal monitoring for bipolar patients. We conducted 14 week field trial in which 12 patients used system, report findings focusing experiences. The results were positive; compared using paper-based forms, adherence self-assessment improved; was...

10.1145/2470654.2481364 article EN 2013-04-27

Changes in speech have been suggested as sensitive and valid measures of depression mania bipolar disorder. The present study aimed at investigating (1) voice features collected during phone calls objective markers affective states disorder (2) if combining with automatically generated smartphone data on behavioral activities (for example, number text messages per day) electronic self-monitored (mood) illness activity would increase the accuracy a marker states. Using smartphones, features,...

10.1038/tp.2016.123 article EN cc-by Translational Psychiatry 2016-07-19

<h3>Importance</h3> Results from animal and human studies suggest that lithium in therapeutic doses may improve learning memory modify the risk of developing dementia. Additional preliminary subtherapeutic levels, including microlevels lithium, influence cognition. <h3>Objective</h3> To investigate whether incidence dementia general population covaries with long-term exposure to drinking water. <h3>Design, Setting, Participants</h3> This Danish nationwide, population-based, nested...

10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.2362 article EN JAMA Psychiatry 2017-08-25

Abstract Objectives To aid the development of treatment for cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder, International Society Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) convened a task force to create consensus‐based guidance paper methodology and design cognition trials disorder. Methods The was launched September 2016, consisting 18 international experts from nine countries. A series methodological issues were identified based on literature review expert opinion. discussed expanded upon an initial...

10.1111/bdi.12534 article EN cc-by-nc Bipolar Disorders 2017-09-12

Bipolar disorder is heterogeneous in phenomenology, illness trajectory, and response to treatment. Despite evidence for the efficacy of multimodal-ity interventions, majority persons affected by this do not achieve sustain full syndromal recovery. It eagerly anticipated that combining datasets across various information sources (e.g., hierarchical "multi-omic" measures, electronic health records), analyzed using advanced computational methods machine learning), will inform future diagnosis...

10.1002/wps.20997 article EN World Psychiatry 2022-09-08

Background. A review of studies cognition in the euthymic phase unipolar and bipolar affective disorder reveals diverging results. Methods. The study was designed as a controlled cohort study, with Danish psychiatric case register admissions used to identify patients civil controls. Patients who were hospitalized between 19 25 years ago an diagnosis at interviews fulfilled criteria for primary or disorder, according ICD-10, compared age- gender-matched Interviews assessment cognitive...

10.1017/s0033291798006862 article EN Psychological Medicine 1998-09-01
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