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In addition to memory problems and other cognitive symptoms, most people with Alzheimer’s disease also suffer from mental health issues. It has long been unclear whether these occur because of tissue changes in the brain, or whether they represent psychological reactions to cognitive symptoms. A study from Lund University in Sweden has provided new insight, and is published in Biological Psychiatr

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/psychiatric-symptoms-alzheimers-disease - 2025-11-17

A large study led by Lund University in Sweden has shown that people with Alzheimer's disease can now be identified before they experience any symptoms. It is now also possible to predict who will deteriorate within the next few years. The study is published in Nature Medicine, and is very timely in light of the recent development of new drugs for Alzheimer's disease. It has long been known that t

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/alzheimers-disease-can-be-diagnosed-symptoms-emerge - 2025-11-17

Missiologist Mika Vähäkangas thinks that Scandinavians can be a little self-righteous. He says that he has become who he is in great part thanks to his research in Africa – there he learnt what he knows about compassion.  Over nearly thirty years, he first carried out missionary work and then research, teaching and fieldwork in Africa on African Christianity.    "It has always been Africa. My pare

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/africa-has-given-me-more-i-could-ever-give-back - 2025-11-17

Kriget i Gaza har skapat konflikter på universitet i Sverige och i andra länder. Motsättningarna mellan demonstranter och universitetsledningar och mellan grupper av anställda lär ta tid att överbrygga. Vi har träffat både LU:s rektor och demonstranter från tältlägret i Lundagård. I LUM ger de sin syn på vägen framåt. Vi har också intervjuat Lundaforskare med vitt skilda specialiteter och frågat h

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/efter-palestinagard-vad-hander-nu - 2025-11-18

Den unge journalisten hade mer än hundra timmar intervjuer med den förre sovjetiske spionchefen. Det skulle bli en memoarbok men tiden sprang iväg och plötsligt var marknaden mättad på sovjetkommunistiska bekännelser. Tjugo år senare har vinden vänt. Så det blir en bok, men inga memoarer – för nu är det inte en ung journalist utan en medelålders historieforskare som håller i pennan. Före detta hög

https://www.lu.se/artikel/utforskar-minnen-hos-gammal-sovjetspion - 2025-11-17

How can we understand today’s global collective body of anxiety? The fear of the other? War and hostility? Such topics will be explored in five separate conversations with prominent and innovative scholars, formed as dialogues where the audience is invited to actively participate. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is holding a conversation series on passion in relation to contemporary global p

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/arjun-appadurai-and-maria-frederika-malmstrom-about-passion-and-politics - 2025-11-17

Three conferences will be held in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the United Kingdom supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) in 2017 and 2018. The name is "Comparative Peacebuilding in Asia - Liberal and Illiberal Transitions from Ethnic Conflict and Authoritarianism". This series of three conferences seeks to promote research and

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/conference-comparative-peacebuilding-asia - 2025-11-17

Deadline: 15 October 2014 Conference dates: 11-14 August 2015 The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will hold its 8th conference from 11 to 14 August 2015 at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria. As an international and multi-disciplinary organisation, EuroSEAS invites scholars and PhD students from all academic disciplines with

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-panel-proposals-8th-euroseas-conference-vienna - 2025-11-17

I övergången till fossilfria lösningar är biobaserade produkter och bränslen en nyckelfråga, menar många. Till årsskiftet startar en ny forskarskola vid Lunds universitet som banar vägen för ett större helhetstänkande inom detta område, ofta kallat cirkulär bioekonomi. Deniz Koca. Foto: Helena Bergström Deniz Koca är forskare vid Centrum för miljö- och klimatforskning, CEC, och har med några andra

https://www.lu.se/artikel/ny-tvarvetenskaplig-forskarskola-i-bioekonomi - 2025-11-17

For the first time, researchers have been able to prove that city lights limit the ability of nocturnal animals to navigate by natural light in the night sky. Instead, they are forced to use streetlamps, neon light or floodlights to orient themselves. The findings are published in Current Biology. Some animals, including migratory birds, seals and moths, use light from the moon, stars and Milky Wa

https://www.science.lu.se/article/artificial-light-disrupts-dung-beetles-sense-direction - 2025-11-17

How creative are research studies? What can be done to make them more creative? LUM has met Samuel West, who is not only a doctoral student, but who actually does research on creativity. Samuel West had worked as a psychologist for many years when he decided four years ago to do a PhD. Now he is looking back on his research studies, which will soon be finished, and doesn’t regret it, although his

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-searching-creativity-outside-academy - 2025-11-17

When we are summing up 2023, we can confirm that Lund University consolidates its position as Sweden’s leading university in the Horizon Europe, and climbs to the top ten in Europe. In September, LU-nytt reported on Lund University’s successful outcome in this spring’s calls within the EU framework programme for research and innovation, Horizon Europe. Contracts have now been signed for the collab

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lund-university-top-ten-horizon-europe - 2025-11-18

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered thirteen new species of extinct brittle stars on the island of Gotland, Sweden. The fossils were dug out of rocks from the Silurian Period (around 444 to 419 million years ago). The species have now been named after several famous hard rock musicians and bands. Ophiuroids are a group of echinoderms closely related to starfish. Their bodies c

https://www.science.lu.se/article/extinct-brittle-stars-named-after-death-metal-bands - 2025-11-17

How can the process of creating a touristic offer be described? Manuela Kronen reconstructed a rural development project that had led to the creation of ten biking trails. Tourism researcher Manuela Kronen found reference to ”uniqueness” in the marketing of completely diverse Swedish destinations. She wanted to investigate how the concept could be used to develop a touristic offer.For her thesis,

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/looking-uniqueness-skane-countryside - 2025-11-17

High concentrations of salt in agricultural soil is an environmental problem that has plagued human civilization from its very beginning. Also in modern times, salinization of soils is a problem restricting agricultural productivity. Irrigation can make areas suitable for agriculture that would otherwise be too dry to support high crop yields. However, water used for irrigation of fields evaporate

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/intensified-irrigation-threatens-agricultural-productivity - 2025-11-18

The new Research Data Office is to make it easier for researchers to manage their research data throughout the research process. Improved and more accessible online support is now being launched in the form of unified webpages, a university-wide support service and a new, easier way to register research documents that requires neither a course nor logging in to the W3D3 system. Unified webpages on

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/researchers-get-improved-online-support-research-data-management - 2025-11-18

De har alla gett ut varsin bok i år, nått många läsare, fått goda recensioner, suttit i tv-soffor och intervjuats i radio och tidningar. LUM samlade professorerna Susanne Åkesson, Håkan Wallander och ­Anders Brodin för ett samtal om skrivandets kval och glädje och hur det ­kommer sig att de har en parallell karriär som författare utanför universitetet. I Under olivträdet tecknar Håkan Wallander en

https://www.lu.se/artikel/forfattarbiologer-i-ropet - 2025-11-18

The Swedish Migration Agency should speed up visa processing for international students and researchers – a move that Lund University has eagerly awaited. And more Swedish students should study abroad. These are two of the proposals in the report of the Swedish Government’s commission of inquiry on increased internationalisation at higher education institutions (HEIs). The long processing times at

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/visa-processing-should-speed-order-increase-internationalisation - 2025-11-17

Poverty reduction globally is one of the UN’s primary goals. But how can wealth and economic development be measured in a smart way? Artificial intelligence, AI, and satellite photos are able to give more effective and precise measurements, but will remote sensing technology ever be able to replace time-consuming interview surveys? In rich countries, GDP is the most common measure of a country’s w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/measuring-poverty-ai-and-satellite-photos - 2025-11-18

This year, the Centre for European Studies has awarded the 2020 Best Thesis Award to Kristy Louise Rhades for her thesis in the Master of Arts of European Studies. Note: this article was originally published on December 18, 2020.  Kristy Louise Rhades’ thesis is called “How European welfare states perpetuate the growth imperative and why alternatives are needed” and this is how the jury motivated

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/best-thesis-award-2020 - 2025-11-17