Marie Åsberg

Marie Åsberg is a Swedish psychiatrist. She was based at the Karolinska Institute until retirement in 2004.
In a pioneering 1976 paper, Åsberg found a link between low serotonin and violent suicide.
Åsberg is an expert on exhaustion disorder and burnout, and the need for self-care. She has developed the concept of an 'exhaustion funnel', to illustrate the way in which preoccupations can be narrowed by over-concentration on work.
She was the 2022 recipient of the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award, which recognises exceptional research achievements in applied and translational neuroscience.

Works

'5-HIAA in the Cerebrospinal Fluid: A Biochemical Suicide Predictor?', Archives of General Psychiatry. Vol. 33, pp.1193-1197.The CPRS : development and applications of a psychiatric rating scale. Copenhagen : Munksgaard, 1978.
'A New Depression Scale Designed to be Sensitive to Change'. Understanding obsessive-compulsive disorder : an international symposium held during the VIIIth World Congress of Psychiatry, Athens, Greece, October 1989. Toronto: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, 1991.
'Neurotransmitters and Suicidal Behavior: The evidence from cerebrospinal fluid studies', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006.