| AdminHistory | Marie Åsberg (b.1938) is a Swedish psychiatrist. She published a pioneering paper on the link between low serotonin and violent suicide in 1976. Åsberg’s expertise is in exhaustion disorder and burnout and self-care needs, developing the concept of an ‘enhaustion funnel’. This illustrated how preoccupations can be narrowed by over-concentration on work.
Åsberg spent time in Gotland for research purposes in November 1968 with her friend David A Price Evans. This trip stimulated her interest in Linnaeus’ journeys through Öland and Gotland and so she decided to translate the Swedish accounts of his travels into English. The Society subsequently published the translated editions in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 5, Issue 1, March 1973.
In 2022, she won the 2022 ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award for her contributions to pharmacology and psychiatry. |