Lennart Wetterberg

Lennart Wetterberg is professor emeritus of psychiatry at Karolinska Institutet. He received his medical licence in Lund in 1959 and completed his PhD at Uppsala University in 1967. From 1968 to 1970, he carried out research at the University of California, Los Angeles. Upon his return to Sweden, among the topics he studied were melatonin and the effect of light on depression and sleep difficulties. In 1973 Wetterberg was named professor of psychiatry at Karolinska Institutet and also became a member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, which awards the annual prize in physiology or medicine. He installed the first MRI scanner in a psychiatric clinic at St Göran’s Hospital in 1984. Wetterberg was awarded Karolinska Institutet’s Pedagogical Prize in 1991 for his initiative to internationalise the education programme in psychiatry. After his retirement Wetterberg became a professor at Tromsö University and Oslo University in Norway, where among his activities he developed a new method for measuring the function of the olfactory cortex using infra-red spectroscopy (NIRS). Since 2008 Lennart Wetterberg has been a professor of psychiatry at Strömstad Academy.