Management

AndersKorsgaard20141107TB_RH_100x130.jpg​Anders Korsgaard Christensen
Chief Psychologist





Contact

​Department of Traumatic Stress
​​Section​ 7622
Ole Maaløes Vej 26,
76, 2. floor
2100 København Ø
Denmark​

Tlf.: + 45 35 45 78 50 ​
Fax: + 45 35 45 78 52​​​

 News from Rigshospitalet

Associate professor Faisal Mohammad Amin will investigate and provide novel data on functional features of the migraine brain

This is to reveal migraine-specific biomarkers. The project will also reveal if migraine-specific drugs modulate brain dysfunction.

Australian professor honoured after long collaboration

This year, the international KFJ Award goes to Professor Mark Febbraio, who has been working with Copenhagen University Hospital - Rigshospitalet on research into the effect of physical activity on the immune system for more than two decades.

Gene therapy tested against muscular dystrophy

​The first patient with a specific type of muscular dystrophy has been treated using gene therapy. It is hoped the therapy will halt the disease. ​

Blood from donors of the same sex increases survival rates

Survival rates increase if patients undergoing a blood transfusion receive blood from a donor of the same sex, according to sensational new research from Rigshospitalet.

Patients with blood poisoning do not have to take so much fluid

Halving fluids to treat intensive-care patients with blood poisoning causes neither higher mortality nor more serious side effects according to a new trial. ​

Cornerstone laid for Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital

Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary has laid the cornerstone for Rigshospitalet's new hospital for children, teens, expecting mothers and their families. Mary Elizabeth’s Hospital - Rigshospitalet for Children, Teens and Expecting Families will be a pioneering hospital in which life abounds on the patients’ terms.

New brain-haemorrhage treatment tested on patients for the first time

Researchers from Rigshospitalet have launched first-in-human trials of a groundbreaking new treatment principle for brain haemorrhages. The professor behind the trials has been working on this breakthrough for 25 years, and he is now about to embark on the second treatment breakthrough in his career. ​​​

Good results with surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma

All the malignant pleural mesothelioma operations in Denmark are performed by just a small group of experts. This has led to large improvements in the survival rate for a disease that was untreatable 20 years ago.​

Alzheimer’s Disease: The Identification of 75 Genetic Risk Factors Brings New Insights

Researchers in Europe, the US and Australia have identified 75 regions of the genome that are associated with Alzheimer's disease. Forty-two of these regions are novel, meaning that they have never before been implicated in the disease.​​

Paracetamol can impair men’s ability to make women pregnant

New research has disconcerting news: Large quantities of paracetamol seem to affect the function of sperm cells and possibly men’s ability to make women pregnant.​