Bianka Anna Karshikoff | University of Stavanger

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Faculty of Social Sciences

Institutt for psykologi

About me

Dr. Bianka Karshikoff is an Associate Professor working in the field of Psychoneuroimmunology, with a focus on inflammation in chronic pain. During her doctoral work at Karolinska Institutet, she used experimental inflammatory models in humans to study how inflammation affects the perception of pain, subjective mood, and brain function. She conducted her postdoctoral studies at Stanford University School of Medicine, focusing on inflammatory biomarkers in clinical pain populations. She is now investigating biomarker signatures for chronic pain progression and resilience.

Dr. Karshikoff is the group leader of the UiS Biopsychology Research Group. She is affiliated with Karolinska Institutet and is a member of the Steering Committee for the European Psychoneuroimmunology Network. She is serving on the Editorial Board for PlosOne, and regularly acts as a guest editor and reviewer for scientific journals. She teaches Health Psychology and Biological Psychology in the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Psychology.

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Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Bianka Karshikoff (2024) Why PNI scientists need to engage in exploratory hypothesis-generating biomarker studies. I: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health (BBI - Health). Online ISSN 2666-3546. Volum 42. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbih.2024.100904

Jenny L.M. Åström Reitan; Bianka Karshikoff; Linda Holmström; Mats Lekander; Mike K. Kemani; Rikard K. Wicksell (2024) Associations between sickness behavior, but not inflammatory cytokines, and psychiatric comorbidity in chronic pain. I: Psychoneuroendocrinology. ISSN 0306-4530. Volum 167. DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107094

Bianka Anna Karshikoff; Karin Wåhlén; Jenny Åström; Mats Lekander; Linda Holmström; Rikard K. Wicksell (2023) Inflammatory Blood Signature Related to Common Psychological Comorbidity in Chronic Pain. I: Biomedicines. Online ISSN 2227-9059. Volum 11. DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11030713

Sven Benson; Bianka Karshikoff (2023) How Can Experimental Endotoxemia Contribute to Our Understanding of Pain? A Narrative Review. I: Neuroimmunomodulation. ISSN 1021-7401. Volum 30. s.250-267. DOI: 10.1159/000534467

Arnaud Tognetti; Supreet Saluja; Nathalie Lybert; Julie Lasselin; Sandra Tamm; Catarina Lensmar; Bianka Karshikoff; Simon Cervenka; Mats Lekander; Mats J. Olsson (2023) Olfactory Cues of Naturally Occurring Systemic Inflammation: A Pilot Study of Seasonal Allergy. I: Neuroimmunomodulation. ISSN 1021-7401. Volum 30. s.338-345. DOI: 10.1159/000535047

Katherine T. Martucci; Bianka Karshikoff; Sean C. Mackey (2023) Links between brain neuroimaging and blood inflammatory markers in urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome. I: Physiology and Behavior. ISSN 0031-9384. Volum 271. DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2023.114358

Amy R. Gordon; Johan N. Lundström; Bruce A. Kimball; Bianka Karshikoff; Kimmo Sorjonen; John Axelsson; Mats Lekander; Mats J. Olsson (2023) Human scent as a first-line defense against disease. I: Scientific Reports. Online ISSN 2045-2322. Volum 13. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-43145-3

Bianka Anna Karshikoff; Jenny Åström; Linda Holmström; Mats Lekander; Mike K. Kemani; Rikard K. Wicksell (2022) Baseline Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Levels Moderate Psychological Inflexibility in Behavioral Treatment for Chronic Pain. I: Journal of Clinical Medicine. Online ISSN 2077-0383. Volum 11. DOI: 10.3390/jcm11092285

Sandra Tamm; Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2021) Objective and Subjective Sleep in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Severe Seasonal Allergy: Preliminary Assessments of the Role of Sickness, Central and Peripheral Inflammation. I: Nature and Science of Sleep. Online ISSN 1179-1608.

Kristoffer N. T. Månsson; Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2021) Anterior insula morphology and vulnerability to psychopathology-related symptoms in response to acute inflammation. I: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. ISSN 0889-1591. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2021.09.007

Jenny Åström; Linda Holmström; Bianka Anna Karshikoff; Anna Andreasson; Mike K. Kemani (2021) Evaluating the construct validity and internal consistency of the Sickness Questionnaire in a Swedish sample of adults with longstanding pain. I: Scandinavian Journal of Pain. ISSN 1877-8860. DOI: 10.1515/sjpain-2021-0070

Bianka Anna Karshikoff; Katherine T. Martucci; Sean Mackey (2021) Relationship Between Blood Cytokine Levels, Psychological Comorbidity, and Widespreadness of Pain in Chronic Pelvic Pain. I: Frontiers in Psychiatry. Online ISSN 1664-0640. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.05.001

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2020) Patients with ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and chronic pain report similar level of sickness behavior as individuals injected with bacterial endotoxin at peak inflammation.. I: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health (BBI - Health). Online ISSN 2666-3546. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbih.2019.100028

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2020) Fatigue and sleepiness responses to experimental inflammation and exploratory analysis of the effect of baseline inflammation in healthy humans.. I: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. ISSN 0889-1591. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2019.10.020

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2020) Comparison of bacterial lipopolysaccharide-induced sickness behavior in rodents and humans: relevance for symptoms of anxiety and depression.. I: Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. ISSN 0149-7634. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.05.001

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2019) The effect of a transient immune activation on subjective health perception in two placebo controlled randomised experiments.. I: PLOS ONE. Online ISSN 1932-6203. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212313

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2019) Neuroimmune modulation of pain across the developmental spectrum.. I: Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. ISSN 2352-1546. DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2019.01.010

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2018) Sex differences in how inflammation affects behavior: What we can learn from experimental inflammatory models in humans.. I: Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology (FIN). ISSN 0091-3022. DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2018.06.005

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2018) Detection of Inflammation via Volatile Cues in Human Urine. I: Chemical Senses. ISSN 0379-864X. DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjy059

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2018) Evidence of fatigue, disordered sleep and peripheral inflammation, but not increased brain TSPO expression, in seasonal allergy: A [(11)C]PBR28 PET study. I: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. ISSN 0889-1591. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2017.10.013

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2018) A global measure of sickness behaviour: Development of the Sickness Questionnaire. I: Journal of Health Psychology. ISSN 1359-1053. DOI: 10.1177/1359105316659917

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2017) Lifetime Modulation of the Pain System via Neuroimmune and Neuroendocrine Interactions.. I: Frontiers in Immunology. Online ISSN 1664-3224. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.00276

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2017) Lipopolysaccharide Alters Motivated Behavior in a Monetary Reward Task: a Randomized Trial.. I: Neuropsychopharmacology. ISSN 0893-133X. DOI: 10.1038/npp.2016.191

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2017) Role of Inflammation in Human Fatigue: Relevance of Multidimensional Assessments and Potential Neuronal Mechanisms.. I: Frontiers in Immunology. Online ISSN 1664-3224. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.00021

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2016) Why sickness hurts: A central mechanism for pain induced by peripheral inflammation. I: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. ISSN 0889-1591. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2016.04.001

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2016) Health anxiety in a disease-avoidance framework: Investigation of anxiety, disgust and disease perception in response to sickness cues.. I: Journal of Abnormal Psychology. ISSN 0021-843X. DOI: 10.1037/abn0000195

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2016) Mood disturbance during experimental endotoxemia: Predictors of state anxiety as a psychological component of sickness behavior. I: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. ISSN 0889-1591. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2016.01.003

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2016) Intrinsic functional connectivity of insular cortex and symptoms of sickness during acute experimental inflammation. I: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. ISSN 0889-1591. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2015.12.018

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2015) Modality and sex differences in pain sensitivity during human endotoxemia. I: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. ISSN 0889-1591. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2014.11.014

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2015) Sick man walking: Perception of health status from body motion.. I: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. ISSN 0889-1591. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2015.03.007

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2014) The scent of disease: human body odor contains an early chemosensory cue of sickness. I: Psychological Science. ISSN 0956-7976. DOI: 10.1177/0956797613515681

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2012) Allergy influences the inflammatory status of the brain and enhances tau-phosphorylation. I: Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. ISSN 1582-1838. DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2012.01556.x

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2012) Serotonin-1A receptor polymorphism (rs6295) associated with thermal pain perception. I: PLOS ONE. Online ISSN 1932-6203. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043221

Formidling

Bianka Anna Karshikoff; Karin Wåhlén; Jenny Åström; Mats Lekander; Linda Holmström; Richard Wicksell (2023) Inflammatory biomarker signature in the blood related to psychological comorbidity in chronic pain. 18th International Congress of Immunology; 2023-11-27 - 2023-12-02.

Bianka Anna Karshikoff; Kathrine Martucci; Sean Mackey (2023) Links between neuroimaging markers and blood inflammatory markers in chronic pelvic pain. Neuroforum 2023; 2023-04-13.

Bianka Anna Karshikoff; Jenny Åström; Mike K. Kemani; Mats Lekander; Linda Holmström; Rikard K. Wicksell (2022) Relationship between pro-inflammatory cytokine levels and psychological inflexibility in chronic pain during behavioral treatment.. 14th GEBIN Conference 2022; 2022-03-31.

Bianka Anna Karshikoff; Mats Lekander; Julie Lasselin (2022) Editorial: Vulnerability and protective factors for inflammation-associated somatoform and mental disorders. I: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. ISSN 0889-1591. Volum 106. s.227-230. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2022.08.019

Freja Anckers; Catarina Lensmar; Bianka Anna Karshikoff; Sandra Tamm; Anna Andreasson; Mats Lekander (2022) ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION FOLLOWING POLLEN EXPOSURE IN SEVERE SEASONAL ALLERGY. PNIRS Annual Meeting 2022: June 15th-18th Zurich, Switzerland; 2022-06-15 - 2022-06-18.

Bianka Anna Karshikoff (2021) Podcast: Psykologisk Forskning.

Lena Rademacher; Julie Lasselin; Bianka Anna Karshikoff; Jennifer E. Hundt; Harald Engler; Tanja Lange (2021) Editorial: The Different Faces of Sickness. I: Frontiers in Psychiatry. Online ISSN 1664-0640. Volum 12. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.735337

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