Anders Björklund

Impact of grafted serotonin and dopamine neurons on development of L-DOPA-induced dyskinesias in parkinsonian rats is determined by the extent of dopamine neuron degeneration (2009)

Carlsson, Thomas, Carta, Manolo, Muñoz, Ana, Mattsson, Bengt, Winkler, Christian, Kirik, Deniz, ...

Previous studies have shown that serotonin neurons play an important role in the induction and maintenance of l-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in animals with lesion of the nigrostriatal dopamine system....

Combined 5-HT1A and 5-HT1B receptor agonists for the treatment of L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia (2008)

Muñoz, Ana, Li, Qin, Gardoni, Fabrizio, Marcello, Elena, Qin, Chuan, Carlsson, Thomas, ...

Appearance of dyskinesia is a common problem of long-term l-DOPA treatment in Parkinson's disease patients and represents a major limitation for the pharmacological management of the motor symptoms...

Dopamine released from 5-HT terminals is the cause of L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in parkinsonian rats (2007)

Carta, Manolo, Carlsson, Thomas, Kirik, Deniz, Björklund, Anders

In patients with Parkinson's disease, the therapeutic efficacy of l-DOPA medication is gradually lost over time, and abnormal involuntary movements, dyskinesias, gradually emerge as a prominent...

American exceptionalism in a new light: a comparison of intergenerational earnings mobility in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and the United States (2005)

Jäntti, Markus, Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Raaum, Oddbjørn, Naylor, Robin, Österbacka, Eva, ...

We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyse differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and...

Factors affecting the clinical outcome after neural transplantation in Parkinson's disease (2005)

Piccini, Paola, Pavese, Nicola, Hagell, Peter, Reimer, Jan, Björklund, Anders, Oertel, Wolfgang H., ...

Intrastriatal grafts of embryonic mesencephalic tissue can survive in the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease, but the degree of symptomatic relief is highly variable and some cases develop...

Reversal of dyskinesias in an animal model of Parkinson's disease by continuous L-DOPA delivery using rAAV vectors (2005)

Carlsson, Thomas, Winkler, Christian, Burger, Corinna, Muzyczka, Nicholas, Mandel, Ronald J., Cenci, Angela, ...

Dyskinesias are a major complication of long-term l-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (l-DOPA) treatment in Parkinson's disease, and are believed to result from the intermittent and pulsatile supply of...

Differentiation of the RN33B cell line into forebrain projection neurons after transplantation into the neonatal rat brain. (2002)

Lundberg, Cecilia, Englund, Ulrica, Trono, Didier, Björklund, Anders, Wictorin, Klas

The rat neural cell line RN33B has a remarkable ability to undergo region-specific neuronal differentiation after transplantation into the CNS. To further study its neurogenic properties in vivo, we...

Brother correlations in earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden compared to the United States

Markus Jäntti, Eva Österbacka, Oddbjörn Raaum, Tor Eriksson, Anders Björklund

The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother...

Family structure and child outcomes in the USA and Sweden

Anders Björklund, Donna Ginther, Marianne Sundström

Family structure, Parental separation, Educational attainment, J1, J12, I21,

Does family policy affect fertility?

Anders Björklund

Fertility, Family policy, Comparative studies, J13, J18, D13,

Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden – A combination of equal opportunity and capitalistic dynasties

Björklund, Anders, Roine, Jesper, Waldenström, Daniel

This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational income and earnings mobility in the top of the distributions. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden we are able to obtain...

Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden – A Combination of Equal Opportunity and Capitalistic Dynasties

Björklund, Anders, Roine, Jesper, Waldenström, Daniel

This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational income and earnings mobility in the top of the distributions. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden we are able to obtain...

Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: A Combination of Equal Opportunity and Capitalistic Dynasties

Björklund, Anders, Roine, Jesper, Waldenström, Daniel

This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational income and earnings mobility in the top of the distributions. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden we are able to obtain...

Intergenerational mobility of socio-economic status in comparative perspective

Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti

This paper reviews three strands of literature on socio-economic intergenerational mobility. The first is a mostly recent and rapidly growing economics literature that measures mobility in labour...

The Evolution of Income Inequality During the Rise of the Swedish Welfare State1951 to 1973

Anders Björklund, Mårten Palme

We analyse the change in family gross income inequality between 1951 and 1973. We use two new samples of the Swedish population from 1951 and 1956 containing tax register data, and compare the...

Efficient production of mesencephalic dopamine neurons by Lmx1a expression in embryonic stem cells

Friling, Stina, Andersson, Elisabet, Thompson, Lachlan H., Jönsson, Marie E., Hebsgaard, Josephine B., Nanou, Evanthia, ...

Signaling factors involved in CNS development have been used to control the differentiation of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) into mesencephalic dopamine (mesDA) neurons, but tend to generate a limited...

Unionization and the Evolution of the Wage Distribution in Sweden: 1968 to 2000

Albrecht, James, Björklund, Anders, Vroman, Susan

We examine the evolution of the Swedish wage distribution over the periods 1968-1981 and 1981-2000. The first period was the heyday of the Swedish solidarity wage policy with strongly equalization...

IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak?

Björklund, Anders, Hederos Eriksson, Karin, Jäntti, Markus

For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities....

Family background and income during the rise of the welfare state: Brother correlations in income for Swedish men born 1932-1968

Björklund, Anders, Jäntti, Markus, Lindquist, Matthew J.

We investigate if the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for men born between 1932 and 1968. Our main finding is that the share of the variance in long-run income...