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Astrid Juhl Terkelsen

Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus Universitet Faculty of Health, Grenå Gymnasium

Research areas: Medicine · Physiology · Pain Mechanisms and Treatments · Pain Management and Treatment · Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

ORCID iD 0000-0001-6708-1958
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Clinical Professor, Astrid Juhl Terkelsen, MD, PhD, DrMSc is board qualified specialist in Neurology at the Dept. of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, attached to the neuromuscular clinic and autonomic laboratory and researcher at Danish Pain Research Center, Aarhus University in a 50% clinical position.

January 2015, she established the clinical autonomic nervous system laboratory at the Dept. of Neurology and has an identical research autonomic laboratory. She is the main person in Denmark to diagnose, evaluate and treat patients with autonomic disorders. The patients referred for autonomic evaluation comprises hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis, alfa-synucleinopathies (pure autonomic failure, multiple systemic atrophy, Parkinson’s disease), sarcoidosis, paraneoplastic/autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathies and all types of autonomic neuropathies with sensory-motor neuropathy. This gives the unique possibility to combine clinically relevant research with clinical work and responsibilities.

Her primary research field as well as Ph.D. and doctoral thesis is about sensory and autonomic disturbances in neurological disorders including small and large fibre neuropathy and complex regional pain syndrome. Her main research interest is neurophysiological measures with special focus on activation and monitoring of the autonomic nervous system. She has developed a series of tests to monitor and modulate sympathetic and parasympathetic cardiovascular functions, sweat, temperature and skin perfusion using cutaneous microdialysis measurement of catecholamines, heart rate variability and tilt table testing. She has several scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals. She has delivered national and international lectures on autonomic disturbances in acute pain, complex regional pain syndrome, small fiber neuropathy and neurogenic autonomic dysfunction.

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Education

  • Aarhus Universitet Faculty of Health DrMedSc
    2016 - Present
  • Aarhus Universitet Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    2006 - Present
  • Aarhus Universitet Doctor of Medicine (MD)
    1992 - Present
  • Grenå Gymnasium General Upper Secondary School Leaving Certificate. Advanced Level, Mathematics, physics, and Chemistry on highest level
    1988 - 1991

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