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MD, PhD, Professor
Ivanka
Savic Berglund
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Professor of Neurology at the Karolinska Institute and Visiting Professor of Neurology at UCLA. Published early seminal studies on basic mechanisms in human epilepsy, olfactory and pheromone prosessing with ragard to sex and sexual orientation. More recently sttudies on how chronic occupational stress affects male and female brain. Another on going research line is the neurobiology of gender dysphoria, gender identity and gender orientation.
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Sweden, US
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Publications in high rated peer reviwed journals, international collaborations, worked with public relations (publications in NY Times Le Monde, Washington Post, CNN, The Economist, ) participated in several scientific programs, more recently in the ¨Wormholes with Morgan Freeman¨(on gender identity)
All these activities were related to gender and sex differences in the human brain, measured with neuropsychological tests and various brain imaging techniques (MRI, PET)