About me
Senior psychiatrist, Psychiatry Northwest, Stockholm Region Health Authority
Docent, Dept of Clinical Neuroscience.
Research description
My current reserach focus is on examining how, in those with psychotic spectrum disorders and sentenced to forensic care, anamnestic risk factors for aggression are mediated through psychological functions and biological vulnerabilities. The current study (SPRätt) combines emotion recognition and mentalizing paradigms, fNIRS with tests of cognitive function, arousal measures during performance stress, as well as genetics, epigenetics and protein expression.
Teaching portfolio
Have taught at undergraduate level course on Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses. At Post graduate level am coteaching course on Psychiatric diagnostics.
Education
MBBS (Bachelor of medicine and surgery) University of Western Australia 1987
FRANZCP (specialist qualification in psychiatry) Australia 1994
PhD Karolinska Institutet 2012 (Sex Steroids, Genetics and Bipolar disorder)
Docent Karolinska Instutet 2021.
Academic honours, awards and prizes
Research Stipend Schering Plough 2008