Henrik Ehrsson
Professor
| Docent
E-mail: henrik.ehrsson@ki.se
Telephone: +46852487231
Visiting address: Solnavägen 9 - kvarter D4, 17165 Solna
Postal address: C4 Neurovetenskap, C4 Forskning Ehrsson, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- Born in Sweden 1972, I studied medicine and obtained my PhD from Karolinska Institutet. After a four-year postdoc at The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London, I became an assistant professor at Karolinska Institutet in 2008, and was appointed full professor in 2013.
I have published over 85 original peer-reviewed scientific works, including several articles in leading scientific journals such as Science, Neuron, PNAS, Current Biology, Nature Communications, PNAS, eLife and The Journal of Neuroscience. According to Web of Science (October 4th 2018), these works have been cited 6808 times and my H-index is 44.
Academic honours, awards and prizes
Distinguished Professor Grant from the Swedish Research Council (2018)
European Research Council Advanced grant (2017)
The Göran Gustafson Prize in medicine, awarded by the Royal Academy of Sweden (2017)
The Hans Wigzell Prize (2016)
The James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award in Understanding Human Cognition (2010)
European Research Council Starting Investigator Grant (2007)
Human Frontier Career Development Award (2007)
Research
- I am a cognitive neuroscientist interested in the problem of how we come to sense that we own our body. I considers the identification of multisensory mechanisms by which the central nervous system distinguishes between sensory signals from one's body and those from the environment as the key to solving this problem. By clarifying how the normal brain produces a sense of ownership of one's body, I believe that we can learn to project ownership onto artificial bodies and simulated virtual ones. This research could even enable two people to have the experience of swapping bodies with one another. The multisensory model of body ownership that continues to be developed by our research group is already being used in the field of neuro-prosthetics and by the virtual reality research community, thereby establishing opportunities for important clinical and industrial applications.
Articles
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Journal article: COGNITION. 2024;246:105697
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Article: BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH. 2023;444:114361
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Journal article: EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH. 2023;241(4):1021-1039
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Article: PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 2023;18(1):224-238
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. 2022;128(6):1435-1452
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Article: ELIFE. 2022;11:e77221
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2022;42(37):7131-7143
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Article: COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY. 2022;5(1):731
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Article: BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 2022;172:108355
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Article: ISCIENCE. 2022;25(4):104077
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Article: BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 2022;168:108248
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Article: ISCIENCE. 2022;25(1):103584
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Article: JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY. 2022;34(1):160-178
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2022;17(11):e0277080
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Article: FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE. 2022;16:834492
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Article: EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH. 2021;239(12):3471-3486
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Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2021;54(7):6463-6486
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Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2021;54(7):6422-6444
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Article: COGNITION. 2021;212:104722
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Article: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE. 2021;47(6):810-829
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Article: PAIN. 2021;162(5):1539-1544
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Article: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. 2021;12:629590
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2021;16(1):e0233243
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Article: ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE. 2020;7(12):201911
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Article: ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS. 2020;82(8):4058-4083
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Article: ISCIENCE. 2020;23(9):101429
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Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2020;10(1):14385
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Article: ISCIENCE. 2020;23(2):100843
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2020;40(4):894-906
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Article: ELIFE. 2019;8:e42888
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Article: CEREBRAL CORTEX. 2019;29(3):1328-1341
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Article: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE. 2019;45(2):209-223
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2019;14(10):e0223580
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2019;14(2):e0213265
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Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2018;8(1):16062
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Article: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE. 2018;44(7):1012-1021
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Article: PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 2018;29(6):926-935
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Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2018;9(1):1617
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Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2018;8(1):6284
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Article: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL. 2018;147(2):298-303
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Article: EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH. 2018;236(2):551-561
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2018;13(6):e0199426
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Article: ELIFE. 2017;6:e26022
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Article: COGNITION. 2017;165:1-9
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Article: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2017;114(31):8426-8431
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Article: CEREBRAL CORTEX. 2017;27(7):3768-3781
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Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2017;7:40123
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Article: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2017;114(1):166-171
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Article: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. 2017;8:344
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Article: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. 2017;68:93-100
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Article: CEREBRAL CORTEX. 2016;26(12):4450-4460
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Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2016;6:34530
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Article: COGNITION. 2016;155:44-56
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Article: CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION. 2016;41:139-149
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Article: ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS. 2016;78(2):707-720
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Article: FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE. 2016;10:559
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Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2015;5:18345
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Article: CURRENT BIOLOGY. 2015;25(11):1416-1425
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Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2015;5:9831
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Article: NEUROIMAGE. 2015;109:328-340
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Article: FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE. 2015;9:412
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Article: CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION. 2014;30:118-132
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2014;34(41):13684-13692
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Article: NEUROCASE. 2014;20(4):407-420
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Article: ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS. 2014;76(5):1414-1428
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Article: CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION. 2014;26:117-132
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Article: NEUROSCIENTIST. 2014;20(2):122-135
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Article: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2014;111(12):4421-4426
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2014;9(1):e85773
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Article: CLINICAL JOURNAL OF PAIN. 2013;29(10):e10-e18
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Article: CURRENT BIOLOGY. 2013;23(18):1764-1768
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Article: EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH. 2013;230(1):101-115
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2013;33(33):13350-13366
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Article: CURRENT BIOLOGY. 2013;23(14):1367-1372
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Article: JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE. 2013;25(7):1078-1099
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2012;32(42):14573-14582
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Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2012;36(1):2098-2106
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Article: CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION. 2012;21(2):1037-1042
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2012;7(12):e52400
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2012;7(4):e35912
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Article: FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE. 2012;6:40
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Article: CURRENT BIOLOGY. 2011;21(13):1118-1122
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2011;31(24):9023-9031
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2011;6(2):e17208
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. 2011;105(2):910-922
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Article: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. 2011;2:35
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Article: FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE. 2011;5:121
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2011;6(5):e20195
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Article: FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE. 2011;5:34
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2009;4(9):e6933
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Article: PERCEPTION. 2009;38(2):310-312
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Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY AND HAND SURGERY. 2009;43(5):260-266
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Article: CORTEX. 2009;45(1):62-71
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Article: BRAIN. 2008;131(Pt 12):3443-3452
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. 2008;99(2):695-703
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Article: PLOS ONE. 2008;3(12):e3832
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Article: FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE. 2008;2:6
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Article: SCIENCE. 2007;317(5841):1048
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Article: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2007;104(23):9828-9833
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. 2007;97(2):1342-1352
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2006;26(35):9015-9021
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2006;26(14):3783-3790
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Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2005;22(12):3255-3265
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Article: PLOS BIOLOGY. 2005;3(12):e412
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2005;25(45):10564-10573
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Article: CURRENT BIOLOGY. 2005;15(14):1286-1290
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. 2005;93(3):1498-1509
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Article: SCIENCE. 2004;305(5685):875-877
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Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2004;19(9):2591-2602
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. 2003;90(5):3304-3316
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. 2003;90(5):2978-2986
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. 2003;89(2):1126-1135
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Article: NEURON. 2002;36(5):979-988
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2002;22(12):5074-5080
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Article: NEUROREPORT. 2001;12(17):3805-3809
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Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2001;14(2):382-390
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. 2001;85(6):2613-2623
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Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2000;12(9):3385-3398
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. 2000;83(1):528-536
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Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 1999;19(14):6134-6144
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Article: GENOME RESEARCH. 1996;6(10):965-971
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Article: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY. 1995;198(Pt 12):2581-2591
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All other publications
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Letter: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2022;13(1):564
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Editorial comment: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2019;116(40):19771-19773
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Review: FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE. 2009;3(2):214-220
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Review: BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH. 2008;191(1):1-10
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Letter: SCIENCE. 2007;318(5854):1242
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Published paper: ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 2005;1060:368-376
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Review: JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. 2005;93(2):1020-1034
Employments
- Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2013-
Degrees and Education
- Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2009
- University Medical Degree, Karolinska Institutet, 2003
- Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2001