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2015 - Associative learning and timing in the cerebellum - Germund Hesslow - Lund University
Memories are based on learned associations. The photo of a boat evokes its name, perhaps the smell of the sea. The sight of sheet music in...
2015 – Torsten Söderberg’s Academy Professorship in Medicine 2016 – Göran K. Hansson – Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Chair shall promote internationally leading research in the field of medicine by enabling the holder to devote full-time time to the...
2015 - How do we experience the body as our own? Research on cerebral cortex mechanisms - Henrik Ehrsson - Karolinska Institutet
Bend your head forward and look down at your body. You see two arms, two legs, a stomach and a chest. ....
2015 - Does loss of chromosome Y in men cause cancer and Alzheimer's disease? - Jan Dumanski - Uppsala University, Sweden
Women and men have different sets of sex chromosomes; women have two Xs and men have one X and one Y chromosome....
2014 - Platform for the metagenome and its role in metabolic disease - Fredrik Bäckhed - University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy
Our intestinal tract contains 10 times more bacteria than we have cells in our body. These bacteria express 150 times...
2014 - Muscle stimulation for elderly and disabled people - Ann Christin Mona - Selsmark
For about 20 years, I have been working with a microcurrent that strengthens muscles through isometric training without the client...
2014 - Culture-free identification of antibiotic resistance - Fredrik Westerlund - Chalmers University of Technology
Bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics is one of the major threats to world health. The WHO reported in April 2014 that...
2014 - Towards new treatment strategies for obstetric asphyxia and stroke - Marcela Pekna - University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy
Brain ischemia, i.e. oxygen deprivation due to lack of blood circulation after stroke or childbirth (asphyxia), causes great suffering in patients...
2014 - HMGB1, inflammation and cognitive function after severe sepsis - Peter Sackey - Karolinska Institutet
Every year, 40,000 patients are treated in Swedish intensive care units (ICUs). More than 35% of all ICU patients suffer from blood poisoning (sepsis), with...
2014 - Autism in girls and women - brain function and symptoms - Christopher Gillberg - University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy
Autism and other early-onset developmental disorders (such as ADHD) (now often grouped together under the title ESSENCE for Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental...
2014 - Development of new cell therapies for stroke - Zaal Kokaia - Lund University
Every year, 30 000 people suffer a stroke in Sweden. Stroke is the most common cause of chronic disability among adults;...
2014 - Mesenchymal stem cells to stop type 1 diabetes development - Per-Ola Carlsson - Uppsala University, Sweden
Type 1 diabetes is the most common chronic disease in children for which there is no cure. At the onset of type 1 diabetes...
