Joana Braga Pereira
Principal Researcher | Docent
E-mail: joana.pereira@ki.se
Visiting address: Nobels väg 9, D3, 17165 Solna
Postal address: K8 Klinisk neurovetenskap, K8 Neuro Pereira, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- I am an Associate Professor (Docent in Neurosciences), Principal
Investigator and Group Leader at the Neuro Division of CNS. I have a PhD in
Biomedicine by the University of Barcelona and did my Postdoctoral training
at the NVS Department of KI.
-------- Grants --------------------------------------------------------------
/As Principal Investigator/
* Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF)
* Swedish Research Council
* Alzheimerfonden
* Hjärnfonden
* Centrum för innovativ medicin (CIMED)
* Stratneuro
* Stohnes
* Loo och Hans Ostermans stiftelse
* Gamla Tjänarinnor
* Lindhes Advokatbyra AB
* KI Stiftelser
* Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
* Senior Research Faculty Position at Karolinska Institute
-------- Conference organization ---------------------------------------------
I have been a chairman of the yearly conference "Emerging Topics in
Artificial Intelligence" since 2020, a highly interdisciplinary forum
combining artificial intelligence with photonics, microscopy, active matter,
biomedicine, and brain connectivity.
Dates: 20-24 August 2023
Location: San Diego, USA
https://spie.org/OPN/conferencedetails/emerging-topics-in-ai?SSO=1
• 2017. Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroimaging, Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm, Sweden.
• 2012. PhD in Biomedicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• 2008. Master in Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Research
- I am working with brain connectivity measures derived from structural MRI,
functional MRI and diffusion tensor imaging in patients with Alzheimer's
disease and Parkinson's disease. My current projects are focused on the
assessment of brain connectivity and network topology in different stages of
these disorders as well as their relationship with clinical measures. I also
work with analyses of spatial patterns derived from amyloid and tau positron
emission tomography as well as cerebrospinal fluid and plasma biomarkers and
cognitive tests.
-------- Research Group ------------------------------------------------------
I currently lead a team of 3 PhD students, 3 Postdocs and 1 Research
Assistant:
.... Anna Canal Garcia
PhD student working on integrating different neuroimaging modalities of
patients with Alzheimer's disease into a single multilayer connectome, which
can be used to assess the interaction between distinct pathological
processes.
Email: anna.canal.garcia@ki.se [1]
.... Mite Mijalkov
Postdoc developing new measures of dynamic brain connectivity for the
analysis of functional magnetic resonance images in patients with Parkinson's
disease.
Email: mite.mijalkov@ki.se [2]
.... Daniél Veréb
Postdoc working with functional gradients and imaging preprocessing.
Email: daniel.vereb@ki.se [3]
.... Blanca Zufiria Gerboles
PhD student working with different deep neural network architectures to
understand anatomical brain connectivity and its relationship with gray
matter atrophy and white matter lesions.
Email: blanca.zufiria.gerboles@ki.se [4]
.... Jiawei Sun
PhD student working on the implementation of deep neural networks to predict
non-linear changes in functional brain connectivity in healthy individuals
and patients with neurodegenerative diseases.
Email: jiawei.sun@ki.se [5]
.... Zhilei Xu
Postdoc working with the development of approaches to relate genetic
information to brain connectivity measures.
Email: zhilei.xu@ki.se [6]
.... Massimiliano Passaretti
Research Assistant assessing different disease progression pathways in
neurodegenerative diseases using clinical and neuroimaging data.
Email: massimiliano.passaretti@ki.se [7]
....
In addition, we have following researchers affiliated to our group
.... Emma Chadwick
Clinical researcher interested in neuropsychological markers of dementia.
Email: emma.chadwick@ki.se [8]
.... Jasmine Soto SellDahl
Clinical researcher interested in Alzheimer's disease.
Email: jasmine.soto.selldahl@ki.se [9]
.... Ida Karimpour
Clinical researcher interested in Alzheimer's disease.
Email: ida.karimpour@ki.se [10]
-------- Co-supervision ------------------------------------------------------
I am also the official co-supervisor of 4 PhD students from the University of
Gothenburg and KTH:
.. Fabian Sinzinger
/Main supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Rodrigo Moreno, KTH Royal Institute of
Technology./
.. Yu-Wei Chang
/Main supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Volpe, GU./
.. Emiliano Gomez-Ruiz
/Main supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Volpe, GU./
.. Hang Zhao
/Main supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Volpe, GU./
-------- Alumni --------------------------------------------------------------
I have supervised 4 PhD students that have already defended their thesis:
Meera Srikrishna (GU), Emilia Schwertner (KI), Konstantinos Poulakis (KI),
Gustav Mårtensson (KI).
[1] mailto:anna.canal.garcia@ki.se
[2] mailto:mite.mijalkov@ki.se
[3] mailto:vereb.daniel@szte.hu
[4] mailto:yu-wei.chang@physics.gu.se
[5] mailto:yu-wei.chang@physics.gu.se
[6] mailto:yu-wei.chang@physics.gu.se
[7] mailto:yu-wei.chang@physics.gu.se
[8] mailto:yu-wei.chang@physics.gu.se
[9] mailto:yu-wei.chang@physics.gu.se
[10] mailto:yu-wei.chang@physics.gu.se
Teaching
- My areas of teaching expertise are the field of imaging analyses of magnetic
resonance and positron emission tomography scans as well as the application
of imaging measures to the assessment of neurodegenerative disorders.
I have extensive experience in leading lectures, tutorials and software
demonstrations as well as in the supervision of student's projects at the
master and PhD level. I also have experience in course planning as well as an
examiner and moderator.
I am currently involved in the teaching of the following courses:
.. Translational Molecular Imaging in Neurodegenerative Disorders
/Organizers: Laetitia Lemoine, Elena Rodriguez-Vieitez/
.. Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Diseases
/Organizers: Michael Schöll, Ros Patterson/
.. Imaging in Neuroscience: With a focus on structural MRI methods
/Organizers: Eric Westman, Daniel Ferreira/
I am also organizing my own course together with Prof. Peter Fransson at KI:
*Application of Graph Theory to the study of Brain Connectivity*
Finally, together with Assoc. Prof. Rita Almeida, I organize a workship at
SUBIC, Stockholm University:
*BRAPH 2: A software for the analysis of brain connectivity using multilayer
networks and deep learning*
Articles
- Article: BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY. 2024;95(11):1048-1054
- Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 2024;44(18):e0538232024
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2024;14(1):9513
- Article: EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE. 2024;274(2):363-373
- Article: COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY. 2024;7(1):239
- Article: CEREBRAL CORTEX. 2024;34(2):bhad542
- Article: ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA. 2024;20(1):629-640
- Article: ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH AND THERAPY. 2023;15(1):220
- Article: BRAIN, BEHAVIOR, AND IMMUNITY. 2023;114:3-15
- Article: NATURE AGING. 2023;3(10):1201-1209
- Article: ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA. 2023;19(10):4629-4640
- Article: NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE. 2023;185:106237
- Article: NATURE MEDICINE. 2023;29(8):1971-1978
- Article: AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS AND FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION. 2023;24(7-8):1-6
- Article: NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE. 2023;183:106182
- Article: ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH AND THERAPY. 2023;15(1):112
- Journal article: MEDRXIV. 2023;:2023.02.25.23286442
- Article: ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH AND THERAPY. 2023;15(1):82
- Article: JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM. 2023;43(4):565-580
- Article: NEUROSCIENCE INSIGHTS. 2023;18:26331055231161625
- Article: NETWORK NEUROSCIENCE. 2023;7(1):351-376
- Article: NATURE AGING. 2022;2(12):1138-1144
- Article: NEUROLOGY. 2022;99(15):e1619-e1629
- Article: MACHINE LEARNING: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. 2022;3(3):035001
- Article: PARKINSONISM AND RELATED DISORDERS. 2022;102:19-29
- Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2022;13(1):4566
- Article: CEREBRAL CORTEX. 2022;32(16):3501-3515
- Article: NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING. 2022;116:80-91
- Article: JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. 2022;87(3):1307-1318
- Article: CEREBRAL CORTEX. 2022;32(3):593-607
- Article: FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE. 2022;14:851788
- Article: BRAIN. 2021;144(11):3505-3516
- Article: NEUROIMAGE. 2021;244:118606
- Article: BRAIN. 2021;144(9):2826-2836
- Article: BRAIN. 2021;144(9):2771-2783
- Article: NEUROLOGY. 2021;97(16):E1608-E1619
- Article: JOURNAL OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE. 2021;11(4):2057-2071
- Article: ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH AND THERAPY. 2021;13(1):138
- Article: NEUROIMAGE. 2021;236:118070
- Article: CEREBRAL CORTEX. 2021;31(8):3832-3845
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2021;11(1):12350
- Article: NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING. 2021;101:1-12
- Article: BRAIN. 2021;144(1):310-324
- Article: FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE. 2021;13:777475
- Article: FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE. 2021;15:785244
- Article: FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE. 2021;13:694254
- Article: ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA: DIAGNOSIS, ASSESSMENT AND DISEASE MONITORING. 2021;13(1):e12141
- Article: NEUROIMAGE: CLINICAL. 2021;31:102708
- Article: JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. 2020;77(3):1143-1155
- Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING. 2020;47(9):2155-2164
- Article: AGING. 2020;12(13):12622-12647
- Article: NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE. 2020;139:104831
- Article: NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING. 2020;88:61-70
- Article: PLOS ONE. 2020;15(2):e0228334
- Article: NEUROIMAGE: CLINICAL. 2020;27:102310
- Article: ELIFE. 2019;8:e50830
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2019;9(1):15417
- Article: PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH - NEUROIMAGING. 2019;289:37-44
- Article: FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY. 2019;10:524
- Article: NPJ PARKINSON'S DISEASE. 2019;5:7
- Article: CEREBRAL CORTEX. 2018;28(10):3638-3649
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2018;8(1):11592
- Article: NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING. 2018;65:98-108
- Article: NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING. 2018;64:15-24
- Article: BRAIN. 2018;141(2):582-595
- Article: CEREBRAL CORTEX. 2018;28(1):340-349
- Article: NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING. 2017;58:14-29
- Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY. 2017;88(4):325-331
- Article: PLOS ONE. 2017;12(8):e0178798
- Article: ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA. 2016;12(11):1149-1158
- Article: CEREBRAL CORTEX. 2016;26(8):3476-3493
- Article: JOURNAL OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE. 2015;5(4):783-792
- Article: HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING. 2015;36(8):2980-2995
- Article: MOVEMENT DISORDERS. 2014;29(14):1802-1808
- Article: NEUROLOGY. 2014;82(22):2017-2025
- Article: HIPPOCAMPUS. 2014;24(4):403-414
- Article: JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. 2014;275(3):317-330
- Article: FRONTIERS IN SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE. 2014;8:45
- Article: HIPPOCAMPUS. 2013;23(8):720-728
- Article: PARKINSONISM AND RELATED DISORDERS. 2013;19(8):717-724
- Article: BRAIN STIMULATION. 2013;6(1):16-24
- Article: HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING. 2012;33(11):2521-2534
- Article: PARKINSONISM AND RELATED DISORDERS. 2012;18(8):941-947
- Article: MOVEMENT DISORDERS. 2009;24(8):1193-1199
- Article: NEUROREPORT. 2009;20(8):741-744
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All other publications
- Review: NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE. 2023;24(10):620-639
- Review: TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES. 2023;27(4):353-366
- Other: BRAIN COMMUNICATIONS. 2020;2(2):fcaa129
- Corrigendum: ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH AND THERAPY. 2020;12(1):71
- Review: ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH AND THERAPY. 2020;12(1):56
- Review: ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH AND THERAPY. 2020;12(1):49
- Review: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING. 2017;61(4):372-385
Employments
- Principal Researcher, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-
Degrees and Education
- Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2021