Department of Neuroscience

Torkel Klingberg is a professor of neurology at the Karolinska Institute and is interested in how our various circumstances – our genes, socioeconomic circumstances and length of education – can affect how our cognitive abilities develop.

Hugo Zeberg is a researcher at Karolinska Institutet, at the Department of Neuroscience and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany. His research focuses on different gene variants, inherited from the Neanderthal, and how they affect fertility and the risk of being infected by various diseases. Listen to episode #67 of Medicinvetarna to find out more (in Swedish).

He also answers the question whether humans have developed genetically at all since the Stone Age in episode #76.

Sherlock Holmes was an idol when she was a child and her mother suggested the research profession early on. But it was not a straight path to science for Marie Carlén. Today she leads advanced studies on the part of the brain that shapes us as individuals.