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Senior psychiatrist, Psychiatry Northwest, Stockholm Region Health Authority and Townsville Mental Health Service, Ausstralia

Docent, Dept of Clinical Neuroscience, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡.

Education
MBBS (Bachelor of medicine and surgery) University of Western Australia 1987

FRANZCP (specialist qualification in psychiatry) Australia 1994

PhD ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ 2012 (Sex Steroids, Genetics and Bipolar disorder)

Docent Karolinska Instutet 2021.

Academic honours, awards and prizes
Research Stipend Schering Plough 2008

My current research focus is on examining pathways to agression in those with psychotic spectrum disorders. We examine 3 groups i) those sentenced to forensic psychiatric care with a diagnosis of psychotic spectrum disorder and prior history of aggression ii) those with psychotic disorders but no aggression and iii) helathy individuals.  The current study (SPRätt) combines in depth interviews regarding past adversities and symptoms with psychological and biological measures. We use emotion recognition and social cognition paradigms as well as working memory tasks simultaneously with brain fNIRS and tests of skin conductance and pulse to elicit differences in current functions. Additionally we are doing mass protein spectrometry analyses combined with assays of inflammatory markers. Future analyses will focus on oxidative stress and other relevant biological pathways integrating protein markers with genetics and epigenetics.