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Jonas Persson

Jonas Persson

Affiliated to Research
Telephone: +46852485832
Visiting address: Tomtebodavägen 18 A, 17177 Solna
Postal address: H1 Neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle, H1 ARC Psykologi Kalpouzos, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • Jonas Persson received his PhD from UmeÃ¥ University in 2002. After a
    one-year post doc, also at Umeå University, he spent three years as an
    international research fellow at the Department of Psychology, University of
    Michigan. From 2008 he has been heading an independent research group on the
    neural basis for cognition and aging at the Department of Psychology,
    Stockholm University, which has been funded by the Swedish Science Council.
    During that period he also became an associate professor at the Department of
    Psychology, Stockholm University.
    Jonas Persson is currently a senior researcher at the Aging Research Center
    (ARC) and Deputy Head of Division. His research primarily deals with the
    interaction between brain structure-function and higher cognitive functions
    in aging, with a particular focus on memory (episodic/working memory) and
    executive control functions. These questions are addressed by means of
    structural (brain anatomy) and functional (brain function) MRI and measures
    of cognitive performance.

Research

  • • Functional neuroimaging of higher cognitive functions, such as cognitive
    control, working memory, and episodic memory.
    • Differences in neural responses between young and older adults, and its
    implications for cognitive decline in old age.
    • Age-related changes in the structure of the brain, including white-matter
    changes (as assessed by diffusion-tensor imaging), and volumetric changes.
    • Structure – function correlates related to increased genetic risk for
    developing Alzheimer’s disease.
    Recent publications:
    1. Becker, N., Kalpouzos, G., Persson, J., Laukka, EJ., and Brehmer, Y. (in
    press) Differential effects of encoding instructions on brain activity
    patterns of item and associative memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
    2. Szymkowicz, SM., Persson, J., Lin, T., Fischer, H., and Ebner, N. (in
    press) Hippocampal brain volume is associated with faster facial emotion
    identification in older adults: preliminary results. Frontiers in Aging
    Neuroscience.
    3. Peira, N., Ziaei, M., and Persson, J. (2016). Age differences in brain
    systems supporting transient and sustained processes involved in prospective
    memory and working memory. NeuroImage. 125: 745-755.
    4. Mattsson, P., Forsberg, A., Persson, J., Nyberg, L., Nilsson, LG.,
    Halldin, C., and Farde, L. (2015). β-amyloid binding in elderly subjects
    with declining or stable episodic memory function measured with PET and
    [11C]AZD2184. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
    42(10): 1507-1511.
    5. Papenberg, G., Salami, R., Persson, J., Lindenberger, U., and Bäckman,
    L. (2015). Genetics and Functional Imaging: Effects of APOE, BDNF, COMT, and
    KIBRA in Aging. Neuropsychology Review. 25 (1): 47-62.
    6. Persson, J., Rieckmann, A., Kalpouzos, G., Fischer, H., and Bäckman, L.
    (2015). Influences of a DRD2 polymorphism on updating of long-term memory
    representations and caudate BOLD activity: Magnification in aging. Human
    Brain Mapping. 36 (4): 1325-1334.
    7. Pudas S, Persson, J, Nilsson LG, Nyberg L. (2014). Midlife memory ability
    accounts for brain activity differences in healthy aging. Neurobiology of
    Aging. (35) 11: 2495-503.
    8. Persson, J., Pudas, S., Nilsson, LG., & Nyberg, L. (2014). Longitudinal
    assessment of default-mode function in aging. Neurobiology of Aging. 35
    (9):2107-2117.
    9. Kauppi K, Nilsson LG, Persson J, Nyberg L. (2014) Additive genetic
    effect of APOE and BDNF on hippocampus activity. Neuroimage. (89):306-313.
    10. Nyberg L, Andersson M, Kauppi K, Lundquist A, Persson J, Pudas S,
    Nilsson LG. (2014) Age-related and Genetic Modulation of Frontal Cortex
    Efficiency. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. (4):746-54
    11. Ziaei, M., Peira, N., Persson., J. (2014). Brain systems underlying
    attentional control and emotional distraction during working memory encoding.
    Neuroimage. (87): 276-286.
    12. Martina Hedenius, Jonas Persson, Per A. Alm, Michael T. Ullman, James
    H. Howard Jr., Darlene V. Howard, Margareta Jennische (2013). Impaired
    Implicit Sequence Learning in Children with Developmental Dyslexia. Research
    in Developmental Disabilities, 34, 3924–3935.
    13. Hedenius, M., Ullman, M. T., Alm, P., Jennische, M., and Persson, J.
    (2013). Enhanced declarative memory in children with dyslexia. 8 (5): e63998.
    PLoS ONE.
    14. Pudas, S., Persson, J., Josefsson, M., de Luna, X., Nilsson, LG.,
    Nyberg, L. (2013). Brain characteristics of individuals resisting age-related
    cognitive decline over two decades. Journal of Neuroscience. 33 (20):
    8668-8677.
    15. Persson, J., Larsson, A., & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2013). Imaging fatigue
    of interference control reveals the neural basis of executive resource
    depletion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25 (3): 338-51.
    16. Arshamian, A., Iannilli, E., Gerber, JC., Willander, J., Persson, J.,
    Seo, H-S., Hummel, T. & Larsson, M. (2013) The functional neuroanatomy of
    odor evoked autobiographical memories cued by odors and words.
    Neuropsychologia, 51 (1): 123-131.
    17. Marklund, P., & Persson, J. (2012). Context-dependent switching between
    proactive and reactive working memory control mechanisms in the right
    inferior frontal gyrus. Neuroimage. 63, 1552-1560.
    18. Persson, J., Pudas, S., Lind, J., Kauppi, K., Nilsson, LG., & Nyberg, L.
    (2012). Longitudinal structure – function correlates in elderly reveal MTL
    dysfunction with cognitive decline. Cerebral Cortex, 22 (10): 2297-2304.
    19. Kalpouzos, G., Persson, J., Nyberg, L. (2012). Local brain atrophy
    accounts for functional activity differences in normal aging. Neurobiology of
    Aging. 33 (3) 623.e1-623.e13.
    20. Hedenius, M., Persson, J., Tremblay, A., Adi-Japha, E., Veríssimo, J.,
    Dye, C.D., Alm, P., Jennische, M., Tomblin, B.J, Ullman, M.T. (2011). Grammar
    predicts procedural learning and consolidation deficits in children with
    Specific Language Impairment. Research in Developmental Disilibities. 32 (6):
    2362-2375.
    21. Persson, J., Kalpouzos G., Nilsson, L-G, Ryberg M., Nyberg, L. (2011).
    Preserved hippocampus activation in normal aging as revealed by fMRI.
    Hippocampus. 21 (7): 753-766.

Articles

  • Article: JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE. 2024;36(5):828-835
    Samrani G; Persson J
  • Article: JOURNAL OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY. 2024;18(1):66-80
    Norberg J; McMains S; Persson J; Mitchell JP
  • Article: INNOVATION IN AGING. 2023;7(9):igad117
    Solares C; Zhang L; Chang Z; Andershed H; Persson J; Larsson H
  • Article: NEUROIMAGE. 2023;278:120270
    Li X; Salami A; Persson J
  • Article: CEREBRAL CORTEX. 2023;33(6):3080-3097
    Noroozian M; Kormi-Nouri R; Nyberg L; Persson J
  • Article: JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES. 2023;78(1):1-9
    Cedres N; Aejmelaeus-Lindstrom A; Ekstrom I; Nordin S; Li X; Persson J; Olofsson JK
  • Article: NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA. 2022;176:108353
    Menelaou G; Persson J; Olofsson JK
  • Article: CELLS. 2022;11(18):2922
    Rode J; Edebol Carlman HMT; König J; Hutchinson AN; Thunberg P; Persson J; Brummer RJ
  • Article: HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING. 2022;43(11):3559-3576
    Hedenius M; Persson J
  • Article: NEUROIMAGE. 2022;253:119098
    Samrani G; Persson J
  • Article: NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING. 2022;114:49-60
    Andersson P; Li X; Persson J
  • Article: AGING NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION. 2022;29(3):577-598
    Ziaei M; Oestreich L; Persson J; Reutens DC; Ebner NC
  • Article: NUTRIENTS. 2022;14(7):1329
    Edebol Carlman HMT; Rode J; König J; Repsilber D; Hutchinson AN; Thunberg P; Persson J; Kiselev A; Pruessner JC; Brummer RJ
  • Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2022;12(1):4480
    Arnison T; Schrooten MGS; Bauducco S; Jansson-Frojmark M; Persson J
  • Article: ENEURO. 2022;9(2):ENEURO.0413-ENEU21.2022
    Li X; Salami A; Avelar-Pereira B; Backman L; Persson J
  • Article: PAIN. 2022;163(2):287-298
    Arnison T; Schrooten MGS; Hesser H; Jansson-Frojmark M; Persson J
  • Article: FRONTIERS IN NUTRITION. 2022;9:827182
    Rode J; Edebol Carlman HMT; König J; Repsilber D; Hutchinson AN; Thunberg P; Andersson P; Persson J; Kiselev A; Lathrop Stern L; Salomon B; Mohammed AA; Labus JS; Brummer RJ
  • Article: ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA: TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS. 2022;8(1):e12254
    Wang Y; Han X; Zhang X; Zhang Z; Cong L; Tang S; Hou T; Liu C; Han X; Zhang Q; Feng J; Yin L; Song L; Dong Y; Liu R; Li Y; Ngandu T; Kivipelto M; Snyder H; Carrillo M; Persson J; Fratiglioni L; Launer LJ; Jia J; Du Y; Qiu C
  • Article: NEUROIMAGE. 2021;230:117792
    Salami A; Papenberg G; Sitnikov R; Laukka EJ; Persson J; Kalpouzos G
  • Article: AGING NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION. 2021;28(1):108-127
    Samrani G; Persson J
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All other publications

  • Review: NEUROPSYCHOLOGY REVIEW. 2015;25(1):47-62
    Papenberg G; Salami A; Persson J; Lindenberger U; Backman L
  • Review: NEUROSCIENCE FOR ADDICTION MEDICINE: FROM PREVENTION TO REHABILITATION - CONSTRUCTS AND DRUGS. 2006;157:45-56
    Persson J; Nyberg L
  • Published conference paper: NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS. 2002;26(7):835-839
    Nyberg L; Persson J; Nilsson L-G

Employments

  • Affiliated to Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2025-2025
  • Principal Researcher, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, 2022-2024

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Stockholms Universitet

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