Editorial Board Member - JNND
Lars Larsson
ProfessorDepartment of Clinical Neurophysiology
Karolinska Institutet
Sweden
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Lars Larsson is Professor of Department of Physiology and Pharmacology and Department of Clinical Neurophysiology at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. He received MD and PhD degrees and a specialist degree in clinical neurophysiology from Karolinska University Hopsital, Sweden. He did his post-doctoral training at the Pennsylvania State University, Padova University and University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
He has also held the position as the Marie Underhill Noll Professor at the Pennsylvania State University, Professor and Chair at Clinical Neurophysiology, Uppsala University Hospital. He is a primary and secondary mentor for the graduate and postdoctoral students. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr. Lars Larsson's research work has focused on the mechanisms underlying the impaired muscle function associated with aging and primary and secondary myopathies affecting sarcomeric proteins. He identified the first ICU patient with critical illness myopathy in Sweden 20 years ago and has since then studied the mechanisms underlying this acquired myopathy in clinical and experimental studies, developed sensitive diagnostic methods and introduced specific intervention strategies.
Other Editorial Board Members - JNND
Yan Zhou
Department of Pharmacology
Guangxi Medical University
China
Karen Kathleen Szumlinski
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of California
USA
GIHAN INDRAGITH TENNEKOON
Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania
United States
DEBORAH F GELINAS
Department of Neuro-ophthalmology
Michigan State University
United States
Shengwen Calvin Li
Center for Neuroscience and Stem Cell Research
University of California-Irvine School of Medicine
United States
Walter Royal
Department of Neurology
University of Maryland
United States
RAJNISH S. DAVE
Department of Neuroscience
Temple University
United States
James Tao
Department of Neurology
The University of Chicago
United States
Tapas K Makar
Department of Neurology
University of Maryland
United States
Avner Meoded
NIH/NINDS
United States