معرفی
Predrag Petrovic is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Physician at the Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience. His career spans clinical practice and academic research, focusing on the interplay between cognitive processes, psychiatric conditions, and neurobiological mechanisms. As Docent and leader of the Cognitive Neuropsychiatry research group, he bridges clinical observations with cutting-edge neuroimaging and behavioral studies.
- Employment: Senior Lecturer/Senior Physician (2017-), Karolinska Institutet
- Academic Credentials: PhD in Clinical Neuroscience (2002), MD (1996), Docent title (2013)
Research Themes:
- Delusion-proneness and belief formation
- Sleep deprivation effects on cognition
- ADHD and executive function
- Neurodegenerative disease (Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia)
- Neural mechanisms of empathy and pain
- Psychoactive substances and cognition
Publication Trends reveal interdisciplinary work combining fMRI, psychopharmacology, and population studies. Recent 2025 work explores machine learning applications in dementia detection and soccer player cognition, while 2024 studies examine psychedelics, chronotypes, and vaccine hesitancy through cognitive neuroscience lenses.
Research Group: The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry group includes Christoph Abé (PhD), Kasim Acar (PhD Student), Orestis Floros (Clinical Assistant), and others, conducting studies on topics from soccer intelligence to resignation syndrome.
