Lars Bäckman - Curriculum vitae#

Lars Bäckman holds a professorship at the Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences. Professor Lars Bäckman published several books and over 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. His primary research area is cognition in normal and pathological aging. The research activities range from large-scale epidemiological studies to experimental brain-imaging work. Major current themes include individual differences in cognitive aging, the transition from normal aging to dementia, the neural basis for cognitive plasticity across the life span, and the role of dopamine functions in cognitive aging.