Margareta Hedner
Master in cognitive sciences, Umeå University
PhD Student in psychology, Stockholm University
Research
I: Neural correlates for age-related changes in olfactory processing
I study the effect of the gene brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) on age-related odor identification decline in a large-scale population-based sample (the Betula Project). Main collaborators: my supervisor professor Maria Larsson (Stockholm University), and co-supervisor professor Lars-Göran Nilsson (Stockholm University).
II: Neural correlates for age-related changes in episodic memory
I also study the effect of the gene brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) on age-related memory decline in a large-scale population-based sample (the Betula Project). Main collaborators: my supervisor professor Maria Larsson (Stockholm University), and co-supervisor professor Lars-Göran Nilsson (Stockholm University).
III: Students' awareness of the best strategy for learning foreign language glossary lists
Collaborators: Fredrik Jönsson, PhD (Stockholm University).
Publications
Hedner, M., Nilsson, L., Olofsson, J.K., Bergman, O., Eriksson, E., Nyberg, L., & Larsson, M. (2010). Age-related olfactory decline is associated with the BDNF val66met polymorphism: evidence from a population-based study. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2(24). doi:10.3389/fnagi.2010.00024
Hedner, M., Larsson, M., Arnold, N., Zucco, G.M., & Hummel, T. (2010) Cognitive factors in odor detection, odor discrimination, and odor identification tasks. Journal of Clinical and Exprimental Neuropsychology, 30, 1-6.
Olofsson, J.K., Nordin, S., Wiens, S., Hedner, M., Nilsson, L.-G., & Larsson, M. (2010). Odor identification impairment in carriers of ApoE-varepsilon4 is independent of clinical dementia. Neurobiology of Aging, 31(4), 567-77.
Larsson, M., Hedner, M., & Olofsson, J. (2009). Differential Age and Sex Effects in Semantic Recognition of Odors and Words. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 41(11), 1049-1053.
Miscellaneous
I am a member of Stockholm Brain Institute.
