My research aims to understand how the brain produces the individual profiles of function that exist in all people. I am convinced that we need to describe such profiles through multiple dimensions, rather than through averages drawn from broad categories.
My scientific path began with synaptic pharmacology and epilepsy at the University of Otago in New Zealand and continued at Princeton University, where I used brain imaging to find altered connectivity between the social cerebral cortex and the cerebellum in autistic children. That finding has stayed with me - the cerebellum's links to perception, movement, and social cognition are at the centre of my current research.
Alongside research, I serve as the course coordinator and examiner for Term 5 (Health and Disease 3) in the medical school, and I supervise PhD candidates and master's students in medical and cognitive sciences.
Read more about our research at Igelström Lab
