Aging Research Center (ARC) E-mail: helena.westerberg@ki.se |
Helena Westerberg earned a Master's degree in psychology from the University of Stockholm in 2002, and a Ph.D. in medicine from Karolinska Institutet in 2004.
Helena has a special interest in the assessment and treatment of working memory. Since 1999 she has been working in her role as a neuropsychologist at Astrid Lindgrens Childrens Hospital, at the Karolinska Hospital, with the clinical assessment of children and adults who have working memory deficits. She has also conducted various research studies, starting as a student in Neuropediatrics supervised by Prof. Hans Forssberg and Prof. Torkel Klingberg. Since 2004 Helena has worked as a post-doc in Professor Lars Bäckman’s group at the Aging Research Center, where she runs experimental studies on plasticity of working memory in aging and dementia. .
Selected publications
Klingberg, T., Forssberg, H., & Westerberg, H. (2002). Increased brain activity in frontal and parietal cortex underlies the development of visuospatial working memory capacity during childhood. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, (14)1 1-10.
Klingberg, T., Forssberg, H., & Westerberg, H. (2002). Training of working memory in children with ADHD. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, (24) 6 781-791.
Nagy, Z., Westerberg, H., Skare, S., Andersson, J. L., Lilja, A., Flodmark, O., Fernell, E., Holmberg, K., Böhm, B., Forssberg, H., Lagercrantz, H., & Klingberg, T. (2003). Preterm Children Have Disturbances of White Matter at 11 Years of Age as Shown by Diffusion Tensor Imaging. Pediatric Research (54) 5, 672-679.
Olesen, P., Nagy, Z., Westerberg, H., & Klingberg, T. (2003). Combined analysis of DTI and fMRI data reveals a joint maturation of white and grey matter in a fronto-parietal network. Cognitive Brain Research, 18 (1): 48-57.
Westerberg, H., Hirvikoski, T., Forssberg, H., & Klingberg, T. (2004). Visuospatial working memory span: a sensitive measure of cognitive deficits in children with ADHD. Child Neuropsychology, 10 (3): 155-161.
Nagy, Z., Westerberg, H., & Klingberg, T. (2004). Maturation of White Matter is Associated with the Development of Cognitive Functions During Childhood. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 (7):1227-1233.
Olesen, P., Westerberg, H., & Klingberg, T (2004). The Effect of Practice on Working Memory Capacity and Prefrontal Cortical Activity. Nature Neuroscience, 7 (1) 75-79.
Klingberg, T., Fernell, E., Olesen, P., Johnson, M., Gustafsson, P., Dahlström, K., Gillberg, C. G., Forssberg, H., & Westerberg, H. (2005). Computerized Training of Working Memory in Children with ADHD: a Controlled, Randomized, Double-blind, Trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 44 (2), 177-186.
Westerberg, H., Jacobaeus, T., Hirvikoski, P., Clevberger, M-L., Ostensson, A., Bartfai, T., & Klingberg, T. (2007) Computerized Working Memory Training - A Method of Cognitive Rehabilitation after Stroke. Brain Injury, January 2007; 21(1): 21-29.
Westerberg H., & Klingberg, T., (2007). Changes in cortical activity after training of working memory - a single-subject analysis. Physiology and Behavior 92, Pages 186-192.