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Darko Sarovic
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Department of RadiologyAbout Darko Sarovic
About Darko Sarovic
Darko (MD and BA in psychology) is a PhD candidate in psychiatry at the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre at the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, master student in psychology, resident in radiology at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and research fellow in radiology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, USA).
Research
His main research interest is autism and he has, among other things, suggested a theoretical framework for how the condition develops and its biological mechanisms. In his work he uses magnetoencephalography and magnetic resonance imaging for classification and the identification of biomarkers. Besides this, he has also performed a systematic review on gender dysphoria in adolescence. In his work in the USA he will investigate the social interaction between children with autism and their parents with simultaneous neurophysiologial scanning (so called hyperscanning with electro- and magnetoencephalography).
In his research he has received funding by:
- Göteborgs Läkaresällskap
- Fredrik och Ingrid Thurings stiftelse
- Professor Bror Gadelius Minnesfond
- Röntgenkliniken, Sahlgrenska Sjukhuset
- Stiftelsen för vetenskapligt arbete inom barnneuropsykiatri
- Svenska Läkaresällskapet
- Adlerbertska Stipendiestiftelsen
- Svensk Förening för Medicinsk Radiologi
- International Society for Autism Research
- Stiftelsen Systrarna Greta Johansson och Brita Anderssons Minnesfond
Education and pedagogical experience
He is a clinical supervisor for clinical interns and residents as well as for medical students during their clinical rotations in radiology. He is also a lecturer for medical students in internal medicine and surgery, and has been responsible for some of their clinical rotations at the Mölndal and Östra hospitals. He supervises bachelor theses for civil engineering students at the Chalmers University of Technology.
Clinical work
He is a clinical resident in radiology at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital and has previously worked as a junior physician in child- and adolescent psychiatry at the Södra Älvsborg Hospital.
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A PRISMA Systematic Review of Hyperscanning in
Autism
Darko Sarovic, Abbas Sohrabpour, Tommaso Tosato, Guillaume Dumas, Sheraz Khan
Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - 2026 -
Preliminary testing of a prespecified liability architecture for autism: theory-guided pathogenetic triad models outperform strength-matched
alternatives
Darko Sarovic
Frontiers in Psychiatry - 2026 -
Integrating Ultimate and Proximate Explanations of Neurodivergence: Evolutionary Trade-Offs, Compensation, and Clinical
Expression
Darko Sarovic
Evolutionary Applications - 2026 -
Tracking electrophysiological signatures of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review of multimodal
studies
Abbas Sohrabpour, Darko Sarovic, Henrik Zetterberg, Matti S. Hamalainen, Sylvain Baillet, Sheraz Khan
ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA - 2025 -
Normative values for liver ultrasound shear wave elastography, shear wave dispersion and attenuation imaging in a pediatric cohort during free
breathing.
Darko Sarovic, Ivan Cetinic, Charlotte de Lange, Nils Ekvall, Kerstin M Lagerstrand, Hanna Hebelka
Journal of Pediatrics, Perineonatology and Child health - 2024 -
Differential late-stage face processing in autism: a magnetoencephalographic study of fusiform gyrus
activation
Darko Sarovic, Justin F. Schneiderman, Sebastian Lundström, Bushra Riaz, Elena V Orekhova, Sheraz Khan, Christopher Gillberg
BMC PSYCHIATRY - 2024 -
Commentary: Autism: A model of neurodevelopmental diversity informed by
genomics
Darko Sarovic
Frontiers in Psychiatry - 2023 -
A PRISMA systematic review of adolescent gender dysphoria literature: 1)
Epidemiology
Lucy Thompson, Darko Sarovic, Philip Wilson, Angela Sämfjord, Christopher Gillberg
PLOS Global Public Health - 2022 -
A Multimodal Approach toward the Biological Categorization of Autism - Development of Theoretical Models, Classification Methods, and
Biomarkers
Darko Sarovic
2022 -
A PRISMA systematic review of adolescent gender dysphoria literature: 2) mental
health
Lucy Thompson, Darko Sarovic, Phil Wilson, Angela Sämfjord, Christopher Gillberg
PLOS Global Public Health - 2022 -
A Unifying Theory for Autism: The Pathogenetic Triad as a Theoretical
Framework.
Darko Sarovic
Frontiers in Psychiatry - 2021 -
Autism classified by magnetic resonance imaging: A pilot study of a potential diagnostic
tool
Darko Sarovic, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Justin F. Schneiderman, Sebastian Lundström, Christopher Gillberg
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - 2020 -
Neural gain control measured through cortical gamma oscillations is associated with sensory
sensitivity.
Elena V Orekhova, Tatiana A Stroganova, Justin F. Schneiderman, Sebastian Lundström, Bushra Riaz, Darko Sarovic, Olga V Sysoeva, Georg Brant, Christopher Gillberg, Nouchine Hadjikhani
Human brain mapping - 2019 -
The Neurobiology of
Autism
Christopher Gillberg, Clare Sarah Allely, Thomas Bourgeron, Mary Coleman, Elisabeth Fernell, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Darko Sarovic
Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, 3rd Ed. Fred R. Volkmar (red.) - 2019