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Silke Kern

Deputy Head of Department

Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology
Telephone
+46 31-786 68 50
+46 762-36 53 32
Mail
silke.kern@neuro.gu.se
Visiting address
Medicinaregatan 11
41390 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 430
40530 Göteborg

Professor/ Chief Physician

Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology
Telephone
+46 31-786 68 50
+46 762-36 53 32
Mail
silke.kern@neuro.gu.se
Visiting address
Wallinsgatan 6, Minnesmottagningen, SU/Mölndal
431 41 Mölndal
Postal address
Box 430
40530 Göteborg

About Silke Kern

Dr. Silke Kern is Professor, Senior Consultant Neurologist and Psychiatrist and Vice Head of the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg. She is leading all clinical research conducted at the Memory Clinic, Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

Research areas

Professor Kern's main research focus is fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease in clinical settings as well as in epidemiological research. Dr Kern is leading all clinical research at the Memory Clinic, Sahlgrenska University Hospital and is Principal Investigator for the H70 Clinical Studies, the Swedown-Väst Study and the European Prevention of Alzheimer's disease Trial Delivery Center at the Memory Clinic at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Dr. Silke Kerns research aim is to increase knowledge about dementia and cognitive disorders from early diagnosis to treatment.

Main research areas are:

  • Biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in cerebrospinal fluid
  • MRI brain imaging as biomarker for different neurodegenerative diseases
  • Riskfactors for development of different neurodegenerative diseases
  • Incidence and time-changes of dementia over the last decades

Research group

H70 Clinical Studies - clinical memory research

see The Gothenburg H70 Birth cohort study