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Lars Nyberg

Lars Nyberg

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Neuroscience
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
121
Citations
61929
World Ranking
371
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Lars Nyberg is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their research primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience, with significant work in areas including psychiatry and mental health, radiology and imaging, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The scientist has published 183 works in neuroscience and 126 in medicine, covering a range of detailed subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Nyberg's main research topics include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Frequent coauthors in Nyberg's publications include:

  • Ulman Lindenberger
  • Kristine B. Walhovd
  • Anders M. Fjell
  • Micael Andersson
  • Andreas M. Brandmaier

The scientist's work appears regularly in a variety of publication venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Scientific Reports
  • eLife

Among the recent papers authored by Nyberg are:

  • "Biological and environmental predictors of heterogeneity in neurocognitive ageing," 2020, published in Ageing Research Reviews
  • "Educational attainment does not influence brain aging," 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Other relevant works featuring Nyberg's involvement include:

  • "Individual variations in 'brain age' relate to early-life factors more than to longitudinal brain change," 2021, eLife
  • "Establishment of reference values for plasma neurofilament light based on healthy individuals aged 5-90 years," 2022, Brain Communications
  • "Asymmetric thinning of the cerebral cortex across the adult lifespan is accelerated in Alzheimer's disease," 2021, Nature Communications

Nyberg has also contributed to book literature, including a publication with Frontiers Media titled "The importance of cognitive practice effects in aging neuroscience" in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Imaging Cognition II: An Empirical Review of 275 PET and fMRI Studies

    Roberto Cabeza;Lars Nyberg

  • Memory aging and brain maintenance

    Lars Nyberg;Martin Lövdén;Martin Lövdén;Martin Lövdén;Katrine Riklund;Ulman Lindenberger

  • "Stops walking when talking" as a predictor of falls in elderly people.

    Lillemor Lundin-Olsson;Lars Nyberg;Yngve Gustafson

  • Transfer of Learning After Updating Training Mediated by the Striatum

    Erika Dahlin;Anna Stigsdotter Neely;Anne Larsson;Lars Bäckman

  • Maintenance, reserve and compensation: the cognitive neuroscience of healthy ageing

    Roberto Cabeza;Marilyn Albert;Sylvie Belleville;Fergus I. M. Craik

  • Age-Related Differences in Neural Activity during Memory Encoding and Retrieval: A Positron Emission Tomography Study

    Roberto Cabeza;Cheryl L. Grady;Lars Nyberg;Anthony R. McIntosh

  • Stability, growth, and decline in adult life span development of declarative memory: cross-sectional and longitudinal data from a population-based study.

    Michael Rönnlund;Lars Nyberg;Lars Bäckman;Lars-Göran Nilsson

  • Task-independent and Task-specific Age Effects on Brain Activity during Working Memory, Visual Attention and Episodic Retrieval

    Roberto Cabeza;Sander M. Daselaar;Florin Dolcos;Steven E. Prince

  • The correlative triad among aging, dopamine, and cognition: current status and future prospects.

    Lars Bäckman;Lars Nyberg;Ulman Lindenberger;Shu-Chen Li

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function

    Gail Davies;Max Lam;Sarah E. Harris;Joey W. Trampush

  • PET studies of encoding and retrieval: The HERA model.

    Lars Nyberg;Roberto Cabeza;Endel Tulving

  • Intra-individual variability in behavior: links to brain structure, neurotransmission and neuronal activity.

    Stuart W.S. MacDonald;Lars Nyberg;Lars Bäckman

  • Imaging cognition: An empirical review of pet studies with normal subjects

    Roberto Cabeza;Lars Nyberg

  • The betula prospective cohort study: Memory, health, and aging

    Lars-GÖRan Nilsson;Lars BÄCkman;Karin Erngrund;Lars Nyberg

  • Neurocognitive Architecture of Working Memory

    Johan Eriksson;Edward K. Vogel;Anders B. Lansner;Fredrik Bergstrom

  • Prefrontal cortex and episodic memory retrieval mode.

    Martin Lepage;Omar Ghaffar;Lars Nyberg;Endel Tulving

  • Plasticity of executive functioning in young and older adults: immediate training gains, transfer, and long-term maintenance.

    Erika Dahlin;Lars Nyberg;Lars Bäckman;Anna Stigsdotter Neely

  • Similarities and differences in the neural correlates of episodic memory retrieval and working memory.

    Roberto Cabeza;Florin Dolcos;Florin Dolcos;Reiko Graham;Lars Nyberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars-Göran Nilsson
Lars-Göran Nilsson Stockholm University
Lars Bäckman
Lars Bäckman Karolinska Institute
Srdjan Djurovic
Srdjan Djurovic Oslo University Hospital
Thomas Espeseth
Thomas Espeseth University of Oslo
Ulman Lindenberger
Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
Kristine B. Walhovd
Kristine B. Walhovd Oslo University Hospital
Anders M. Fjell
Anders M. Fjell Oslo University Hospital
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Society

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