Ivanka Savic Berglund - Selected Publications#

Savic I, Persson A, Roland P, Pauli S, Sedvall G, Widén L. In-vivo demonstration of reduced benzodiazepine receptor binding in human epileptic foci. Lancet. 1988 Oct 15;2(8616):863-6.

Savic I, Widén L, Stone-Elander S. Feasibility of reversing benzodiazepine tolerance with flumazenil. Lancet (London, England). 1991; 337(8734):133-7.

Savic I, Berglund H, Gulyas B, Roland P. Smelling of odorous sex hormone-like compounds causes sex-differentiated hypothalamic activations in humans. Neuron 2001; 31(4):661-8.

Savic I. Imaging of brain activation by odorants in humans. Current opinion in neurobiology. 2002; 12(4):455-61.

Savic I, Berglund H, Lindström P. Brain response to putative pheromones in homosexual men. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2005; 102(20):7356-61.

Berglund H, Lindström P, Savic I. Brain response to putative pheromones in lesbian women. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2006; 103(21):8269-74.

Savic I, Lindström P. PET and MRI show differences in cerebral asymmetry and functional connectivity between homo- and heterosexual subjects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008; 105(27):9403-8.

Jovanovic H, Perski A, Berglund H, Savic I. Chronic stress is linked to 5-HT(1A) receptor changes and functional disintegration of the limbic networks. NeuroImage. 2011; 55(3):1178-88.

Savic I. Structural changes of the brain in relation to occupational stress. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 2015; 25(6):1554-64.

Manzouri A, Kosidou K, Savic I. Anatomical and Functional Findings in Female-to-Male Transsexuals: Testing a New Hypothesis. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 2017; 27(2):998-1010.Manzouri A, Savic I. Cerebral sex dimorphism and sexual orientation. Human brain mapping. 2018; 39(3):1175-1186.

Savic I, Frisen L, Manzouri A, Nordenstrom A, Lindén Hirschberg A. Role of testosterone and Y chromosome genes for the masculinization of the human brain. Human brain mapping. 2017; 38(4):1801-1814

Manzouri A, Savic I. Possible Neurobiological Underpinnings of Homosexuality and Gender Dysphoria. Cereb Cortex. 2019 May 1;29(5):2084-2101. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhy090. PubMed PMID: 30084980; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6677918.

Majid DSA, Burke SM, Manzouri A, Moody TD, Dhejne C, Feusner JD, Savic I. Neural Systems for Own-body Processing Align with Gender Identity Rather Than Birth-assigned Sex. Cereb Cortex. 2020 May 14;30(5):2897-2909. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhz282. PubMed PMID: 31813993; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7197078.

Savic I. MRS Shows Regionally Increased Glutamate Levels among Patients with Exhaustion Syndrome Due to Occupational Stress. Cereb Cortex. 2020 May 18;30(6):3759-3770. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhz340. PubMed PMID

Moody TD, Feusner JD, Reggente N, Vanhoecke J, Holmberg M, Manzouri A, Sorouri Khorashad B, Savic I. Predicting outcomes of cross-sex hormone therapy in transgender individuals with gender incongruence based on pre-therapy resting-state brain connectivity. Neuroimage Clin. 2021;29:102517. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102517. Epub 2020 Dec 2. PubMed PMID: 33340976; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7750413.

BOOKS:

Savic I. Sex differences in the human brain, their underpinnings and implications. Preface. Progress in brain research. 2010; 186:vii-ix.

Lanzenberger R, Kranz GS, Savic I. Preface. Handb Clin Neurol. 2020;175:ix. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-64123-6.09989-6. PubMed PMID: 33008546.