Martin Johansson

Martin joined the Systems Neurology lab for his PhD project in 2018 and transitioned to a post-doctoral research position in 2023.

My research focuses on brain mechanisms that underlie symptom progression in Parkinson’s disease, which I investigate through the longitudinal analysis of (f)MRI and clinical data. I am particularly interested in understanding how pathological and compensatory alterations in the brain can shape the motor phenotype and progression of individual patients. Currently, I am testing the hypothesis that motor progression depends on the decline of cortical mechanisms that are recruited to compensate for pathological dysfunction in the basal ganglia.