Pardis Zarifkar
PhD
Department of Neurology at Rigshospitalet
Biography
Patients with acute brain injury exhibit various cognitive disorders, from mild confusion to coma. Whereas research traditionally focuses on the underlying etiologies such as traumatic brain injury or stroke, our research group specifically investigates the cerebral mechanisms that lead to acute impairment of consciousness and cognition, and what it takes to reverse these mechanisms.
Acute neurological injuries, including acute exacerbation of established neurological diseases, represent the largest share of neurological hospitalizations. We therefore aim to make a contribution to all areas of interest to acute and intensive care neurology.
Our main area of interest is coma and other conditions with impaired consciousness and cognitive disorders following acute traumatic and non-traumatic brain injury. The latter include brain injury related to cerebrovascular, infectious, metabolic and autoimmune brain disease, as well as anoxic brain injury after cardiac arrest.
