Karl Sallin

Karl Sallin
MD
PhD Student
Karl Sallin is part of CRB's neuroethics research team. He is a paediatric resident at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital. He is on the hospital's Ethics committee and a member of the Swedish Society of Medicine's Ethics committee. Karl Sallin holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge where his main foci were on the philosophy of mind, language and mathematics. In his clinical work Karl Sallin has been involved with children suffering from Resignation Syndrome (RS). RS is a severe condition in asylum-seeking refugee adolescents most notably resulting in a seemingly unconscious state.
Karl Sallin's PhD project is part of the European Flagship Human Brain Project.
E-mail: karl.sallin@crb.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 471 62 44
Recently in the media
- Apatiska barn blev friska när de vårdades ensamma, forskning.se, 26 October 2021
- Rön på tvärs med råd för apatiska barn, Aftonbladet, 21 October 2021
- Ny studie: Apatiska barn tillfrisknade när familjen avlägsnades, Bulletin, 21 October 2021
- Ny studie väcker frågetecken om råd till "apatiska barn", P4 Uppland, 21 October 2021
- Rön på tvärs med råd för apatiska barn,Göteborgsposten,21 October 2021
- Studie motsäger Socialstyrelsens tidigare råd kring uppgivenhetssyndrom, SVT Nyheter, 21 October 2021
- Ny forskning: Apatiska barn blev friska utan familjen, Uppsala Nya Tidning, 21 October 2021
- A Disorder of Mind and Brain. A mysterious condition once known as hysteria is challenging the divide between psychiatry and neurology, Diana Kwoon, Scientific American, November 2020
- HVB-hemmet Solsidan: Så behandlar vi uppgivna barn, SVT Nyheter, October 22, 2019
- Apatiska barnen diskuteras igen, SVT Nyheter, October 5, 2019
- Den enda rena sanningen kräver några lögner, Svenska Dagbladet, September 29, 2019
- Granskning lyfter ny debatt om apatiska barn, SVT Nyheter, September 26, 2019
- Apatiska barn talar ut, Svenska Dagbladet Ledarredaktionen, September 24, 2019
- Ohörda rop, Magasinet Filter, September 23, 2019
- The trauma of facing deportation, The New Yorker, April 3, 2017 issue
- Only in Sweden, BioEdge, March 18, 2016
- SLS vill förändra vårdens organisation och styrning, Framtidens Karriär, 20 January, 2015
- Sjukvården följer inte längre lagen, Svenska Dagbladet Brännpunkt, 26 May, 2014
Pervasive refusal syndrome

Karl Sallin is studying pervasive refusal syndrome as a disorder of consciousness.
The Human Brain Project

The Human Brain Project is one of the European Community flagship projects and involves over 100 groups. Kathinka Evers leads the philosophical research.
Neuroethics & Neurophilsophy

Any attempt at understanding how the mind and the brain work comes with a set of philosophical, ethical and social issues.
Publications
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Separation and not residency permit restores function in resignation syndrome: a retrospective cohort study
Part of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, p. 75-86, 2023.
DOI for Separation and not residency permit restores function in resignation syndrome: a retrospective cohort study Download full text (pdf) of Separation and not residency permit restores function in resignation syndrome: a retrospective cohort study
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Pervasive refusal syndrome revisited: a conative disorder
Part of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, p. 1-3, 2020.
DOI for Pervasive refusal syndrome revisited: a conative disorder
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Resignation syndrome: Catatonia? Culture-bound?
Part of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2016.
