PhD Danka Savić

senior research associate

  • CONTACT INFORMATION
  • danka.s@sbb.rs
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  • Institute for nuclear sciences "Vinča"

RESEARCH INTERESTS

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Individual differences; improving personality model; biological underpinning of human behavior; dispositions to (and biomarkers of) mental illnesses

KEYWORDS

KEYWORDS

Individual differences; improving personality model; biological underpinning of human behavior; dispositions to (and biomarkers of) mental illnesses

EDUCATION INFO

EDUCATION INFO

physical chemistry/ PhD in biophysics (thesis “A Model of Epithelial Morphogenesis – Dissipative Structures in Embryology”)

BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iYTjD1wAAAAJ&hl=sr

OTHER INFORMATION

OTHER INFORMATION

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Savic, D., Knezevic, G., Matic, G., & Damjanovic, S. (2018).PTSD and depressive symptoms are linked to DHEAS via personality. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 92, 29-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.03.017

  • Knežević, G., Savić, D., Kutlešić, V., & Opačić, G. (2017). Disintegration: A Reconceptualization of Psychosis Proneness as a Personality Trait Separate from the Big Five. Journal of research in personality http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2017.06.001 [pdf]

  • Savić, D., Knežević, G., Matić, G., Damjanović, S. & Špirić, Z. (2015). Posttraumatic and depressive symptoms in β-endorphin dynamics. Journal of Affective Disorders, 181, 61–66. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2015.03.063

  • Savic, D., Knezevic, G., Damjanovic, S., Antic, J., & Matic, G. (2014). GR gene BclI polymorphysm changes the path, but not the level, of dexamethasone-induced cortisol suppression. Journal of affective disorders168, 1-4.

  • Savic, D., Knezevic, G., Damjanovic, S., Spiric, Z., & Matic, G. (2012). Is there a biological difference between trauma-related depression and PTSD? DST says ‘NO’. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 37(9), 1516-1520. DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.02.005

  • Knežević, G., Opačić, G., Savić, D. & Priebe, S. (2005). Do personality traits predict post-traumatic stress? – a prospective study in civilians experiencing air attacks. Psychological Medicine, 35, 659-663. [pdf]

  • Savić, D., Knežević, G. & Opačić, G. (2001). Individual differences in Stress reaction: An Introduction to a Mathematical Model. Psychiatry Today, 32. (ISSN -0350-2538)

  • Savić, D., Knežević, G. & Opačić, G. (2000). A Mathematical Model of Stress Reaction: Individual differences in Threshold and Duration. Psychobiology 28, 581-592. [pdf]

BOOKS AND CHAPTERS

  • Savić, D. (2004). About a Mathematical Model of the Psychobiology of Stress Reaction in Torture in war: Consequences and rehabilitation of victims – Yugoslav experience. In Ž. Špirić, G. Knežević, V. Jović, Opačić G. (Eds.). Torture in war: consequences and rehabilitation of victims, Yugoslav experience (pp. 177-185). Centar za rehabilitaciju žrtava torture, International Aid Network: Beograd. (ISBN 86-83595-08-0)

RESEARCH REPORTS

    PhD THESES

      PROJECTS

      • 2011 - 2017: Definisanje klastera molekulskih biomarkera za poboljšanu dijagnostiku i terapiju poremećaja raspoloženja

        Rukovodilac projekta: dr Danka Savić

        Saradnici iz LIRA-e: dr Danka Savić, Nađa Marić, and Ivan Soldatović

      • 2011 - 2017: Identifikacija, merenje i razvoj kognitivnih i emocionalnih kompetencija važnih društvu orijentisanom na evropske integracije

        Rukovodilac projekta: dr Goran Knežević

        Saradnici iz LIRA-e: Aleksandra Lazić, dr Aleksandar Zorić, dr Danka Purić, dr Danka Savić, dr Goran Knežević, dr Goran Opačić, dr Iris Žeželj, dr Lazar Tenjović, dr Ljiljana B. Lazarević, dr Predrag Teovanović, dr Zorana Zupan, Jelena Vujičić, Marko Živanović, Milica Ninković, Petar Lukić, Tatjana Vukosavljević-Gvozden, Borjanka Batinić, and Sanda Stanković

      • 2004 - 2008: Psychobiology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

        Rukovodilac projekta: dr Goran Knežević

        Saradnici iz LIRA-e: dr Danka Savić and dr Goran Knežević