There is considerable consensus that impairment in executive functions (EF) constitutes a central source of the disability in children and adolescents with ADHD. Recent studies, however, have reported that EF test results ...

Perceived health status (HS) and quality of life (QoL) are regularly used as outcome variables to evaluate the effect of various treatments for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Disease-specific ...

In this thesis we use genetically informative samples of twins and nuclear families to estimate the relative influence of genetic and environmental risk factors for a varied set of mental disorders. <br> In the first two ...

Peer Gynt, the main character in Ibsen’s dramatic poem from 1867, has fascinated scholars since its publication. For more than 100 years, Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt has been interpreted in the light of Søren Kierkegaard. A ...

Several studies have shown that when people are asked to estimate the probabilities for a set of exclusive and exhaustive events they often produce probabilities that add up to more than 1 or 100% (Robinson & Hastie, 1985; ...

Schizophrenia has traditionally been regarded as a severe mental illness with limited prospects of full recovery. Research on first-episode schizophrenia (FES) has provided some new insights, although there is still much ...

The content and experience of partnered sex may likely change as couples age, which can lead to sexual distress but also greater intimacy and sexual quality (Lodge & Umberson, 2012). The overall purpose of this thesis is ...

Bakgrunn: Depresjon og alkoholproblemer er to av de tre mest vanlige psykiske lidelsene i Norge. Pasienter med depresjon og kjente alkoholproblemer behandles vanligvis innenfor tverrfaglig spesialisert rusmiddelbehandling ...

Avhandlingen omhandler TIB for barn i alderen 5-11 år og baserer seg på analyser av blant annet 108 terapisesjoner med barna. I fire kvalitative delstudier blir betydningen av felles fokus, sentrale tema i terapiprosessene ...