Klinefelters syndrom (KS) er den vanligste kjønnskromosomforstyrrelsen blant menn, med en prevalens på omtrent 153 av 100 000 gutter. KS er kjennetegnet av et bredt spekter av symptomer knyttet til atypisk utvikling, ...

Taushet i psykodynamisk terapi har vært drøftet og forstått på ulike måter. Dette er en kvalitativ studie av en studentterapi, som har undersøkt problemstillingen: På hvilken måte kan oppmerksomhet på episoder med taushet ...

Increasing walking and cycling is important both for population health and, if done through active transportation, for the local and global climate. In addition to infrastructural and regulatory measures, voluntary behavior ...

This study investigated how doctors communicate the uncertainties of survival prognoses to patients recently diagnosed with life‐threatening cancer, and suggests ways to improve this communication. Two hundred thirty‐eight ...

Denne studien har utforsket hvordan psykologer og terapeuter vurderer betydningen av parterapi for flerkulturelle par i Norge, hva som er tilbudet til disse parene og hva terapeutene vurderer som særlig vesentlige elementer ...

Background: In many European countries, the rate of childlessness has increased and this increase is disproportionately large among men. It is thus important to study the antecedents of childlessness. Intelligence as a ...

This dissertation is based on a prospective longitudinal study of fathers’ adverse childhood experiences, partner attachment style, anxious and depressive feelings during pregnancy, and experience of parenting stress in ...

During the transitional age of adolescence, some – often girls – begin self-harming. A better understanding of their subjective experience of self-harm may reveal their sense of self and inform treatment adjustments. A ...

Systematic analyses of initiatives and responses from mediators working with parents in intense conflicts about child custody and care brought forward variations in effective strategies. The findings are presented along ...

Research indicates that lower-caste Dalits and Adivasis make up the overwhelming majority of Indians living in exploitative work conditions termed modern or contemporary slavery. This thesis set out to evaluate if an ...

Background The prevalence of obesity, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus is increased among patients with severe mental disorders, and particularly use of second generation antipsychotic drugs is associated ...

Denne studien hadde som et av sine overordnede mål å undersøke forskjeller og likheter i seksuell tilfredshet og –selvfølelse (i.e., affektiv-kognitiv seksuell helse) blant lesbiske og bifile kvinner (LB-kvinner) i Norge. ...

Schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) are severe mental disorders associated with cognitive impairment, which is considered a major determinant of functional outcome. Despite this, the etiology of the cognitive ...

Learning to regulate and manage emotions efficiently are important parts of normal development for children (Eisenberg, Cumberland, & Spinrad, 1998). Children learn a considerable amount about emotions from their ...

Bakgrunn og formål: I tolket psykoterapi mister terapeuten i en viss forstand kontrollen over sitt viktigste verktøy, nemlig språket. Ettersom språket er så viktig i psykoterapi, vil bruk av tolk kunne medføre endringer ...

Bakgrunn: Barn i risikofamilier har større sannsynlighet for skjevutvikling, både sosialt og helserelatert. Barnevernet tilbyr flere hjelpetiltak for å forebygge skjevutvikling hos barn i risiko for omsorgssvikt, men ...

Bakgrunn: Barn i risikofamilier har større sannsynlighet for skjevutvikling, både sosialt og helserelatert. Barnevernet tilbyr flere hjelpetiltak for å forebygge skjevutvikling hos barn i risiko for omsorgssvikt, men ...

Introduction: The quality of measures used to assess theory of mind (ToM) in severe mental illness has not been sufficiently investigated. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the ...

Background and aims Chronic pain is a leading cause to years lived with disability worldwide. However, few of the interventions used in pain medicine have proven efficacy, and evidence from the existing studies may not ...

Studies exploring the neurochemical underpinnings of basic, evolutionary rewards (i.e. tasty food and sex) have consistently implicated the endogenous opioid system during peak moments of consummatory pleasure. Less is ...

Restriction spectrum imaging (RSI) is a recently introduced magnetic resonance imaging diffusion technique. The utility of RSI in multiple sclerosis (MS) is unknown. To investigate the association between RSI-derived ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. By combining longitudinal MRI-based brain morphometry and brain age estimation using machine learning, we tested the hypothesis that MS ...

People with schizophrenia often have an unhealthy sedentary lifestyle with low level of physical activity and poor cardiorespiratory fitness—an important predictor of cardiovascular disease. We investigated the relations ...

Background: In the care of persons with cognitive problems, it is important to use a valid mild cognitive impairment (MCI) criterion that discriminates well between normal and pathological aging. Objective: To find the ...

Bakgrunn: Omsorgssvikt og mishandling i barndommen kan føre til alvorlige langtidskonsekvenser for psykisk og fysisk helse, så vel som tilpasningsvansker på en rekke livsområder. Barnevernets kjerneområde omhandler arbeid ...

Although it is well known that adolescent delinquent behavior is related to poor outcomes in adulthood, longitudinal research on specific acts of delinquency and their interplay with important individual characteristics ...

Organizations rely on human resource management (HRM) practices to steer organizational change, but little is known about the effects of HRM practices on employees’ attitudes towards change. This study aims to investigate ...

Using fMRI, Hugdahl et al. (2015) reported the existence of a general-domain cortical network during active task-processing which was non-specific to the cognitive task being processed. They labelled this network the ...

Background Some studies have previously found that certain elevated early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) are negative predictors for outcome for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) treated with ...

Oxytocin is a neuropeptide involved in animal and human reproductive and social behavior. Three oxytocin signaling genes have been frequently implicated in human social behavior: OXT (structural gene for oxytocin), OXTR ...

Schizophrenia is characterized by social cognitive impairments that predict functioning. Social cognitive training aims to target these impairments. Although it can improve the targeted social cognitive domain, it is unclear ...

Performance on recall tests improves through childhood and adolescence, in part due to structural maturation of the medial temporal cortex. Although partly different processes support successful recall over shorter vs. ...

Variations in levels of processing affect memory encoding and subsequent retrieval performance, but it is unknown how processing depth affects communication patterns within the network of interconnected brain regions ...

Objectives Poor sleep is associated with multiple age-related neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric conditions. The hippocampus plays a special role in sleep and sleep-dependent cognition, and accelerated hippocampal ...

Concerns have been growingabout the veracityof psychological research. Many findings in psychological science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be ...

Background and Objectives A healthy brain is central to physical and mental well-being. In this multi-site, qualitative study, we investigated views and attitudes of adult participants in brain research ...

Prosocial behavior, or voluntary actions that intentionally benefit others, relate to desirable developmental outcomes such as peer acceptance, while lack of prosocial behavior has been associated with several neurodevelopmental ...

Background The aim of this study is to provide a better understanding of the central symptoms of DSM‐5 posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents from the perspective of the child and its caregiver. ...

Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics and physical functioning in persons hospitalized after 2 terror attacks in Norway in 2011. Design: Cross-sectional study with retrospective acute medical data. Subjects: ...

In speech and music, the acoustic and perceptual onset(s) of a sound are usually not congruent with its perceived temporal location. Rather, these "P-centers" are heard some milliseconds after the acoustic onset, and a ...

Common risk factors for psychiatric and other brain disorders are likely to converge on biological pathways influencing the development and maintenance of brain structure and function across life. Using structural MRI data ...

Social stress and inflammatory processes are strong regulators of one another. Considerable evidence shows that social threats trigger inflammatory responses that increase infection susceptibility in both humans and animals, ...

How do young people interpret and negotiate their sense of being affected in the context of social media use? Our study draws on recent theorizing that views affective practices as discursive, relational and imbued with ...

A configuration of infantile attributes including a large head, large eyes, with a small nose and mouth low on the head comprise the visual baby schema or Kindchenschema that English speakers call “cute.” In contrast to ...

People may think about time by mentally imaging it in some spatial form, or as “spacetime.” In an online survey, 76,922 Norwegian individuals positioned two dots corresponding to the months of December and March on what ...

Aims: The current study explore the relationship between the trajectories of primary panic disorder symptoms and secondary depressive symptoms during guided internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy for panic ...

Detecting errors and adjusting behaviour appropriately are fundamental cognitive abilities that are known to improve through adolescence. The cognitive and neural processes underlying this development, however, are still ...

Study 1a of Giessner and Schubert (2007) found a causal effect of vertical spatial cues on power judgments. Recent work showed that this was a false positive (Klein et al., 2018). Here, we test whether another paradigm ...

Childhood and adolescence captures a remarkable period of change, and is the central period for major reorganization and optimization of the cerebral cortex. This maturation is mirrored by major cognitive improvements ...

Bakgrunn: Huntingtons sykdom (HS) er en arvelig, nevrodegenerativ lidelse preget av somatiske og psykologiske symptomer. Sykdommen kan påvirke den rammedes omsorgsevne, familiemedlemmene rundt og spesielt barna som vokser ...

This study investigated the relationship between narcissism and OCB mediated by impression management motives (IM motives) and moderated by perceived performance appraisal. The study performed two analyses, one with ...

Depression is a debilitating disorder with a high prevalence compared to most other mental disorders. It has become increasingly apparent that depression is clinically heterogenous, most notably in terms of the breadth and ...

Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) including 20,352 cases and 31,358 controls of European descent, with follow-up analysis of 822 variants with ...

Background We characterised the phenotypic consequence of genetic variation at the PCSK9 locus and compared findings with recent trials of pharmacological inhibitors of PCSK9. ...

When communal sharing relationships (CSRs) suddenly intensify, people experience an emotion that English speakers may label, depending on context, “moved,” “touched,” “heart-warming,” “nostalgia,” “patriotism,” or “rapture” ...

Background Health professionals in Norway are required by law to help safeguard information and follow-up with children of parents with mental or physical illness, or who have substance abuse problems, to ...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between organizational climate, individual readiness for change, and work fatigue. The thesis investigates global climate as conceptualized by Kuenzi (2008), based on ...

I dagens Norge er monogami ansett som den mest naturlige og selvsagte formen for samlivsorganisering. Norge kan derfor kalles en mononormativ kultur. Personer som praktiserer poly lever åpent med flere romantiske og/eller ...

The purpose of the current thesis was to elucidate the impact of the different social withdrawal subtypes (unsociability, avoidance, shyness, isolation) on several psychological outcomes - life satisfaction, loneliness and ...

Innenfor utviklingspsykologien har det lenge blitt undersøkt hvilke faktorer som bidrar til at noen barn utvikler seg normalt, mens andre barn utvikler psykiske vansker. En betydelig andel av denne forskningen er drevet ...

27 toppledergrupper fra den norske statsforvaltningen ble undersøkt for å kunne svare på om teamutvikling virker i ledergrupper. Toppledergruppene ble målt to ganger på 26 ulike variabler som omhandler effektivitet i ...

Studien har undersøkt norske virksomheters praktiske bruk og erfaring med evidensbaserte seleksjonsmetoder i lederseleksjon. Formålet med studien var å sammenligne evidensbaserte standarder og virksomhetenes reelle HR-praksis ...

This study aimed to investigate for the first time the relationship between attachment, information seeking and epistemic trust in adults. The study takes a relational approach by investigating information seeking in the ...

In recent years there has been increased attention to child neurodevelopment in studies on medication safety in pregnancy. Neurodevelopment is a multifactorial outcome that can be assessed by various assessors, using ...

Background and aims Hazardous drinking (i.e. alcohol consumption that places drinkers at risk for adverse health outcomes) during pregnancy is associated with adverse child outcomes. To address whether the associations ...

Background Fatigue and depression are frequent and often co-occurring symptoms in multiple sclerosis (MS). Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) represents a promising tool for disentangling ...

Formålet med denne hovedoppgaven er å utforske hvordan unge voksne pasienter og deres behandlere opplever overgangen fra barne- og ungdomspsykiatrisk poliklinikk (BUP) til Distriktspsykiatrisk poliklinikk (DPS), for dermed ...

Å ta vare på andre versus å ta vare på seg selv kan anses som «det store menneskelige drama». For psykoterapeuter som bruker seg selv i det endringsfremmende arbeidet blir denne balansegangen av stor betydning. Å møte en ...

Å ta vare på andre versus å ta vare på seg selv kan anses som «det store menneskelige drama». For psykoterapeuter som bruker seg selv i det endringsfremmende arbeidet blir denne balansegangen av stor betydning. Å møte en ...

I Norge er en rutineultralydundersøkelse ved uke 17-19 inkludert i det anbefalte svangerskapsprogrammet. Selv om ultralydundersøkelsen er høyt verdsatt av vordende foreldre, har teknologisk utvikling ført til at stadig ...

Background There is a lack of knowledge of possible cognitive side effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) beyond the first few months after treatment. We aim to describe cognitive effects and symptom remission 2 years ...

Forfatter: Minna Lind Christiansen. Veiledere: Elfrida Hartveit Kvarstein (hovedveileder), Line Indrevoll Stänicke (medveileder) Hovedproblemstilling: Hva er den kliniske nytteverdien av behandling ved en psykodynamisk, ...

Bakgrunn: Atferdsvansker forekommer hyppigere i høyrisikoutvalg, slik som hos barn av mødre i legemiddelassistert rehabilitering (LAR), og representerer en potensiell risiko for senere skjevutvikling. Det er derfor interesse ...

Bakgrunn: Atferdsvansker forekommer hyppigere i høyrisikoutvalg, slik som hos barn av mødre i legemiddelassistert rehabilitering (LAR), og representerer en potensiell risiko for senere skjevutvikling. Det er derfor interesse ...

Bakgrunn: Blant faktorer som kan forbedre effekten av kognitiv atferdsterapi (KAT) for barn og unge med angst, er behandlingsmotivasjon en av faktorene som kan være av betydning. På tross av en gjeldende forståelse i ...

People’s intuitions about mathematical and statistical concepts often include features that are not a part of the formal definitions. We argue that randomness and related concepts (events happening “accidentally”, ...

I Norge har vi manglende evidensbaserte behandlingsprogrammer for personer som opplever sosiale kommunikasjonsvansker etter ervervede hjerneskader, dette til tross for at vanskene er svært utbredt og får store konsekvenser ...

Bakgrunn: Formålet med studien har vært å belyse selvrapportert eksekutiv funksjon i dagliglivet, helserelatert livskvalitet og fatigue blant barn og ungdom som har overlevd hjernesvulst eller traumatisk hjerneskade. Metode: ...