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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction: Although considered a promising design for testing social cognition, it is not clear to what extent the EmoBio test of emotion recognition actually predicts community functioning. It is also not clear whether ...

Reduced telomere length (TL) and structural brain abnormalities have been reported in patients with schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD). Childhood traumatic events are more frequent in SZ and BD than in healthy ...

Background Multiple factors can influence the working alliance and treatment outcome in speech and language therapy. The ‘working alliance’ is an important concept in treatment and can be described as the degree to which ...

Emotional investment may be defined as a willingness to accept and become committed to a child, and being aware of influencing the child's development. Research in this field is limited, and has shown that commitment in ...

Background Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are persistent organic pollutants that are suspected to be neurodevelopmental toxicants, but epidemiological evidence on neurodevelopmental effects of PFAS exposure is inconsistent. ...

Very little is known about potentially dangerous forms of weight control or compensatory behaviors involving deliberately exposing oneself to cold temperature. We investigated frequency of intentional cold exposure behavior ...

The present study tested two assumptions concerning the auditory processing of microtiming in musical grooves (i.e., repeating, movement-inducing rhythmic patterns): 1) Microtiming challenges the listener's internal framework ...

Background In most maternity wards in Norway, early discharge (<48 hour) is the norm. To monitor newborns’ and women's health during the first week after delivery, most maternity wards offer early check‐ups, where ...

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 and aims Pain catastrophizing has consistently been related to a variety of negative outcomes within chronic pain conditions, but competing models exist explaining the role of catastrophizing. According to ...

Background: Individual differences in executive function may influence eating behavior, weight loss (WL), and WL maintenance in obesity treatment. Executive function, which designates top-down cognitive control processes, ...

Objective: To inquire into the subjective experience of treatment by persons diagnosed with avoidant personality disorder. Methods: Persons with avoidant personality disorder (n = 15) were interviewed twice, using ...

The human insula is known to be involved in auditory processing, but knowledge about its precise functional role and the underlying electrophysiology is limited. To assess its role in automatic auditory deviance detection ...

Emerging evidence suggests that prenatal stress does not solely undermine child functioning but increases developmental plasticity to both negative and positive postnatal experiences. Here we test this proposition using ...

The state of the future world is uncertain. Will it rain tomorrow? Will Donald Trump still be president in 2019? Will the world’s average temperature rise by more than 2 ºC? These questions can only be answered probabilistically, ...

Background Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is consistently associated with lower levels of educational attainment. A recent large genome-wide association study identified ...

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 ...

Background: The combination of eating disorder (ED) and the experience of childhood trauma leads to significant impairment and suffering. To improve treatment, it is critically important to study treatment effects, and the ...

Genetic influences on psychiatric disorders transcend diagnostic boundaries, suggesting substantial pleiotropy of contributing loci. However, the nature and mechanisms of these pleiotropic effects remain unclear. We performed ...

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: ...

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: ...

Purpose: To assess the feasibility of recruitment procedures and delivery of a Norwegian adaptation of a manualized cognitive intervention to a civilian sample with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Materials and methods: ...

Author: Kristin Samuelsen. Title: Emerging Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Prenatal and Postnatal Depression. Supervisors: Main supervisor Eivind Ystrøm, and co-supervisors Line C. Gjerde and Espen M. Eilertsen. ...

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 ...

The close connection between psychology and human rights is discussed through a presentation of the Human Rights Committee in the Norwegian Psychological Association. The importance of human rights education for a human ...

Globalization is on the agenda as a cause of job insecurity, but knowledge regarding the relationship between globalization, management practices, and employee job insecurity is in fact limited. This study aims to investigate ...

Objective: The aim of the study was to compare the development of working memory and preliminary stages of attentional processing in individuals with ADHD over a 23- to 25-year period. Method: Individuals with ADHD ( n = ...

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”, ...

Formål: En stadig økende andel eldre i befolkningen øker behovet for mer kunnskap om psykisk helse i denne aldersgruppen. Denne studien kartlegger depresjons- og angstsymptomer hos et utvalg norske eldre, inkludert kjønns- ...

Formål: En stadig økende andel eldre i befolkningen øker behovet for mer kunnskap om psykisk helse i denne aldersgruppen. Denne studien kartlegger depresjons- og angstsymptomer hos et utvalg norske eldre, inkludert kjønns- ...

Objective: Psychological predictors of breast cancer screening, and in particular screening avoidance, have not been a focus of research in Norway. Studying psychological predictors may help to understand why some women ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forfatter: Peder Frogner Tittel: For hvem og hvordan fungerer CBT-I: En litteraturstudie av moderatorer og mediatorer i CBT-I Veileder: Silje Endresen Reme Innledning: Cognitive Behavioral Theraphy for Insomnia (Heretter ...

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 ...

Study Objectives To assess brain activation patterns in response to fun-rated and neutral-rated movies we performed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during a humor-paradigm in narcolepsy type ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine whether reaction time parameters in adult patients with ADHD could predict their response to methylphenidate (MPH). Method: Previously unmedicated patients (N = 123) were ...

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by numerous subtle changes in brain structure and function. Machine learning allows exploring the utility of combining structural and functional brain magnetic resonance ...

Bakgrunn: Drømmer har fascinert mennesker i mange årtusener, men en felles forståelse for drømmens mening og funksjon er ennå ikke oppnådd. Noen ser på drømmer som beskjeder fra underbevisstheten som kan gi informasjon om ...

Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness with severe consequences for patients and society. However, a large degree of heterogeneity is apparent. Research on First-Episode Schizophrenia (FES) shows better outcome ...

Bakgrunn og formål: Vold i parforhold har en rekke alvorlige konsekvenser som underbygger viktigheten av å forstå hvilke mekanismer som ligger til grunn for atferden. Flere forskningsoppsummeringer finner i lys av dette ...

Disruption of non-drug reward processing in addiction could stem from long-term drug use, addiction-related psychosocial stress, or a combination of these. It remains unclear whether long-term opioid maintenance treatment ...

The brain is the most complex of human organs, and the pathophysiology underlying abnormal brain function in psychiatric disorders is largely unknown. Despite the rapid development of diagnostic tools and treatments in ...

Abstract Background Little is known about the mental health of prenatally opioid- and polydrug-exposed youth raised in foster/adoptive families. Aim To compare mental health problems among two groups of youth, one prenatally ...

Aims Having a substance use disorder (SUD) is associated with impaired reflective functioning (RF) or mentalizing, implying reduced capacity to reflect on internal mental states of the self and others. This has adverse ...

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 ...

Forfattere: Simen Aurstad Gjernes og Hanne Sofie Wernø Nilsson Tittel: Veiledet internettbasert selvhjelp i primærhelsetjenesten: Implementeringskvalitet fra behandlernes perspektiv Veileder: Henrik Natvig Bakgrunn: ...

Forfattere: Simen Aurstad Gjernes og Hanne Sofie Wernø Nilsson Tittel: Veiledet internettbasert selvhjelp i primærhelsetjenesten: Implementeringskvalitet fra behandlernes perspektiv Veileder: Henrik Natvig Bakgrunn: ...

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 ...

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: Denne studiens formål var todelt. Formålet var innledningsvis å kartlegge forekomst av masturbasjon hos eldre menn og kvinner i Norge. Dernest ønsket man å utforske hvordan sosiodemografiske faktorer som blant ...

Purpose: The Little in Norway (LiN) project is a cross-disciplinary prospective longitudinal study starting in pregnancy. It was set up to investigate maternal and paternal mental health functioning in the transition to ...

Rationale and aims There is a growing expectation of implementing shared decision making (SDM) in today's health care service, including mental health care. Traditional understanding of SDM may be too narrow to capture ...

Innledning: I denne systematiske litteraturgjennomgangen undersøkes betydningen av timefrekvens for utfall i poliklinisk psykologisk behandling av voksne. Hva er optimalt med tanke på hvor ofte man bør gå i terapi? Alle ...

Bakgrunn: I Norge skal flyktninger og asylsøkere ivaretas av det offentlige helsevesenet, på lik linje med personer født og oppvokst i Norge (Helsedirektoratet, 2015). Dette innebærer at flyktninger med alvorlige psykiske ...

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

Aims/hypothesis MODY can be wrongly diagnosed as type 1 diabetes in children. We aimed to find the prevalence of MODY in a nationwide population-based registry of childhood diabetes. Methods Using next-generation ...

Susceptibility to schizophrenia is inversely correlated with general cognitive ability at both the phenotypic and the genetic level. Paradoxically, a modest but consistent positive genetic correlation has been reported ...

This study examines client utterances that can be understood as ambivalent in violence-focused therapy. The purpose is to enrich our scientific understanding of client contributions to therapy when they appear ambivalent ...

Objectives Perceived/experienced stigma and its relationship with clinical outcome were investigated across the first year of treatment in a large sample with first-episode psychosis (FEP). Methods FEP participants ...

Objective To examine whether individuals with schizophrenia (SCZ) or bipolar disorder (BD) had equal likelihood of not being diagnosed with cardiovascular disease (CVD) prior to cardiovascular death, compared to individuals ...

Background Women with bipolar disorder (BD) have a high risk of illness relapse postpartum. The risk coincides with the period when mother-infant interactions are evolving. We compared mother-infant ...

Objective: To explore the health situation and identify specific health challenges in non-Western immigrants with polio in Norway, by comparing their status with Western immigrants with polio and native Norwegians with ...

Studies report increased risk of congenital heart defects (CHD) in the offspring of mothers with diabetes, where high blood glucose levels might confer the risk. We explored the association between intake of sucrose-sweetened ...

Are people with superior intelligence also superior in interpreting the emotions of others? Some studies find that an underlying g-factor links all mental processes leading to an expectation of a positive answer to the ...

In a series of eye-tracking studies, we investigated preverbal infants’ understanding of social exclusion by analyzing their gaze behaviors as they were familiarized with animations depicting social acceptance and explicit ...

The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review assessing workplace factors related to work retention (or return to work) in employees with acquired brain injury (ABI). Additionally, we aimed to synthesise ...

In recent years, narcissism has been reconceptualized as a multi‐dimensional feature of human psychology. The Five Factor Narcissism Inventory (FFNI ) has been proposed as a measure for two distinguishable dimensions of ...

Exposures to life stressors accumulate across the lifespan, with possible impact on brain health. Little is known, however, about the mechanisms mediating age-related changes in brain structure. We use a lifespan sample ...

Background Recovery is the ultimate goal of psychosis treatment . Basic self-disturbances (BSDs) are non-psychotic phenomena associated with clinical outcome, present in prodromal, psychotic and residual phases of psychotic ...

Objective Although cigarette smoking has been linked to weight‐related concerns and unhealthy weight control practices, little is known about weight dissatisfaction and eating among adolescents who use smokeless tobacco ...