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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...

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 = ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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. ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Research on sex in later life has been concerned with documenting that older people continue to have sex and establishing the links between good health and sexual activity. Although sexual avoidance is common in clinical ...

The purpose of the study was to elucidate the relationship between personality traits, perfectionism, and mental health (self-efficacy, positive emotions) among competition riders. Data were collected by online questionnaires ...

Having “good rhythm” is essential in both music and competitive rowing, but what exactly constitutes “good rhythm,” and how do we achieve it? Although rhythm is often discussed in purely auditory terms, I argue that rhythm ...

The ways in which the discrepancy between one’s own interest in sex and that of one’s partner may affect personal sexual satisfaction has rarely been systematically studied, especially among older adults. Previous research ...

Hvilke utfordringer under utredning og behandling er det transpersoner opplever etter å ha oppsøkt helsehjelp på grunn av sin kjønnsidentitet? Undersøkelsen har som formål å utforske transpersoners opplevelser av utfordringer ...

Infants undergo extensive developments during their frst year of life. Although the biological mechanisms involved are not yet fully understood, changes in the DNA methylation in mammals are believed to play a key role. ...

In many Western countries, the public has extensively debated factors potentially leading Muslim minority-group members to support violence by foreign extremist states or to commit violence themselves. Here, one central ...

Little is known about the psychological processes through which people connect to nature. From social psychology, we know that emotions play an essential role when connecting to others. In this article, we argue that social ...

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 ...

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: The role of common and symptom‐specific genetic and environmental influences in maintaining eating disorder symptoms across development remains unclear. This study investigates the continuity and change of ...

Aim Acute Epstein–Barr virus (EBV ) infection is a trigger of prolonged fatigue. This study investigated baseline predictors of physical activity six months after an acute EBV infection. Methods A total of 200 ...

The opioid system regulates affective processing, including pain, pleasure, and reward. Restricting the role of this system to hedonic modulation may be an underestimation, however. Opioid receptors are distributed widely ...

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 ...

There is evidence that emotional connectedness can buffer the distress associated with sexual difficulties. Considering that older adults are at an increased risk of chronic illness, many of which (including their medical ...

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – Fifth Edition (WISC-V) ble publisert i USA i 2014 og den norske versjonen kom i 2017. Norsk og internasjonal rettighetshaver er Pearson Assessment. Oversettelsesarbeidet, inkludert ...

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 ...

Objectives Individual placement and support (IPS) is an effective approach for helping people with severe mental illness gain employment. This study aimed to investigate if IPS can be effectively repurposed to support young ...

Unaccompanied refugee minors are a particularly vulnerable group. The aim of this study is to increase our knowledge about possible pathways to well-being and integration for unaccompanied refugee minors as they strive to ...

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 ...

Introduction Long-term sick leave and disabilities due to common mental disorders are challenging for society, employers, and individuals. Hence, we wanted to investigate whether psychosocial work environments experienced ...

While snus has been the focus of increasing public health interest, twin studies have examined neither sources of individual variation for its use nor the sources of resemblance between snus and cigarette use. Twins from ...

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 ...

Objective: Norway is a high-income and high-cost society with a generous welfare system, and it has the largest mental health–related unemployment gap of the OECD countries. The aim of the current article was to present a ...

A Sudanese Revolution overthrew the sitting regime in 2019, and a transitional government is in place. This article explores Sudanese respondents’ take on how the former regime managed to stay in power for so long. The ...

The impacts of body dissatisfaction have been widely studied among adolescent girls, but much less in women in mid-life. In this study, we evaluated the associations between body dissatisfaction, psychological health and ...

This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of a recently conceptualized childhood disorder; disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD). The reinforcement sensitivity theory of personality (RST) is presented ...

First-hand experience of being a client is regarded by many psychotherapists as making an essential contribution to professional development. Although research has not established any direct influence on client outcome, ...

Background. Anhedonia, defined as a reduced capacity to experience pleasure, has been associated with many clinical conditions, including major depressive disorder (MDD), schizophrenia (SCZ), substance use disorder (SUD) ...

Background Lithium is recommended as a first line treatment for bipolar disorders. However, only 30% of patients show an optimal outcome and variability in lithium response and tolerability is poorly ...

Electroencephalographic (EEG) and magnetoencephalographic (MEG) signals can often be exposed to strong power line interference at 50 or 60 Hz. A widely used method to remove line noise is the notch filter, but it comes ...

Dette er ein kvalitativ studie av to ekspertposisjonar i ein studentterapi. Studien har søkt å belyse følgande problemstilling: Kva samspelsdynamikkar inviterer dei to ekspertposisjonane «diagnostisk utredning» og «analytisk ...

The GAD-7 is commonly used as a measure of general anxiety symptoms across various settings and populations. However, there has been disagreement regarding the factor structure of the GAD-7, and there is a need for larger ...

How depressive symptoms unfold within a couple during the perinatal events of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood is poorly understood. In this prospective study, we aim to investigate the reciprocal relation between ...

Little is known about how climatic differences may psychologically impact individuals who migrate from one geographical area to another. A climatic demand theory perspective suggests that migration from more demanding ...

Cannabis ble introdusert i Norge på 1960-tallet, i kjølvannet av ungdomsopprøret som rullet over den vestlige verden. Bruken var stabil på 1970- og 80-tallet, men økte kraftig på 1990-tallet og ble da knyttet til teorien ...

Background: Studies reveal that users of mental health care services sometimes experience humiliation during care. These experiences may influence the users' recovery process and treatment satisfaction. Method: Thirteen ...

Background Accumulating evidence supports cerebellar involvement in mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. However, little ...