Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is increasingly becoming considered a network disease, whose effects spread beyond the temporal lobes to strongly interconnected cortical areas. However, little is known about how connectivity ...

Late-life depression is associated with reduced cognitive function beyond normal age-related cognitive deficits. As comorbid anxiety frequently occur in late-life depression, this study aimed to examine the association ...

Author: Frida Karine Feyer Title: How I See Myself in You. Social Perception and Clinical Insight in Schizophrenia Supervisors: Professor Stein Andersson and Senior Research Psychologist Anja Vaskinn Background: Schizophrenia ...

Bakgrunn: Yoga er en østlig spirituell praksis med røtter flere tusen år tilbake i tid. I dag praktiseres yoga over hele verden og er blitt en populær form for trening og stressmestring i Vesten. De to siste tiårene har ...

Oppgaven ser på sentrale problemstillinger som har vært reist i forskning på videospill og drøfter gaming i et kulturpsykologisk perspektiv. Problemfokuserte forståelser av gaming legger ofte til grunn en bekymring rundt ...

Bakgrunn: Fødselsdepresjon er en av de vanligste komplikasjonene ved fødsel. Mye av forskningen om fødselsdepresjon handler om de negative påvirkningene depresjonen kan ha på mor og barn. Det foreligger derimot lite kunnskap ...

Bakgrunn: Formålet med den foreliggende studien var å undersøke sammenhengen mellom kjønn, generelt og genitalt kroppsbilde, hyppighet av onani og orgasme, og om denne sammenhengen var lik eller ulik for personer av ulik ...

Bakgrunn: Formålet med den foreliggende studien var å undersøke sammenhengen mellom kjønn, generelt og genitalt kroppsbilde, hyppighet av onani og orgasme, og om denne sammenhengen var lik eller ulik for personer av ulik ...

Background: Depression and anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders among adults and are associated with a high burden of disease. While there are effective treatments for these disorders, many do not get ...

I Norge behandles årlig 110-120 pasienter med allogen stamcelletransplantasjon for maligne og noen ikke-maligne blodsykdommer. Av disse er 20-30 barn. Allogen stamcelletransplantasjon regnes for å være en av de mest krevende ...

Background: Behavior problems in children are common and widely studied, and a range of etiological explanations for both the genesis and the persistence of behavior problems have been proposed. In the past 20 years, ...

The reviewed literature suggests suicidal cognitions is recurrent in nature, and how relapse is caused by cognitive reactivity as hypothesised by the differential activation hypothesis. Due to activation of mental nodes ...

Bakgrunn og mål: Langtidssykefravær er belastende for både individ og samfunn, og psykiske lidelser er en av hovedårsakene til sykefravær og uførepensjon. Et arbeidsrehabiliteringstiltak for personer med angst og depresjon, ...

Bakgrunn: Aksept- og forpliktelsesterapi (ACT) regnes som en tredjegenerasjons kognitiv atferdsterapi. Modellen har sterk empirisk støtte i form av kvantitative studier, men er i liten grad undersøkt kvalitativt. Ingen ...

Bakgrunn: Aksept- og forpliktelsesterapi (ACT) regnes som en tredjegenerasjons kognitiv atferdsterapi. Modellen har sterk empirisk støtte i form av kvantitative studier, men er i liten grad undersøkt kvalitativt. Ingen ...

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, ...

Mothers with a substance use disorder (SUD) have been found to exhibit heightened experience of stress and deficits in executive functioning (EF) and in parental reflective functioning (PRF). Although experiences of stress, ...

Depression is a highly recurrent disorder with limited treatment alternatives for reducing risk of subsequent episodes. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and attention bias modification (ABM) separately have shown ...

From the 2016 US presidential election and into 2019, we demonstrate that a visceral feeling of oneness (that is, psychological fusion) with a political leader can fuel partisans’ willingness to actively participate in ...

Introduction: Compromised integrity of the brain due to paediatric acquired brain injury (pABI) has been associated with cognitive impairment, particularly executive dysfunction, in addition to somatic and emotional symptoms ...

Forskningen har studert hjelpearbeidere mer generelt, med et fokus på etiske dilemmaer og stressreaksjoner. Dermed er det begrenset forskning på psykologer som faggruppe. Formålet for hovedoppgaven er å utforske hvordan ...

Forskningsspørsmål: Hva kjennetegner ungdommers opplevelser av MST-behandling? Hva trekker de frem som viktig og nyttig i sine vurderinger av MST? Bakgrunn og formål: Multisystemisk terapi (MST) er en familie- og nærmiljøbasert ...

Inhibition can be defined as our ability to resist interference and suppress automatic responses. It is a central part of cognitive control, which is crucial to selecting and prioritizing important information. Deficits ...

Sammendrag Forfattere: Nina Kristine Jansson og Johanne Masvie Tittel:” Når livet vender tilbake” – En kvalitativ studie om opplevelsen av å bevege seg fra selvmordstanker til fremtidstanker Veileder: Svein Mossige Biveileder: ...

Sammendrag Forfattere: Nina Kristine Jansson og Johanne Masvie Tittel:” Når livet vender tilbake” – En kvalitativ studie om opplevelsen av å bevege seg fra selvmordstanker til fremtidstanker Veileder: Svein Mossige Biveileder: ...

Terror Management Theory (TMT) har i over 30 år studert de kognitive og atferdsmessige effektene av å bli gjort oppmerksom på sin egen død, referert til som dødssaliens (eng. mortality salience). Helt siden Ernest Becker ...

Forfatter: Kaja Schau Knatten Tittel: Å bli foreldre prematurt – en kvalitativ studie av hvordan foreldre til premature barn opplever å være ved en nyfødtintensivavdeling Veiledere: Hovedveileder Kari Slinning, biveileder ...

AUTHOR: Tor Amund Voll Storaas. MAIN SUPERVISOR: Professor Merete Glenne Øie. CO-SUPERVISOR: Professor Jens Egeland. BACKGROUND: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is currently understood as a neurodevelopmental ...

Authors: Mathilde Solberg Jensen and Karethe Hustad Torgersen Title: Predictors of Criminality and Substance Use in Adolescents with ADHD: A 23-Year Follow-up Study Supervisor I: Merete Glenne Øie; Supervisor II: Jens ...

Authors: Mathilde Solberg Jensen and Karethe Hustad Torgersen Title: Predictors of Criminality and Substance Use in Adolescents with ADHD: A 23-Year Follow-up Study Supervisor I: Merete Glenne Øie; Supervisor II: Jens ...

Denne hovedoppgaven har blitt utformet som en del av profesjonsutdanningen i psykologi ved Universitetet i Oslo. Oppgaven “Langtidspsykefravær - hva øker sjansen for tilbakeføring til arbeid?” er skrevet av Une Elise ...

Likeverdige helsetjenester er et viktig begrep i Norge og internasjonalt for å sikre alle like muligheter, tilgang, kvalitet og resultater for helsehjelp uavhengig av kulturell bakgrunn, tro og tilhørighet. Norske ...

Bakgrunn: Globalisering og innvandring gjør Norge til et stadig mer flerkulturelt land. Dette representerer en ressurs og berikelse for samfunnet, men også enkelte utfordringer. Norsk statistikk tyder på at det er høyere ...

Formål: Formålet med studien er å undersøke den terapeutiske kulturs innflytelse på konservative protestantiske trossamfunn i Norge. Med utgangspunkt i relevant teori har jeg tatt for meg i hvilken grad og på hvilke måter ...

Norske domstoler behandler årlig rundt 2600 foreldretvister, og av disse går mellom 20 og 30 prosent videre til hovedforhandling. Sakkyndigvurderinger har mye å si for utfallet i disse sakene, og er et omdiskutert tema, ...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder that influences a wide range of functions, including cognition. Over the past 30 years, deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) has been ...

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 ...

This paper presents a method called Topic Change Process Analysis (TCPA). The authors developed this method as a means of analysing therapy transcripts which focus on topic changes related to the verbal client/therapist ...

Evidence-based practices that are implemented in mental health services are often challenging to sustain. In this focus-group study, 26 mental health practitioners with high fidelity scores were interviewed regarding their ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...