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 ...

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 ...

Bakgrunn: Adoptivbarn har hatt en spesiell start på livet sammenlignet med sine ikke-adopterte jevnaldrende. Dette kan utgjøre en risiko for senere utvikling. Tidligere forskning viser blant annet at noen internasjonalt ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

Ansatte utfører ofte handlinger i jobbsammenheng selv om de ikke inngår i deres stillingsinstruks. Denne typen atferd er kjent som ekstrarolleatferd, og kan enten være positiv og gagne bedriften, kalt organisasjonsborgeratferd ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Background: So far, most studies on anxiety development that have examined the impact of factors like self-esteem and peer relations have focused on symptoms of social anxiety. The current study is amongst the first to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following the global humanitarian crisis of 2015, there has been an increased interest in understanding how refugees are integrating into the Norwegian society. Of specific interest are refugee groups with relatively long ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...