Inhibition is one of the core concepts in cognitive neuroscience, referring to a higher-order control mechanism that can arrest or cancel the output of other functional systems. Inhibition of motor responses is assumed to ...

Schizophrenia has traditionally been regarded as a severe mental illness with limited prospects of full recovery. Research on first-episode schizophrenia (FES) has provided some new insights, although there is still much ...

The thesis examines developmental changes in fundamental neural and cognitive processes underlying attention and cognitive control across adolescence. Using electroencephalography (EEG), the results generally indicate that ...

The intergroup relations between different status groups are not merely antagonistic relations. Thus, the main point of this research is to explore other possible intergroup relationship by adopting the relational mode ...

Following the “refugee crisis,” Germany has faced a rise in both right-wing and Islamist extremism. It has been argued that sports contexts may be suitable to reduce intergroup tensions including its more extreme forms, ...

Background Research has consistently shown that early onset of drinking (EOD) is associated with alcohol-related problems in adulthood. However, recent reviews have identified several limitations in the ...

Regarded as the product of prolonged and sustained efforts, creativity is still often associated with the rare moments when a solution to a problem suddenly bursts into consciousness: the hallmark of sudden insight. The ...

In a fragmented and accelerated world of globalization and emerging nationalism, social and cultural psychologists can play an important role to investigate the national and superordinate identities. This study addresses ...

Background/Objective: In recent years, several slightly younger cohorts have been established in order to study the preclinical and prodromal phases of dementia. The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease ...

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 ...

Cognitive deficits are a core feature of schizophrenia and appear with increased severity in early-onset schizophrenia (EOS). EOS is defined as onset of symptoms before 18 years of age. Affected youths often experience ...

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 ...

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) ...

Investigating the impact of school-age children’s ToM (declarative knowledge) on the way they interact (procedural skills) with another child and their performance in cooperative problem-solving tasks is a valid way to ...

Background Following treatment, many depressed patients have significant residual symptoms. However, large randomised controlled trials (RCT) in this population are lacking. When Attention bias modification ...

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 ...

Depression is the worldwide leading burden of disease and one of the most prevalent psychological disorders. Causes and mechanisms of depression are insufficiently understood. The ability to regulate emotion is important, ...

Conflict monitoring and adaption processes appear associated with frontal-midline theta (fm-theta). The support for this association is found in correlational electroencephalography (EEG) studies and a few transcranial ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background Over the past decades research has shown that employment has a positive impact on quality of life, global functioning and recovery in individuals with schizophrenia. However, access to vocational ...

Contemporary cognitive models incorporate an information-processing approach in explaining the causes of depression. The common core in these models is that depression is caused by a vicious cycle of negative thoughts and ...

Background For some young persons diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, treatment will inevitably involve phases where hospitalization is required. Inspired by the encouraging evidence-base for outpatient ...

Formålet med studien er å få et innblikk i hvordan ungdom opplever å delta i et tilpasset ungdomsprogram. Det ble utført semi-strukturerte intervju med fire ungdommer som deltok i ungdomsprogrammet til Kompass og Co. ...

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 ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan forståelser av kropp forhandles fram av kvinner på et internasjonalt nettforum for anoreksi. Kvinnenes forståelser av kropp blir også knyttet opp mot deres forståelse av kjønn og seksualitet. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...

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: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Formålet med denne studien er å undersøke om effekten av ledergruppeutvikling varer over tid. I tillegg undersøkes utviklingsforløpet til 27 ulike indikatorer på effektive ledergrupper. Elleve ledergrupper blant norske ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...