• ASSERT - The Autism Symptom SElf-ReporT for adolescents and adults: Bifactor analysis and validation in a large adolescent population 

      Posserud, Maj-Britt Rocio; Breivik, Kyrre; Gillberg, Christopher; Lundervold, Astri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-12)
      With a view to developing a brief screening instrument for autism symptoms in a general population of adolescents, seven items from the Asperger syndrome (and high-functioning autism) diagnostic interview were adapted for ...
    • Auditory verbal hallucinations in persons with and without a need for care 

      Johns, Louise C.; Kompus, Kristiina; Connell, Melissa; Humpston, Clara; Lincoln, Tania M.; Longden, Eleanor; Preti, Antonio; Alderson-Day, Ben; Badcock, Johanna C.; Cella, Matteo; Fernyhough, Charles; McCarthy-Jones, Simon; Peters, Emmanuelle; Raballo, Andrea; Scott, James; Siddi, Sara; Sommer, Iris E.; Larøi, Frank (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are complex experiences that occur in the context of various clinical disorders. AVH also occur in individuals from the general population who have no identifiable psychiatric or ...
    • Deep learning for neuroimaging: A validation study 

      Plis, Sergey M.; Hjelm, Devon R.; Slakhutdinov, Ruslan; Allen, Elena; Bockholt, Henry J.; Long, Jeffrey D.; Johnson, Hans; Paulsen, Jane S.; Turner, Jessica A.; Calhoun, Vince D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08-20)
      Deep learning methods have recently made notable advances in the tasks of classification and representation learning. These tasks are important for brain imaging and neuroscience discovery, making the methods attractive ...
    • Early developmental, temperamental and educational problems in ‘substance use disorder’ patients with and without ADHD. Does ADHD make a difference? 

      Skutle, Arvid; Bu, Eli Torild Hellandsjø; Jellestad, Finn Konow; Oortmerssen, Katelijne Van Emmerik-van; Dom, Geert; Verspreet, Sofie; Carpentier, Pieter Jan; Ramos-Quiroga, Josep Antonio; Franck, Johan Petter; Konstenius, Maija; Kaye, Sharlene; Demetrovics, Zolt; Barta, Csaba; Fatséas, Mélina; Auriacombe, Marc; Johnson, Brian; Faraone, Stephen V.; Levin, Frances R.; Allsop, Steve; Carruthers, Susan; Schoevers, Robert A.; Koeter, Maarten W.J.; Van den Brink, Wim; Moggi, Franz; Møller, Merete; van de Glind, Geurt (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03-28)
      Introduction. The prevalence of ADHD among patients with substance use disorder (SUD) is substantial. This study addressed the following research questions: Are early developmental, temperamental and educational problems ...
    • The effects of alcohol intoxication on neuronal activation at different levels of cognitive load 

      Gundersen, Hilde; Grüner, Renate; Specht, Karsten; Hugdahl, Kenneth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-08-22)
      The aim of this study was to investigate how alcohol intoxication at two blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) affected neuronal activation during increasing levels of cognitive load. For this purpose we used functional ...
    • Gender-stereotyping and cognitive sex differences in mixed- and same-sex groups 

      Hirnstein, Marco; Andrews, Lisa Coloma; Hausmann, Markus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06-13)
      Sex differences in specific cognitive abilities are well documented, but the biological, psychological, and sociocultural interactions that may underlie these differences are largely unknown. We examined within a biopsychosocial ...
    • The human amygdala encodes value and space during decision making 

      Ousdal, Olga Therese; Specht, Karsten; Server, Andres; Andreassen, Ole Andreas; Dolan, Ray J.; Jensen, Jimmy Kristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11-01)
      Valuable stimuli are invariably localized in space. While our knowledge regarding the neural networks supporting value assignment and comparisons is considerable, we lack a basic understanding of how the human brain ...
    • Left temporal lobe structural and functional abnormality underlying auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia 

      Hugdahl, Kenneth; Løberg, Else-Marie; Nygård, Merethe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-05-01)
      In this article, we have reviewed recent findings from our laboratory, originally presented in Hugdahl et al. (2008) . These findings reveal that auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia should best be conceptualized as ...
    • Mental health services use predicted by number of mental health problems and gender in a total population study 

      Posserud, Maj-Britt Rocio; Lundervold, Astri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      We examined the relationship between service use and the number of problem areas as reported by parents and teachers on questionnaires among children aged 7–9 years old in the Bergen Child Study, a total population study ...
    • The neural correlates of sex differences in left-right confusion 

      Hjelmervik, Helene; Westerhausen, Rene; Hirnstein, Marco; Specht, Karsten; Hausmann, Markus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-03-14)
      Difficulties in left–right discrimination (LRD) are commonly experienced in everyday life situations. Here we investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms of LRD and the specific role of left angular gyrus. Given that previous ...
    • Neural plasticity in functional and anatomical MRI studies of children with Tourette syndrome 

      Eichele, Heike; Plessen, Kerstin J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      Background: Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder with childhood onset characterized by chronic motor and vocal tics. The typical clinical course of an attenuation of symptoms during adolescence in parallel ...
    • The role of the primary auditory cortex in the neural mechanism of auditory verbal hallucinations 

      Kompus, Kristiina; Falkenberg, Liv Eggset; Bless, Josef J; Johnsen, Erik; Kroken, Rune; Kråkvik, Bodil; Larøi, Frank; Løberg, Else-Marie; Vedul-Kjelsås, Einar; Westerhausen, René; Hugdahl, Kenneth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-04-24)
      Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are a subjective experience of “hearing voices” in the absence of corresponding physical stimulation in the environment. The most remarkable feature of AVHs is their perceptual quality, ...
    • Seeing shapes and hearing textures: Two neural categories of touch 

      Reiner, Miriam; Korsnes, Maria Stylianou; Hugdahl, Kenneth; Feldman, Marcus W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-04-07)
      Touching for shape recognition has been shown to activate occipital areas in addition to somatosensory areas. In this study we asked if this combination of somatosensory and other sensory processing areas also exist in ...
    • A synthesis of evidence on inhibitory control and auditory hallucinations based on the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework 

      Badcock, Johanna C.; Hugdahl, Kenneth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03-26)
      The National Institute of Mental Health initiative called the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) project aims to provide a new approach to understanding mental illness grounded in the fundamental domains of human behavior and ...