Department of Biological and Medical Psychology: Nye registreringer
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Vitamin B12 and folic acid improve gross motor and problem-solving skills in young North Indian children: A randomized placebo-controlled trial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-06-22)Objectives Deficiencies of vitamin B12 and folate are associated with delayed development and neurological manifestations. The objective of this study was to measure the effect of daily supplementation of vitamin B12 and/or ... -
Deep learning for neuroimaging: A validation study
(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 ... -
A synthesis of evidence on inhibitory control and auditory hallucinations based on the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework
(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 ... -
Nondirective meditation activates brain areas associated with retrieval of memories and emotional processing
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-02-26)Nondirective meditation techniques are practiced with a relaxed focus of attention that permits spontaneously occurring thoughts, images, sensations, memories, and emotions to emerge and pass freely, without any expectation ... -
Laterality across languages: Results from a global dichotic listening study using a smartphone application
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-01-14)Left-hemispheric language dominance has been suggested by observations in patients with brain damages as early as the 19th century, and has since been confirmed by modern behavioural and brain imaging techniques. Nevertheless, ... -
Språk og stamming - En undersøkelse av språklig kompetanse hos fire gutter i alderen 5-8 år som stammer
(Master thesis, 2015-06-03)Developmental stuttering is a speech fluency disorder, beginning in early childhood. The final cause of stuttering is unknown, but it is likely that stuttering is multi-factorial and involves a complex relationship between ... -
Auditory verbal hallucinations in persons with and without a need for care
(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 ... -
Seeing shapes and hearing textures: Two neural categories of touch
(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 ... -
The effects of alcohol intoxication on neuronal activation at different levels of cognitive load
(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 ... -
ASSERT - The Autism Symptom SElf-ReporT for adolescents and adults: Bifactor analysis and validation in a large adolescent population
(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 ... -
Children with dyslexia show cortical hyperactivation in response to increasing literacy processing demands
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-12-22)This fMRI study aimed to examine how differences in literacy processing demands may affect cortical activation patterns in 11- to 12-year-old children with dyslexia as compared to children with typical reading skills. ... -
Early and Later Life Stress Alter Brain Activity and Sleep in Rats
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-07-26)Exposure to early life stress may profoundly influence the developing brain in lasting ways. Neuropsychiatric disorders associated with early life adversity may involve neural changes reflected in EEG power as a measure ... -
The early life condition: Importance for sleep, circadian rhythmicity, behaviour and response to later life challenges
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-12-09)Early life environment has a vast impact on development and adult functioning. Optimal brain development depends not only on genetic programming but also on specific external stimuli, where mother-infant relationships play ... -
Self-supervised, mobile-application based cognitive training of auditory attention: A behavioral and fMRI evaluation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-07)Emerging evidence of the validity of collecting data in natural settings using smartphone applications has opened new possibilities for psychological assessment, treatment, and research. In this study we explored the ... -
A follow-up study of first episode major depressive disorder. Impairment in inhibition and semantic fluency—potential predictors for relapse?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-09-13)The present study investigated the Executive Functions (EF) of inhibition, mental flexibility and phonemic and semantic fluency in a 1-year follow-up assessment of patients diagnosed with first episode Major Depressive ... -
The human amygdala encodes value and space during decision making
(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 ... -
Executive Functioning in recurrent - and first episode Major Depressive Disorder: Longitudinal studies
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-02-26)Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is in the acute phase of illness often associated with neuropsychological impairment in a range of cognitive domains such as attention, memory, psychomotor speed and Executive Functioning ... -
Autistic features in school age children: IQ and gender effects in a population-based cohort
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03)Level and characteristics of intellectual function (IQ) have been associated with symptom presentation in children with autism spectrum disorder. The present study examined associations between IQ and autistic features in ... -
Does it Matter How We Pose the Question “How is Your Sense of Smell?”
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-12)There is a rather large, and unfortunate, discrepancy in the outcome between self-reported and standardized assessment of olfactory function. Questions for self-evaluation are commonly used that provide no information of ... -
Alcohol and drug use among adolescents: and the co-occurrence of mental health problems. Ung@hordaland, a population-based study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09-22)Objectives The use of alcohol and drugs is prevalent among adolescents, but too little is known about the association between debut of alcohol and drug use, problematic use and concurrent mental health. The aim of the study ...