Department of Biological and Medical Psychology: Nye registreringer
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Idiographic analyses of motivation and related processes in participants with schizophrenia following a therapeutic intervention for negative symptoms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09)Background Motivational negative symptoms hinder quality of life and daily functioning of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. A recently developed intervention, Switch, has shown promising effects on negative ... -
Psychometric investigation of the French version of the Aberrant Salience Inventory (ASI): Differentiating patients with psychosis, patients with other psychiatric diagnoses and non-clinical participants
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10)During the prodromal phase of psychosis, individuals may experience an aberrant attribution of salience to irrelevant stimuli. The concept of aberrant salience has been hypothesized to be a central mechanism in the emergence ... -
Hallucinations in older adults: A practical review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)By 2050, it is estimated that 16% of people will be aged above 65 years, compared with 9% in 2019.1 Population aging is driving increased attention to the physical and mental health needs of older adults. Here, our focus ... -
tDCS as treatment in neuro-psychiatric disorders : The underlying neuronal mechanisms of tDCS treatment of auditory verbal hallucinations
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-04)Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a form of non-invasive brain stimulation which has gained widespread interest in neurology and psychology, both as a clinical and research tool. While it has been explored ... -
Cognitive change in psychosis
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-10-23)Background: Cognitive functioning is impaired in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, with cognitive symptoms a core part of schizophrenia. Cognitive impairment is associated with poorer daily life functioning and prognosis, ... -
Cognitive profile in ultra high risk for psychosis and schizophrenia: A comparison using coordinated norms
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10-01)Background: Cognitive impairment is not only a core aspect of schizophrenia but also commonly observed in help-seeking youth at ultra high risk for psychosis (UHR), with potential implications for prognosis and individualized ... -
Compensatory task-specific hypersensitivity in bilateral planum temporale and right superior temporal gyrus during auditory rhythm and omission processing in Parkinson's disease
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Persons with Parkinson’s disease have general timing deficits and have difficulties in rhythm discrimination tasks. The basal ganglia, a crucial part of Parkinson’s disease pathology, is believed to play an important role ... -
Longitudinal stability of the brain functional connectome is associated with episodic memory performance in aging
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The brain functional connectome forms a relatively stable and idiosyncratic backbone that can be used for identification or “fingerprinting” of individuals with a high level of accuracy. While previous cross‐sectional ... -
Individual Versus Small Group Treatment of Morphological Errors for Children With Developmental Language Disorder
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Purpose: This study examines the effects of enhanced conversational recast for treating morphological errors in preschoolers with developmental language disorder. The study assesses the effectiveness of this treatment in ... -
Physical exercise improves quality of life, depressive symptoms, and cognition across chronic brain disorders: a transdiagnostic systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)We performed a meta-analysis to synthesize evidence on the efficacy and safety of physical exercise as an add-on therapeutic intervention for quality of life (QoL), depressive symptoms and cognition across six chronic brain ... -
Potential applications of digital technology in assessment, treatment, and self-help for hallucinations
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The field of digital mental health is rapidly expanding with digital tools being used in assessment, intervention, and supporting self-help. The application of digital mental health to hallucinations is, however, at a very ... -
Paracingulate sulcus morphology and hallucinations in clinical and nonclinical groups
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Hallucinations are a characteristic symptom of psychotic mental health conditions that are also experienced by many individuals without a clinical diagnosis. Hallucinations in schizophrenia have been linked to differences ... -
Electroconvulsive therapy in bipolar depression - effectiveness and prognostic factors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Objective: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is used in patients with severe forms of bipolar depression. ECT is effective but not all patients respond. The aim of this study was to determine prognostic factors for response ... -
Logopediske intervensjoner for barn med pragmatiske språkvansker – en litteraturstudie
(Master thesis, 2020-07-02)Pragmatiske språkvansker i barndommen har blitt forbundet med både språklige, emosjonelle og sosiale problemer senere i livet. Det er derfor viktig at pragmatiske språkvansker oppdages tidlig, slik at tiltak kan ... -
Kvinnelige innsatte i norske fengsler og deres selvrapporterte motivasjon og hinder for å ta opplæring i fengsel
(Master thesis, 2020-07-02)Dette er en delrapportering fra en undersøkelse utført av Eikeland, Manger og Asbjørnsen (2016), og datamateriale er hentet fra deres undersøkelse. Formålet med denne studien var å undersøke kvinnelige innsatte sine ... -
Abnormal phasic activity in saliency network, motor areas, and basal ganglia in Parkinson's disease during rhythm perception
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Behavioral studies indicate that persons with Parkinson's disease have complexity dependent problems with the discrimination of auditory rhythms. Furthermore, neuroimaging studies show that rhythm processing activates many ... -
Does Introducing the Letters Faster Boost the Development of Children’s Letter Knowledge, Word Reading and Spelling in the First Year of School?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Learning the relationships between letters and sounds is a key component of early literacy development and a central aim during the first year of school. Introducing one new letter a week is the most common approach in ... -
Auditory hallucinations, top-down processing and language perception: a general population study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Background: Studies investigating the underlying mechanisms of hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia suggest that an imbalance in top-down expectations v. bottom-up processing underlies these errors in perception. ... -
Effects of different feeding frequencies on growth, cataract development and histopathology of lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Three duplicate groups of individually tagged lumpfish (mean initial weight: 22.3 ± 2.5 g) were fed either daily (7DW); four days per week (4DW) or three days per week (3DW) at a feeding rate of 2% body weight day−1 for a ... -
Intra-Regional Glu-GABA vs Inter-Regional Glu-Glu Imbalance: A 1H-MRS Study of the Neurochemistry of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10-18)Glutamate (Glu), gamma amino-butyric acid (GABA), and excitatory/inhibitory (E/I) imbalance have inconsistently been implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia. Elevated Glu levels in language regions have been suggested ...