Browsing Department of Biological and Medical Psychology by Title
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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 ... -
Early detection and intervention in psychosis: A long-term perspective.
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Early developmental, temperamental and educational problems in ‘substance use disorder’ patients with and without ADHD. Does ADHD make a difference?
(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 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 ... -
The Effect of Distribution of Exposure: An Experimental Study Within the Statistical Learning Paradigm
(Master thesis, 2017-06-14)The present study was designed to investigate whether distribution of exposure might facilitate the learning of noun marking of gender subcategories of an unfamiliar, natural language (Russian). Forty graduate students (20 ... -
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 ... -
The effects of background noise on asymmetrical speech perception
(Doctoral thesis, 2009-09-24)The present thesis aimed at examining the effects of environmental background noise on asymmetrical speech perception. To assess asymmetrical speech perception, the Bergen Dichotic Listening (DL) task with consonant-vowel ... -
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 ... -
Effects of Facial Symmetry and Gaze Direction on Perception of Social Attributes: A Study in Experimental Art History
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This article explores the possibility of testing hypotheses about art production in the past by collecting data in the present. We call this enterprise “experimental art history”. Why did medieval artists prefer to paint ... -
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 ... -
Electrophysiological and Hemodynamic Correlates of Expectancy in Target Processing
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-11-20)Identifying patterns of recurrent events is central to human perception, cognition and behavior. By extracting patterns from the environment, individuals can make efficient predictions about future events. By and large, ... -
Electrophysiological Correlates of Performance Monitoring in Children with Tourette Syndrome. A developmental perspective
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-08-25)Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder with childhood onset, characterized by chronic motor and vocal tics. Typically, tic symptoms attenuate during adolescence in parallel with the emerging self-regulatory ... -
Emotional and behavioural function in children with language problems- a longitudinal, population- based study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This longitudinal, population-based study investigated associations between language problems (LP) and emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD). Parents and teachers gave information about LP and EBD when the children ... -
En norsk oversettelse og kulturell tilpasning av testverktøyet Test of Pragmatic Language, second edition
(Master thesis, 2019-06-19)Hensikten med denne studien har vært å lage en norsk tilpasning av det engelsk-amerikanske testverktøyet Test of Pragmatic Language - second edition (TOPL-2), og undersøke hvordan denne tilpasningen fungerer i et utvalg ... -
En studie av studenters lese- og skriveferdigheter
(Master thesis, 2017-06-14)Recent research has shown that the relationship between self-reported reading and writing skills and scores on actual measured skills was lower among a group of inmates than in groups of adults and students. The purpose ... -
The Epistemic Status of Processing Fluency as Source for Judgments of Truth
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-09-07)This article combines findings from cognitive psychology on the role of processing fluency in truth judgments with epistemological theory on justification of belief. We first review evidence that repeated exposure to a ... -
Evaluering av behandlingstilbud for pasienter med unilateral recurrensparese ved Haukeland universitetssykehus
(Master thesis, 2018-06-13)The voice is part of human identity and also an important tool for communication. Voice disorders can therefore cause physical, social and emotional limitations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the treatment ... -
Executive Functioning in adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): From basic mechanisms to functional outcome
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-09-18)Background Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is characterized by age inappropriate levels of hyperactivity, inattention and impulsivity. A large proportion of children with ADHD have persisting symptoms into ... -
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 ... -
Feasibility and Acceptability of Using a Mobile Phone App for Characterizing Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Adolescents With Early-Onset Psychosis: Exploratory Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-14)Background: Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) are the most frequent symptom in early-onset psychosis (EOP) and a risk factor for increased suicide attempts in adolescents. Increased knowledge of AVH characteristics can ...