Browsing Department of Biological and Medical Psychology by Title
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Pragmatisk kompetanse hos barn med leppe-, kjeve-, og/ eller ganespalte
(Master thesis, 2015-08-12)Denne tverrsnittstudiens hensikt er å kartlegge den pragmatiske kompetansen og de generelle kommunikasjonsferdighetene til barn med leppe-kjeve- og/ eller ganespalte. Barna (n = 17) i alderen 5:2-6:8 år ble kartlagt ved ... -
Predictors of real-time fMRI neurofeedback performance and improvement – A machine learning mega-analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Real-time fMRI neurofeedback is an increasingly popular neuroimaging technique that allows an individual to gain control over his/her own brain signals, which can lead to improvements in behavior in healthy participants ... -
Prevalence and Characteristics of Borderline Intellectual Functioning in a Cohort of Patients With Polysubstance Use Disorder
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-14)Objective: To determine the prevalence and associated demographic and clinical features of borderline intellectual functioning (BIF) among individuals with polysubstance use disorder (pSUD). Methods: We applied a ... -
Prevalence of auditory hallucinations in Norwegian adolescents: Results from a population-based study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05-12)Knowing the prevalence and characteristics of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) in adolescents is important for estimations of need for mental health care and assessment of psychosis risk. In this report we assess the ... -
Prevalence of auditory verbal hallucinations in a general population: A group comparison study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-10)The present study was specifically designed to investigate the prevalence of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH) in the general population, and sought to compare similarities and differences regarding socio-demographics, ... -
A primer on dichotic listening as a paradigm for the assessment of hemispheric asymmetry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-28)Dichotic listening is a well-established method to non-invasively assess hemispheric specialization for processing of speech and other auditory stimuli. However, almost six decades of research also have revealed a series ... -
Progressive modulation of resting‑state brain activity during neurofeedback of positive‑social emotion regulation networks
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Neurofeedback allows for the self-regulation of brain circuits implicated in specific maladaptive behaviors, leading to persistent changes in brain activity and connectivity. Positive-social emotion regulation neurofeedback ... -
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 ... -
Pust inn, stemme ut- kan strupens ventilfunksjon fangast opp i Voice Handicap Index?
(Master thesis, 2017-06-14)In order to produce voice, one needs breath, and breath is therefore a fundamental element within the field of voice. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether correlation exists between the aerodynamic parameter ... -
Quantifying auditory impressions in dreams in order to assess the relevance of dreaming as a model for psychosis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)A long noted hypothesis is that mechanisms of dreaming play a role in psychotic hallucinations. One challenge for this hypothesis is that while psychotic hallucinations primarily are auditory, dreaming most characteristically ... -
Quantitative and qualitative consequences of reduced pollen loads in a mixed-mating plant
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12)Greater pollination intensity can enhance maternal plant fitness by increasing seed set and seed quality as a result of more intense pollen competition or enhanced genetic sampling. We tested experimentally these effects ... -
The questionnaire for psychotic experiences: An examination of the validity and reliability
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-02-01)Psychotic experiences are prevalent across a wide variety of psychiatric, neurological, and medical conditions. Yet current assessments are often designed for one disorder, or are limited in their examination of phenomenological ... -
Randomized clinical trial of lumbar instrumented fusion and cognitive intervention and exercises in patients with chronic low back pain and disc degeneration
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2003)Study Design: Single blind randomized study. Objectives: To compare the effectiveness of lumbar instrumented fusion with cognitive intervention and exercises in patients with chronic low back pain and disc degeneration. ... -
Reading in Dyslexia across Literacy Development: A Longitudinal Study of Effective Connectivity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-01)Dyslexia is a literacy disorder affecting the efficient acquisition of reading and writing skills. The disorder is neurobiological in origin. Due to its developmental nature, longitudinal studies of dyslexia are of essence. ... -
Regularized linear discriminant analysis of EEG features in dementia patients
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-11-30)The present study explores if EEG spectral parameters can discriminate between healthy elderly controls (HC), Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD) using. We considered EEG data recorded during normal clinical ... -
The relationship between perceived social support and PTSD symptoms after exposure to physical assault: An 8 years longitudinal study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Consequences of nondomestic violence are known to be multifaceted with high rates of emotional and psychological problems in addition to physical injuries, and victims report many trauma related symptoms. This study explore ... -
Repetitive Religious Chanting Invokes Positive Emotional Schema to Counterbalance Fear: A Multi-Modal Functional and Structural MRI Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Introduction: During hard times, religious chanting/praying is widely practiced to cope with negative or stressful emotions. While the underlying neural mechanism has not been investigated to a sufficient extent. A previous ... -
Resting States Are Resting Traits – An fMRI Study of Sex Differences and Menstrual Cycle Effects in Resting State Cognitive Control Networks
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-07-24)To what degree resting state fMRI is stable or susceptible to internal mind states of the individual is currently an issue of debate. To address this issue, the present study focuses on sex differences and investigates ... -
Retningslinjer og vurderingskriterier for den artikkelbaserte ph.d-avhandlingen
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-01-07)PhD by publication is becoming increasingly more common both nationally as well as internationally. But what are the guidelines for such a thesis, and how is such a thesis assessed? This is what the present article focuses ... -
A review of multimodal hallucinations: categorization, assessment, theoretical perspectives, and clinical recommendations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Hallucinations can occur in different sensory modalities, both simultaneously and serially in time. They have typically been studied in clinical populations as phenomena occurring in a single sensory modality. Hallucinatory ...