Blar i Department of Biological and Medical Psychology på tittel
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Room for everyone in working life? 10% of the employees – 82% of the sickness leave
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2002)Aims: The aims of this project were to study the distribution of sickness leave in a population of Norwegian power company workers, and to characterise those with most sickness leave. Method: A survey was done in 13 power ... -
Sammenheng mellom perseptuell vurdering av hypernasalitet og nasometerverdier hos barn med leppe-kjeve-ganespalte
(Master thesis, 2011-12-03)Excessive nasal resonance in speech (hypernasality) is a disorder which may have negative communicative and social consequences for the person who has this problem. Excessive nasal resonance is often associated with cleft ... -
Sammenheng mellom selvrapporterte og målte lese- og skriveferdigheter hos et utvalg av studenter og innsatte
(Master thesis, 2016-05-24)This master thesis is based on the project Reading and spelling skills among inmates in Norwegian prisons" (Jones, 2012), where the level of reading and spelling skills of the Norwegian inmates was assessed using questionnaires ... -
Sammenhengen mellom stamming og emosjoner - En litteraturstudie med et historisk perspektiv
(Master thesis, 2018-06-13)Background: Different psychological theoretical and therapeutic traditions have been developed through history, also used by speech language pathologists in clinical contexts (Flasher & Fogle, 2011). The purpose of ... -
Sammenhenger mellom opplevde og diagnostiserte lese- og skrivevansker blant kvinnelige innsatte i norske fengsler
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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 ... -
Self-compassion - Relationship with mindfulness, emotional stress symptoms and psychophysiological flexibility
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-12-19)How we relate to ourselves when facing negative emotions may impact on our psychological health. Drawn from Buddhist psychology, self-compassion involves treating oneself kindly in times of suffering and remembering that ... -
Self-Compassion and Its Association With Ruminative Tendencies and Vagally Mediated Heart Rate Variability in Recurrent Major Depression
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Background: Recurrent Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is one of the most disabling mental disorders in modern society. Prior research has shown that self-compassion protects against ruminative tendencies, a key feature of ... -
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 ... -
Sensory and Quasi-Sensory Experiences of the Deceased in Bereavement: An Interdisciplinary and Integrative Review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Bereaved people often report having sensory and quasi-sensory experiences of the deceased (SED), and there is an ongoing debate over whether SED are associated with pathology, such as grief complications. Research into ... -
Sex/gender differences in the brain are not trivial—A commentary on Eliot et al. (2021)
(Journal article, 2021)In this commentary to the comprehensive review by Eliot et al. (2021), we fully comply with rejecting the ‘sexual dimorphism’ concept in its extreme, binary form. However, we criticise the authors’ extreme position and ... -
SHC - et måleinstrument for subjektive helseplager
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Shift in Food Intake and Changes in Metabolic Regulation and Gene Expression during Simulated Night-Shift Work: A Rat Model
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Night-shift work is linked to a shift in food intake toward the normal sleeping period, and to metabolic disturbance. We applied a rat model of night-shift work to assess the immediate effects of such a shift in food intake ... -
Shift work, circadian rhythms and the brain : Identifying biological mechanisms underlying the metabolic and cognitive consequences of work timing, using a rat model
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-04-29)Shift work, and night shift work in particular, is associated with negative health effects. In the short term, night shift work is associated with increased risk of errors and accidents. In the long term, night shift work ... -
Simultaneous Measurement of the BOLD Effect and Metabolic Changes in Response to Visual Stimulation Using the MEGA-PRESS Sequence at 3 T
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) effect that provides the contrast in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been demonstrated to affect the linewidth of spectral peaks as measured with magnetic resonance ... -
Skriftlige engelskferdigheter hos dyslektiske elever. Sammenlignende studie av elever i Norge og i Ungarn
(Master thesis, 2009-05-25)This study is addressing differences in literacy skills in English, with a specific focus on Norwegian and Hungarian dyslexics. Study is conducted from the perspective of characteristic features in dyslexics and typical ... -
Social functioning and mental health in children: the influence of chronic illness and intellectual function
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-01-13)Chronic illness, and in particular neurodevelopmental disorders, are associated with an increased risk of mental health problems and social difficulties in children. Across the neurodevelopmental disorders, the presence ... -
Social inequalities in health: biological, cognitive and learning theory perspectives
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2002)Increasing social inequalities in health have been ascribed to unequal distribution of resources, and to exposure factors. We propose that these differences also may be explained by principles from cognitive stress theory. ... -
Språk og dysleksi - en oppfølgingsstudie av barn kartlagt i barnehagen med RI-5, TRAS og CCC-2 - en studie av ulike utviklingsprofiler
(Master thesis, 2016-05-24)Dyslexia is seen as a multifactorial impairment that can be analyzed at a biological, cognitive, symptomatic and environmental level. Consequently it should be possible to detect early risk factors for dyslexia. The aim ... -
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 ...