Academic Interests
• What factors influence the long-term outcomes for individuals with developmental disorders and/or severe mental illnesses?
• The consequences of cognitive impairment on everyday functioning and work participation in individuals with developmental disorders/mental illnesses.
• Treatment for cognitive impairment in individuals with developmental disorders/mental illnesses.
Teaching
• PSYC 3300 Psychopathology
• PSYC 4315 Assessment of mental disorders in adults
• PSYC 4305 Clinical neuropsychology
• PSYC 5315 Assessment and treatment of children and adolescents
• PSYC 6513 Clinical neuropsychology - assessment and intervention
• PSYC 6516 Understanding psychosis and evidence-based treatment
• PSYC 6310 Practicum (Psychosis practicum)
Background
Education:
• 2002 Specialist in clinical neuropsychology
• 1999 PhD in clinical psychology, Department of Psychology, UiO (University of Oslo)
• 1992 Cand Psychol, Department of Psychology, UiO
Employment history:
2016-present Professor of clinical psychology, Department of Psychology, UiO
2011-present Part-time research advisor at Innlandet Hospital
2015-2016 Associate Professor of clinical psychology, Department of Psychology, UiO
2012-2015 Professor II in neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, UiO
2011-2012 Associate Professor II in neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, UiO
2002-2015 Clinical neuropsychologist (40% Southeastern Norway Regional Health Authority)
2008-2011 Senior researcher at Innlandet Hospital
2004-2008 Postdoctoral fellow, Southeastern Norway Regional Health Authority
2000-2004 Psychologist at Innlandet Hospital, BUP Lillehammer
1998-2000 Educational Psychological Service Gudbrandsdalen (PPT)
1994-1998 PhD candidate, Research Council of Norway/UiO
Supervision of PhD-candidates
Completed:
- Main supervisor for Unni Bratlien on the project: ”Premorbid conditions and early development of severe mental illness."
- Main supervisor for Erik Winther Skogli on the project: “Emotional and cognitive development in children and adolescents with ADHD."
- Main supervisor for Per Normann Andersen on the project: ”Emotional and cognitive development in children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome.“
- Main supervisor for Kjell Tore Hovik on the project: ”Specific cognitive and emotional impairments in children with Tourette Syndrome."
- Co-supervisor Laura Wortinger on the project: “Brain fMRI in adolescent Chronic Fatigue Syndrome."
- Main supervisor for Ulrika Håkansson on the project: “Keeping Mind in Mind: Mentalizing and Executive Functioning in Substance-Abusing Infant Mothers: Effect on Dyadic Relationship and Infant Outcome.”
- Main supervisor for Ingvild Haugen on the project: “Cognitive remediation of executive dysfunction – Goal Management Training for patients with schizophrenia or high risk for schizophrenia.”
- Co-supervisor for Anette Farmen on the project: “Effect of epilepsy and anti-epileptic drugs in pregnancy: cognition, neurodevelopmental symptoms and obstetric outcome in offspring – a prospective cohort study.”
- Co-supervisor for Ingrid Svendsen on the project: “Anomalous Self-Experience in First Episode Psychosis – A Six-Year Follow-Up Study.”
- Co-supervisor for Tonje Torske on the project: “Social and executive difficulties in children with development disorders- clinical implications” Part of the BUPgen study.”
- Co-supervisor for Maria Pedersen on the project: “Chronic Fatigue following Acute Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in Adolescents."
- Co-supervisor for Thea Steen Skogheim on the project: “The effects of maternal toxicants on neurodevelopmental outcomes in the child.”
- Co-supervisor for Stian Orm on the project: "The Lillehammer Neurodevelopmental Follow-up study (LINEUP): 10-year follow-up of children and adolescents with ADHD."
- Ongoing:
- Co-supervisor for Sissel Gravåkmo on the project: “Importance of intelligence and executive function for social developmental in children mental retardation with and without comorbid autism spectrum disorder.”
- Co-supervisor for Ingrid Nesdal Fossum on the project: "The Lillehammer Neurodevelopmental Follow-up study (LINEUP): 10-year follow-up of children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
- Co-supervisor Caroline Mohn-Haugen: "Prenatal health, obstetric complications, and neurocognition in young individuals at risk for schizophrenia – a population-based study."
- Co-supervisor Eldri Kjørren: "A 10-year follow-up of Co-occurring Symptom Clusters Across Neurodevelopmental Disorders (COSCAN)."
- Main supervisor for Agnete Dyresen: "Executive control training for adolescents with ADHD: A randomized controlled effectiveness trial (ADHD-effect)."
- Main supervisor for Anne Myge Gulsrud: "Executive control training for adolescents with ADHD: A randomized controlled effectiveness trial (ADHD-effect)."
- Participant: "The role of attention in communication." (PI Franziska Köder, Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, UiO).
- Participant: "Life with autism: Quality of life, daily functioning and compensatory strategies from childhood to young adulthood." (PI Erik W Skogli, Innlandet Hospital).
Project leader for major projects
Completed:
- “Cognitive deficits in adolescents with schizophrenia or ADHD: a 13-year follow-up study.” (Completed 2008)
- ”Premorbid conditions and early development of severe mental illness.”(Completed 2013)
- “Emotional and cognitive development in children and adolescents with ADHD."(Completed 2014)
- “Emotional and cognitive development in children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome.”(Completed 2015)
- ”Specific cognitive and emotional impairments in children with Tourette Syndrome.”(Completed 2016)
Ongoing:
- “Clinical, neurocognitive and functional outcome in Early Onset Schizophrenia and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A 20-Year Follow-up Study.” (2015-2029)
- “Cognitive rehabilitation of executive dysfunction – Goal Management Training in patients with schizophrenia or high risk for schizophrenia.” (2017-)
- "Executive control training for adolescents with ADHD: A randomized controlled effectiveness trial (ADHD-effect)." (2023-)
Honoraria
- Awarded «Researcher of the Month» in February 2010 by South-Eastern Regional Health Authority
- Received the award for Best Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo in 2019 and 2020
- Elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2019
Appointments
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Member of the reference group of "The Regional Expert Group on autism, ADHD, Tourettes Syndrom, and Narcolepsy South-Eastern Regional Health Authority."
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Member of the executive board of "The National and Regional (South-East Regional Health Authority) group for medical and health research in severe mental disorders."
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Member of the reference group of "ADHD Norway."