A central aim of the Lifebrain consortium is to optimize the use of European brain imaging cohorts, by enabling their combined use in research, and to reveal consistency as well as heterogeneity of factors related to brain and cognition.
The Lifebrain findings provide support for some established associations, but also challenge some tenets of lifespan cognitive neuroscience.
UiO:Life Science established in 2021 a support scheme for interdisciplinary life science courses. Departments and faculties at the University of Oslo are eligible to apply. The scheme has an no deadline, applications can be submitted at any time.
The theory, known as the ‘great replacement,’ has gained currency on popular television programs and in the halls of Congress.
Researcher Daniel Quintana receives UiO Young Researcher Award for his research on the hormone oxytocin and its importance for physical and mental health.
The Nordic Branding project has now finalized its results in a report to the UiO:Nordic.
New research shows that oxytocin system dysfunction contributes to both mental disorders and cardiovascular and metabolic health. A researcher says that oxytocin has the potential to treat mental disorders and the associated risk of cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders.
Professor Eivind Ystrøm at the Department of Psychology has been awarded a prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council to investigate why one fifth of Norwegian children do not complete secondary education, and need one fifth need treatment for a mental disorder before they reach adulthood.
Researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB) have found that some people feeling lonely over time may have declining verbal memory. The study is part of the Lifebrain consortium led by the University of Oslo.
The prospect of experiencing symptoms of cognitive or mental decline was a key motivation to undertake lifestyle changes, even more so than having been diagnosed with a brain disorder – an important finding from the second public report of the Global Brain Health Survey.
Five new teams have been admitted to UiO´s innovation programme SPARK Norway. They will develop their ideas within health-related life sciences for the benefit of patients and society.
Call for applications for the three-day course on writing academic English is due midnight 16.01. The workshop is hosted by ReNEW, and takes place from 31th of March to 2nd of April in Stockholm.
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In brain scans of almost 1500 people throughout Europe, researchers of the Lifebrain consortium found that people with “older-looking” brains had both lower birth weight and genes for smaller brains, compared with those with normal ageing brains.
Both these factors are present early in life, indicating that your “brain age” is mostly related to early life influences and not so much on events that happen later in life.
Medication use during pregnancy, healthy aging, cancer, organoid technology, fibrosing diseases and cognitive function throughout life. These are societal challenges that will be examined by new interdisciplinary life science research groups at the University of Oslo.
In a study of more than 50.000 participants, researchers from the Lifebrain consortium found that although more education and higher income tended to be associated with larger brain volumes and better cognitive scores, these associations varied considerably between groups studied.
People want clear, evidence-based information about exactly which lifestyle changes can improve their brain health, according to a new report from the Lifebrain consortium at the University of Oslo.
Departments/faculties at UiO can apply UiO:Life Science for support to develop interdisciplinary courses within life sciences. For 2021 the deadlines to apply were 1 April and 15 October.
How do readers develop “critical feeling”? Professor Rolf Reber joins the Literature, Cognition and Emotions Podcast to talk about how we understand literary works from a cognitive perspective.