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June 20, 2022 10:42 AM
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.
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May 31, 2022 3:58 PM
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.
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May 24, 2022 12:13 AM
The theory, known as the ‘great replacement,’ has gained currency on popular television programs and in the halls of Congress.
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May 20, 2022 8:00 AM
Researcher Daniel Quintana receives UiO Young Researcher Award for his research on the hormone oxytocin and its importance for physical and mental health.
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May 18, 2022 10:47 AM
The Nordic Branding project has now finalized its results in a report to the UiO:Nordic.
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Mar. 29, 2022 10:32 AM
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.
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Mar. 17, 2022 4:22 PM
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.
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Mar. 8, 2022 8:53 PM
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.
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Feb. 28, 2022 8:38 PM
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Feb. 24, 2022 10:05 AM
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.
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Jan. 31, 2022 2:23 PM
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Jan. 31, 2022 2:07 PM
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.
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Jan. 14, 2022 2:40 PM
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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Jan. 13, 2022 7:20 AM
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or Master’s student in life sciences and interested in career opportunities beyond academia? Sign up for Young Talents on 15 February!
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Nov. 11, 2021 11:11 PM
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.
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Nov. 10, 2021 12:15 PM
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Nov. 10, 2021 12:00 PM
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.
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Oct. 21, 2021 2:30 PM
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Sep. 15, 2021 5:57 AM
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Sep. 3, 2021 10:57 AM
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.
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Aug. 31, 2021 10:46 AM
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.
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Aug. 27, 2021 10:30 AM
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.
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June 28, 2021 8:04 AM
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Mar. 19, 2021 1:55 PM
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Mar. 18, 2021 9:00 AM
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.