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PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Family-based Treatment of Depressed Adolescents: An Empirical Study with Norwegian Adolescents in Specialty Mental Health Care

Depression disorder affects 9-11% of Norwegian and Scandinavian adolescents. The prevalence is higher (61%) for those in mental health care. Depression and affective disorders in adolescence have negative consequences for the individual, family and the so ciety at large. There is an emerging body...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Rogaland

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Alcohol problems and depression: A 15-year longitudinal, nationwide study of mental health among Norwegian doctors.

Background: Concurrent depressive disorder and abuse of alcohol is common in the general population, and longitudinal studies that clarify this interplay over time and identify risk factors are highly required. Health care workers and in particular doctor s show high levels of depressive symptoms...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Effects of integrated and comprehensive treatment to persons with mental disorders and substance use disorders.

Patients with co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders are characterized by high suicide and treatment drop-out rates, and long-lasting interpersonal, work, school, health and legal problems. And because mental disorders and substance misuse inte ract and co-excists, it is important to p...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

SUSCEPTIBILITY GENES FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER: TRANSLATING FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS TO CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY.

Schizophrenia (SCZ) and bipolar (BP) disorder are severe mental disorders, which are both ranked among the leading causes of the total burden of diseases worldwide. Despite decades of research devoted to psychotic illnesses, the understanding of underlyin g biological mechanisms is inadequate and...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Vestland

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

The tsunami - a prospective study of long term health effects in Norwegian citizens exposed to the disaster

Background: NKVTS was tasked by the Directorate of Health and Social Affairs to carry out a research programme on disaster-related issues in the aftermath of the desember 2004 Tsunami. The research programme consists of 8 projects of which one encompasse s 2.900 Norwegian citizens exposed to the...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

An MRI investigation of brain development in young children with autism within the Autism Birth Cohort Study

Autism is a chronic, severe disorder of brain development and function, manifesting in the first years of life by impaired language, social reciprocity, and activity. In the current study, 200 children with autism and 100 control children will be examined with brain MRI at the age of 3-4 years. ...

Awarded: NOK 12,499

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Vestland

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Pathways to Adolescent Depression in Immigrant Youth: Longitudinal Studies

The main goal is to investigate the role of specific psychosocial profiles underlying depressive disorders in adolescence, and ethnic group variation in the distribution of adolescents among the identified profiles. The subgoals are 1)Examine 3 hypothesi zed and other unanticipated psychosocial ...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIMED-Klinisk medisin og folkehelse

The significance of therapist and patient characteristics in psychotherapy

Therapeutic alliance is considered to be one of the central aspects of the relationship between therapists and patients in psychotherapy, as well as therapy process and outcome. Therapeutic alliance includes three central aspects: the goals of therapy, ho w to proceed to reach the goals, and the ...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Coping and protection - A longitudinal study of children and their mothers

The principal objective is to attain knowledge about pathways to good social competence or mental health problems among children and their mothers. The longitudinal perspective implies studying health outcomes among children associated with age typical de velopment, and maternal health outcomes a...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

The matter of the first friendships

It has been quite exceptional to study day care centers as contexts for toddler's first friendships. It has been equal unusual to consider resilience and protective factors that provide support and adaptation for at-risk children. The potential for preven tion surely lies in increasing our knowle...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Risk and protective factors for psychiatric disorders and symptoms among preschoolers: A prospective community study

1.Young children have psychiatric disorders and they endure. The rate of psychiatric disorders in early childhood is between 9% and 21%, which is comparable with rates at other ages. Moreover, there is a strong continuity of disorders and symptoms from ye arly childhood into later childhood and a...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Suicide among children in Norway

Suicide among children below 16 years of age occurs infrequently, but in Norway this problem has been growing. Suicide ideations and threats from children are more often registered in clinical settings. There is a lack of knowledge concerning this issue i n the international community. There is a...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2012

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

The causes and implementation of resilience

R.BUP's tasks are research and education to promote mental health in children and adolescents, with catchment area Eastern and Southern Norway. Activities focusing on resiliemce and coping have run for years. Examples are studies as: exploration of stress and resilience processess; longitudinal ...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Characterization of early trauma/dysmorphogenesis and adult neurodysfunction in schizophrenia – relation to adult brain morphology

Schizophrenia is considered to be a neurodevelopmental disease. Genetic factors as well as early-life environmental influences are implicated in its etiology. The aim of the doctoral project is to characterize patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder with regard to history of obstetric comp...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2010

Location: Oslo

FOLKEHELSE-Folkehelse

Predictors of changes in depressive symptoms, suicidality, and eating problems in adolescence and early adulthood

Results are in conflict whether there has been an increase in adolescent internalizing problems (e.g. eating problems, depression, and suicidality) in the Western World during recent decades. Using identical procedures in 1992 and 2002, we ask whether sel f-reports of depressive symptoms, disorde...

Awarded: NOK 0.69 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

The BDNF hypothesis of depression: a new framework for understanding depression and the actions of antidepressant drugs

Despite decades of research, the biological basis of major depression remains to be fully elucidated. Although antidepressants, such as serotonin reuptake inhibitors, rapidly increase serotonin levels in the extracellular space, the therapeutic effects of the drug are delayed by several weeks...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Drug abuse and psychosis: prevalence, clinical consequences and brain function.

Background: Patients with psychotic disorders are at a greater risk of having a drug abuse problem. Drug abuse is shown to worsen prognosis in psychotic disorders. Cannabis is, after alcohol, expected to be the most prevalent drug of abuse in our populati on. The biological association between ps...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

YFF-Yngre, fremragende forskere

Identification of phenotypes and genetic susceptibility in severe mental disorders

Severe mental disorders (schizophrenia and bipolar/manic-depressive disorder) are major causes of disability worldwide, and rank as some of the most costly disorders to afflict humans. The etiology still remains elusive, but there is now overwhelming evid ence that genetic factors play a prominen...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2010

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Kriseintervensjon etter akutte traumer - en randomisert studie

Hvert år forekommer et stort antall skader og ulykker i Norge. Skader og ulykker er et stort folkehelseproblem som medfører ikke bare fysiske følgetilstander, men er også en viktig kilde til psykisk lidelse. Psykologisk intervensjon etter et traume antas å redusere psykisk lidelse og forhindre u...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Oslo

RUSMIDDEL-Rusmiddelforskning

Barn som har vært eksponert for rusmidler i fosterlivet: reguleringsforstyrrelser og samspillvansker i første leveår

Prosjektet innebærer en prospektiv, longitudinell undersøkelse av barn eksponert for rusmidler i fosterlivet, med spesielt fokus på reguleringsvansker og samspillsproblemer i første leveår. For å undersøke spesifisiteten av samspillsvansker hos barn ekspo nert for rusmidler i fosterlivet, blir de...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2011

Location: Oslo

MENTAL-Mental helse

Stimulering av beh.forskning ved Psyk.inst. UiO og Reg.senter for Barne og Ungd. psyk ø/s for gjesteforsker Stephen Shirk Univ. of Denver

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Awarded: NOK 47,999

Project Period: 2004-2004

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Spilleavhengighet

Spilleavhengighet er et økende problem i samfunnet, og rammer både enkeltpersoner og familier. Prosjektet ønsker å foreta en epidemiologisk studie vedrørende utbredelsen av spilleavhengighet blant elever i videregående skoler i Hordaland. I studien vil en også identifisere faktorer som kjønn, bo...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Vestland

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

PsyGutNet - Forskningsnettverk om psykobiologiske aspekter av gastrointestinale lidelser

Magetarmlidelser representerer en stor belastning for det norske helsevesenet til tross for betydelig fremgang de siste årene. I tillegg til de rene patofysiologiske årsakene til disse lidelsene, finnes det god dokumentasjon for at psykologiske faktorer e r viktig både med hensyn til insidens og ...

Awarded: NOK 0.61 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2010

Location: Vestland

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Prognose, incidens og prediksjon ved depresjon og suicidalitet hos tenåringer: En oppfølging av prosjektet - Ungdom og psykisk helse.

Bakgrunn. Epidemiologiska studier har visat att 0,4-8% av tonåringar har depressiv störning eller dystymi. Den kumulativa prevalensen for depressiv störning är 15-20%. Förekomsten ökar särskilt hos flickor under puberteten. Komorbiditeten är hög oc h vanligast är ängeststörning, missbruk a...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Prognostisk informasjon ved livstruende og kroniske sykdommer - betydning for mestring, distres og håbløshed. En prospektiv undersøkelse.

Information til patienter om prognose ved kroniske og livstruende sygdomme berører væsentlige medisinsk-etiske problemstillinger, samtidig som sådan information har eksistentielle og muligvis helsemæssige konsekvenser for de berørte patienter. Til trods f or at læger særdeles hyppigt er stillet o...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Oslo

OST-Øst-Europa-programmene

The Barents Project in Psychiatry

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Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Mental helse under svangerskap og barsel: En kohort studie.

Bakgrunn. En fødsel er vanligvis en stor og gledelig begivenhet, men det er også en opplevelse som kan representere betydelig fysisk og psykisk belastning. Betydelige fysiske forandringer med endrede hormonelle forhold utvikler seg over svært kort tid. Vi vet at antallet innleggelser for ...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Samhandling mellom foreldre og barn med adferdsvansker.

Prosjekt om standardiserte metoder for å studere familieinteraksjon. Foreldretreningsprogrammet PMT-O, et behandlingsprogram for familier hvor barn har store atferdsvansker, er under implementering i Norge. PMT-O skal evalueres vitenskapelig av Atferdssen teret ved Universitetet i Oslo. 100 famil...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Sosial angstlidelse og selektiv mutisme hos barn og unge - relasjon til utviklingsforstyrrelser, familiær angst og traumatisk stress.

Sosial angstlidelse (SAD) er en hyppig tilstand (5-15% hos unge), karakterisert ved en gjennomgripende og markert redsel i sosiale situasjoner. Selektiv mutisme (SM) er karakterisert ved persisterende taushet i visse situasjoner og forståes som et uttrykk for sterk grad av sosial angst. Antatt p...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Oslo

PSYKISK-Psykisk helse

Tildig intervensjon ved psykose.

Det er gjentatte ganger vist at det går lang tid fra første psykotiske symptomer til oppstart av adekvat behandling ved schizofreni og tilsvarende psykoser. Det er også vist at det er en assosiasjon mellom lengre varighet av ubehandlet psykose og dårliger e behandlingsutfall/korttidsprognose. Pr...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Oslo

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