About us

LCBC’s research goal is to understand brain and cognition. How does brain and cognition change throughout the entire lifespan, and how we can optimise them. We aim to explain, predict, and promote cognitive function from birth to old age.

A key investigation is the great variation in brain and cognition within and across individuals. We believe this is best studied using longitudinal studies. These are studies that follow people over many years. We also look at how brain and cognition is affected by risk factors and transitions into clinical conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease.

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Research areas

Our research areas span the field of psychology, medicine, pharmacology and more. The common feature of our research is understanding how cognition and the brain change throughout the lifespan.

Om oss

LCBC’s forskningsmål er å forstå hvordan hjerne og kognisjon forandrer seg gjennom livsløpet vårt og hvordan vi kan optimalisere den. Vårt mål er å forklare, predikere, og promotere kognitive funksjoner fra vi blir født og gjennom resten av vårt livssløp.

Det er en enorm variasjon over hvordan hjernen vår er og kognisjon mellom alle individer. Vi mener at den beste måten å undersøke denne variasjonen er gjennom longitudinelle studier, dette er studier hvor man følger mennesker over flere år. Vi ser også på hvordan hjernen og kognisjon påvirkes av risk faktorer og fasen over til kliniske tilstander, blant annet Alzheimer sykdom.

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Education and income show heterogeneous relationships to lifespan brain and cognitive differences across European and US cohorts

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Individual variations in ‘brain age’ relate to early-life factors more than to longitudinal brain change.

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Reliability and sensitivity of two whole-brain segmentation approaches included in FreeSurfer – ASEG and SAMSEG.

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Educational attainment does not influence brain aging.

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Reduced Hippocampal-Striatal Interactions during Formation of Durable Episodic Memories in Aging.

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Cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression relate differentially to longitudinal structural brain development across adolescence.

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Development of attention networks from childhood to young adulthood: A study of performance, intraindividual variability and cortical thickness

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Relationship between cerebrospinal fluid neurodegeneration biomarkers and temporal brain atrophy in cognitively healthy older adults.

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No Association Between Loneliness, Episodic Memory and Hippocampal Volume Change in Young and Healthy Older Adults: A Longitudinal European Multicenter Study

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Projects recruiting participants

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Mother-Child Prospective Study

In this research project we investigate the brain's appearance, activity and function and how these factors change in children as they age. We also attempt to map various factors that may affect brain development, such as nutrition, physical activity and genetics. We do this through studying many healthy children, or what we call a representative sample, over a longer period of time.

Age Consolidate

Our research is funded by the following organisations / partners

NFR
UiO

IMAGE ATTRIBUTIONS: ‘Secured Millions …’ photo: Paal Audestad; ‘We study brains’ photo: Terje Heiestad; MAGNETOM Skyra: siemens.com