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Kristine B Walhovd

Professor, Head of Centre

Interests

My current research is targeted at understanding the mechanisms underlying different types of change in brain and cognition, and whether and how we ourselves can initiate, enhance or slow them. Throughout life, our mental capacities and brains are under continuous alteration: Some changes are part of positive development, others are debilitating.

Together with colleagues, I am trying to uncover markers and mechanisms underlying changes in brain and cognitive behavior throughout the lifespan. In this effort, we’re studying persons ranging in age from 4 to 90 yrs. I am very interested in understanding normal cognition and brain-behavior relationships troughout the human lifespan, and I am also involved in patient studies, for instance on subjective and objective memory complaints, Alzheimer disease, and drug exposure in utero. Main research methods include, among others, experimental and standardized neuropsychological tests, MRI (mostly morphometry and DTI) and ERP (Event-Related-Potentials)

Background

  • Professor of cognitive neuropsychology and part time position (15 %) as a researcher at the Department of Neuropsychology, Ullevål University Hospital
  • 2007 → Professor in neuropsychology, Dept. Psychology, UiO
  • 2005 – 2007 Associate professor in neuropsychology, Dept Psychology, UiO
    • Scientific leader for the ERP lab, Dept Psychology, UiO
  • 2009 Guest researcher, Multimodal imaging lab, UCSD (3 mnth)
  • 2005 Guest researcher, Martinos Center, Harvard (3 mnth)
  • 2002 Guest researcher, Martinos Center, Harvard (3 mnth)
  • 2002 – 2005 Enrolled in the PhD program, Dept Psychology, UiO
  • 2001 → Clinical neuropsychology/research position at the Dept neuropsychology, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål
  • 2000 – 2001 Student reasearch fellow, Dept Psychology, UiO

Awards

  • 2020 Demensforskningspris 2020 går til Senter for livsløpsendringer i hjerne og kognisjon (LCBC) ved Anders Fjell og Kristine
  • 2015 UiO’s Research Prize shared with Anders Fjell
  • 2015 LCBC appointed status as one of 5 “World class” groups at UiO
  • 2012 Morgenbladet’s list of the top 10 young (< 40 years) Norwegian researchers
  • 2011 Elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
  • 2006 The Fridtjof Nansen Award for young investigators
  • 2006 His Majesty the King’s Gold Medal

Teaching

I teach within the fields of cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology, in addition to supervision of PhD candidate

Contact

E-mail: k.b.walhovd@psykologi.uio.no

Telephone: +47 228 45 130

Visiting address:
Harald Schjelderups hus
Forskningsveien
0373 Oslo

Postal address:
P.O. box 1094
Blindern
0317 Oslo

Project involvement

Early Biomedical Risks

Lifebrain

Aging Starts in the Womb

Biological Predictors for Memory

Select LCBC publications

25. January 2019/by Martine Herud

Parallel but independent reduction of emotional awareness and corpus callosum connectivity in older age

PLOS ONE; pdf
Skumlien, M., Sederevicius, D., Fjell, A.M., Walhovd, K.B. & Westerhausen, R. 
28. August 2018/by Hedda Ness

Maintained Frontal Activity Underlies High Memory Function Over 8 Years in Aging

Cerebral Cortex; pdf
Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Sneve M.H., Nyberg L. H., Mowinckel A. M., Sedervicius D., Walhovd, K.B. & Fjell, A.M.
24. August 2018/by Hedda Ness

The Lifespan Trajectory of the Encoding-Retrieval flip. A Multi-modal Examination of Medial Parietal Cortex Contributions to Episodic Memory

The Journal of Neuroscience; pdf
Amlien, I. K., Sneve, M., Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Walhovd, K. B. & Fjell, A. M.
4. May 2018/by Hedda Ness

Development of white matter microstructure in relation to verbal and visuospatial working memory – A longitudinal study

PLoS ONE; pdf
Krogsrud S. K., Fjell, A. M., Tamnes C. K., Grydeland, H., Due-Tønnesen, P., Bjørnerud, A., Sampaio-Baptista, C., Andersson, J., Johansen-Berg, H. & Walhovd, K. B.
 
21. March 2018/by Hedda Ness

The Temporal Dynamics of Brain Plasticity in Aging

Cerebral Cortex; 
Glasø de Lange, A., Bråthen, A. C., Rohani, D., Fjell, A. M. & Walhovd, K. W.

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