In NorwegianCognitive neuropsychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, and the cognitive, neural and genetic basis of language in healthy individuals and those with clinical conditions that affect the brain, especially psychosis and dementia
Research methods: Cognitive science, especially computational linguistics, as well as neuropsychology, neuroimaging, cognitive genetics and telemedicine
Forthcoming Special Issue of Cortex on “Language, computers and cognitive neuroscience" [Guest Editors: Brita Elvevåg and Peter Garrard] http://www.journals.elsevier.com/cortex/forthcoming-special-issues/
Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry on“Genes, Cognition and Neuropsychiatry” [Guest Editors: Brita Elvevåg and Daniel Weinberger] http://www.psypress.com/books/details/9781848727182
Telephone screening of the elderly via a general practitioner’s practice - An investigation of the feasibility of using telephone-based screening via a GP’s practice in order to identify people with mild cognitive impairment and who thus have a higher risk of developing dementia. http://www.telemed.no/telephone-screening-of-the-elderly.5037340-247951.html
Publications in CRIStin
- Alm, Torbjørn; Elvevåg, Brita. Ergotism in Norway, part I: The symptoms and their interpretation from the late Iron Age to the seventeenth century.. History of Psychiatry 2013; Volum 24 (1). ISSN 0957-154X.s 15 - 33.s doi: 10.1177/0957154X11433960.
- Alm, Torbjørn; Elvevåg, Brita. Ergotism in Norway, part II: The symptoms and their interpretation from the eighteenth century onwards.. History of Psychiatry 2013; Volum 24 (2). ISSN 0957-154X.s 131 - 147.s doi: 10.1177/0957154X11433961.
- Baixeries, Jaume; Elvevåg, Brita; Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon. The Evolution of the Exponent of Zipf's Law in Language Ontogeny. PLoS ONE 2013; Volum 8 (3). ISSN 1932-6203.s e53227 - .s doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053227.
- Vaskinn, Anja; Wilsgård, Ingun; Holm, Arne; Wootton, Richard; Elvevåg, Brita. A feasibility study of a telephone-based screening service for mild cognitive impairment and its uptake by elderly people. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 2013; Volum 19 (1). ISSN 1357-633X.s 5 - 10.s doi: 10.1177/1357633X12473904.
- Altamura, Mario; Elvevåg, Brita; Campi, Gaetano; De Salvia, Michela; Marasco, Daniele; Ricci, Alessandro; Bellomo, Antonello. Toward scale-free like behavior under increasing cognitive load. Complexity 2012; Volum 18 (1). ISSN 1076-2787.s 38 - 43.s doi: 10.1002/cplx.21407.
- Elvevåg, Brita; Wynn, Rolf; Covington, Michael A.. Meaningful confusions and confusing meanings in communications in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research 2011; Volum 186. ISSN 0165-1781.s 461 - 464.s doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.08.015.
- Cabana, Álvaro; Valle-Lisboa, Juan C.; Elvevåg, Brita; Mizraji, Eduardo. Detecting order-disorder transitions in discourse: Implications for schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research 2011; Volum 131 (1-3). ISSN 0920-9964.s 157 - 164.s doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2011.04.026.
- Elvevåg, Brita; Helsen, Kim; De Hert, Marc; Sweers, Kim; Storms, Gert. Metaphor interpretation and use: a window into semantics in schizophrenia.. Schizophrenia Research 2011; Volum 133. ISSN 0920-9964.s 205 - 211.s doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2011.07.009.