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Elvevåg, Brita

Department of Clinical Medicine
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Cognitive 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

  • Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Diaz-Asper, Catherine; Elvevåg, Brita. The reality of doing things with (thousands of) words in applied research and clinical settings: A commentary on Clarke et al. (2020). Cortex 2021. ISSN 0010-9452.s doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.08.024.

  • Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Fedechko, Taylor L.; Elvevåg, Brita; Cohen, Alex S.. Chapter 28 - Tracking Language in Real Time in Psychosis. Academic Press 2020 ISBN 9780128150122.s 663 - 685.s doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-815012-2.00028-6.

  • Chandler, Chelsea; Foltz, Peter W.; Cohen, Alex S.; Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Cheng, Jian; Bernstein, Jared C.; Rosenfeld, Elizabeth P.; Elvevåg, Brita. Machine learning for ambulatory applications of neuropsychological testing. Intelligence-Based Medicine 2020; Volum 1-2. ISSN 2666-5212.s doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmed.2020.100006.

  • Cohen, Alex S.; Cox, Christopher R.; Masucci, Michael D.; Le, Thanh P.; Cowan, Tovah; Coghill, Lyndon M.; Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Elvevåg, Brita. Digital phenotyping using multimodal data. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports 2020; Volum 7. ISSN 2196-2979.s 212 - 220.s doi: 10.1007/s40473-020-00215-4.

  • Cheng, Sophia; Cohen, Alex S.; Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Foltz, Peter W.; Cheng, Jian; Bernstein, Jared; Rosenfeld, Elizabeth; Elvevåg, Brita. A Dynamic Method, Analysis, and Model of Short-Term Memory for Serial Order with Clinical Applications. Psychiatry Research 2020; Volum 294. ISSN 0165-1781.s doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113494.

  • Chandler, Chelsea; Foltz, Peter W.; Elvevåg, Brita. Using machine learning in psychiatry: The need to establish a framework that nurtures trustworthiness. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2020; Volum 46 (1). ISSN 0586-7614.s 11 - 14.s doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbz105.

  • Cohen, Alex S.; Schwartz, Elana; Le, Thanh; Cowan, Tovah; Cox, Christopher; Tucker, Raymond; Foltz, Peter; Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Elvevåg, Brita. Validating digital phenotyping technologies for clinical use: the critical importance of “resolution”. World Psychiatry 2020; Volum 19 (1). ISSN 1723-8617.s 114 - 115.s doi: 10.1002/wps.20703.

  • Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Chandler, Chelsea; Foltz, Peter W.; Cohen, Alex S.; Cheng, Jian; Bernstein, Jared C.; Rosenfeld, Elizabeth P.; Elvevåg, Brita. Applying speech technologies to assess verbal memory in patients with serious mental illness. npj Digital Medicine 2020; Volum 3:33.s 1 - 8.s doi: 10.1038/s41746-020-0241-7.

  • Le, Thanh P.; Cowan, Tovah; Schwartz, Elana K.; Elvevåg, Brita; Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Foltz, Peter W.; Barkus, Emma; Cohen, Alex S.. The importance of loneliness in psychotic-like symptoms: Data from three studies. Psychiatry Research 2019; Volum 282:112625. ISSN 0165-1781.s 1 - 9.s doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.112625.

  • Cohen, Alex S.; Fedechko, Taylor L.; Schwartz, Elana K.; Le, Thanh P.; Foltz, Peter W.; Bernstein, Jared; Cheng, Jian; Rosenfeld, Elizabeth; Elvevåg, Brita. Psychiatric Risk Assessment from the Clinician?s Perspective: Lessons for the Future. Community mental health journal 2019; Volum 55 (7). ISSN 0010-3853.s 1165 - 1172.s doi: 10.1007/s10597-019-00411-x.

  • Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Foltz, Peter W.; Cohen, Alex S.; Johansen, Håvard D.; Sigurdsen, Randi; Fugeli, Pål; Bergsager, Dagfinn; Cheng, Jian; Bernstein, Jared; Rosenfeld, Elizabeth; Elvevåg, Brita. Moving psychological assessment out of the controlled laboratory setting: Practical challenges. Psychological Assessment 2019; Volum 31 (3). ISSN 1040-3590.s 292 - 303.s doi: 10.1037/pas0000647.

  • Cohen, Alex S.; Fedechko, Taylor L.; Schwartz, Elana K.; Le, Thanh P.; Foltz, Peter W.; Bernstein, Jared; Cheng, Jian; Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Elvevåg, Brita. Ambulatory vocal acoustics, temporal dynamics, and serious mental illness. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 2019; Volum 128 (2). ISSN 0021-843X.s 97 - 105.s doi: 10.1037/abn0000397.

  • Cheng, Jian; Bernstein, Jared; Rosenfeld, Elizabeth; Foltz, Peter W.; Cohen, Alex S.; Holmlund, Terje; Elvevåg, Brita. Modeling self-reported and observed affect from speech. Interspeech 2018; Volum 2018. ISSN 2308-457X.s 3653 - 3657.s doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-2222.

  • Longenecker, Julia; Hui, Christy; Chen, Eric YH; Elvevåg, Brita. Concepts of ‘self’ in delusion resolution. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition 2016; Volum 3. ISSN 2215-0013.s 8 - 10.s doi: 10.1016/j.scog.2015.10.007.

  • Elvevåg, Brita; Cohen, Alex S.; Wolters, Maria K.; Whalley, Heather C.; Gountouna, Viktoria-Eleni; Kuznetsova, Ksenia A.; Watson, Andrew R.; Nicodemus, Kristin K.. An examination of the language construct in NIMH's research domain criteria: Time for reconceptualization!. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 2016; Volum 171 (6). ISSN 1552-4841.s 904 - 919.s doi: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32438.

  • Rosenstein, Mark; Foltz, Peter; Vaskinn, Anja; Elvevåg, Brita. Practical issues in developing semantic frameworks for the analysis of verbal fluency data: A Norwegian data case study. 2015 ISBN 9781510804364.s 124 - 133.s doi: 10.3115/v1/w15-1215.

  • Verheyen, Steven; Voorspoels, Wouter; Longenecker, Julia; Weinberger, Daniel R.; Elvevåg, Brita; Storms, Gert. Invalid assumptions in clustering analyses of category fluency data: Reply to Sung, Gordon and Schretlen (2015).. Cortex 2015. ISSN 0010-9452.s doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.012.

  • Tagamets, Malle A; Cortes, Carlos R; Griego, Jacqueline A; Elvevåg, Brita. Neural correlates of the relationship between discourse coherence and sensory monitoring in schizophrenia. (Fulltekst: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2013.06.011 Cortex 2014; Volum 55 (1). ISSN 0010-9452.s 77 - 87.s doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.06.011.

  • Cohen, Alex S.; Elvevåg, Brita. Automated computerized analysis of speech in psychiatric disorders. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 2014; Volum 27 (3). ISSN 0951-7367.s 203 - 209.s doi: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000056.

  • Cohen, Alex S; Mitchell, Kyle R; Elvevåg, Brita. What do we really know about blunted vocal affect and alogia? A meta-analysis of objective assessments. Schizophrenia Research 2014; Volum 159 (2-3). ISSN 0920-9964.s 533 - 538.s doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2014.09.013.

  • Rosenstein, Mark; Diaz-Asper, Catherine; Foltz, Peter; Elvevåg, Brita. A computational language approach to modeling prose recall in schizophrenia. Cortex 2014; Volum 55 (1). ISSN 0010-9452.s 148 - 166.s doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.021.

  • Nicodemus, Kristin K.; Elvevåg, Brita; Foltz, Peter; Rosenstein, Mark; Diaz-Asper, Catherine; Weinberger, Daniel R.. Category fluency, latent semantic analysis and schizophrenia: A candidate gene approach. Cortex 2014; Volum 55 (1). ISSN 0010-9452.s 182 - 191.s doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.12.004.

  • Voorspoels, Wouter; Storms, Gert; Longenecker, Julia; Verheyen, Steven; Weinberger, Daniel R.; Elvevåg, Brita. Deriving semantic structure from category fluency: Clustering techniques and their pitfalls. Cortex 2014; Volum 55 (1). ISSN 0010-9452.s 130 - 147.s doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.09.006.

  • Valle-Lisboa, Juan C.; Pomi, Andrés; Cabana, Álvaro; Elvevåg, Brita; Mizraji, Eduardo. A modular approach to language production: Models and facts. Cortex 2014; Volum 55 (1). ISSN 0010-9452.s 61 - 76.s doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.02.005.

  • Holshausen, Katherine; Harvey, Philip D.; Elvevåg, Brita; Foltz, Peter; Bowie, Christopher R.. Latent semantic variables are associated with formal thought disorder and adaptive behavior in older inpatients with schizophrenia. Cortex 2014; Volum 55 (1). ISSN 0010-9452.s 88 - 96.s doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.02.006.

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • Alm, Torbjørn; Elvevåg, Brita. Ergotism in Norway. Part 2: 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.

  • 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 (1-3). ISSN 0920-9964.s 205 - 211.s doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2011.07.009.

  • Elvevåg, Brita. Will artificial intelligence make psychiatry better?. (https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/925721#vp_2) 2020.

  • Elvevåg, Brita. How Will AI Change Psychiatry?. (Fulltekst: https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2020.1b4 2020.

  • Cowan, T.; Le, T.P.; Elvevåg, Brita; Foltz, Peter W.; Tucker, R.P.; Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Cohen, Alex S.. Comparing static and dynamic predictors of risk for hostility in serious mental illness: Preliminary findings. Schizophrenia Research 2019; Volum 204. ISSN 0920-9964.s 432 - 433.s doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.08.030.

  • Elvevåg, Brita. Can Your Therapist Be Replaced by an App?. (https://www.healthline.com/health-news/can-your-therapist-be-replaced-by-an-app) 2019.

  • Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Foltz, Peter W.; Cohen, Alex S.; Cheng, Jian; Bernstein, Jared; Rosenfeld, Elizabeth; Elvevåg, Brita. MOVING SPEECH TECHNOLOGY METHODS OUT OF THE LABORATORY: PRACTICAL CHALLENGES AND CLINICAL TRANSLATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR PSYCHIATRY. 2019 Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society (Omtale: https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbz022.099) 2019-04-12 - 2019.

  • Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Cheng, Jian; Foltz, Peter W.; Cohen, Alex S.; Elvevåg, Brita. Updating verbal fluency analysis for the 21st century: Applications for psychiatry. Psychiatry Research 2019; Volum 273. ISSN 0165-1781.s 767 - 769.s doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.02.014.

  • Le, T.P.; Elvevåg, Brita; Foltz, Peter W.; Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Schwartz, E.K.; Cowan, T.; Cohen, Alex S.. Aggressive urges in schizotypy: Preliminary data from an ambulatory study. Schizophrenia Research 2018; Volum 201. ISSN 0920-9964.s 424 - 425.s doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.05.045.

  • Cohen, Alex S; Le, Thanh P.; Fedechko, Taylor L.; Elvevåg, Brita. Can RDoC help find order in thought disorder?. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2017; Volum 43 (3). ISSN 0586-7614.s 503 - 508.s doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbx030.

  • Elvevåg, Brita; Foltz, Peter; Rosenstein, Mark; Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon; De Deyne, Simon; Mizraji, Eduardo; Cohen, Alex. Thoughts About Disordered Thinking: Measuring and Quantifying the Laws of Order and Disorder. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2017; Volum 43 (3). ISSN 0586-7614.s 509 - 513.s doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbx040.

  • Foltz, Peter W.; Rosenstein, Mark; Elvevåg, Brita. Detecting clinically significant events through automated language analysis: Quo imus?. Nature NPJ Schizophrenia 2016; Volum 2. ISSN 2334-265X.s doi: 10.1038/npjschz.2015.54.

  • De Deyne, Simon; Elvevåg, Brita; Hui, Christlylai; Poon, Venessa Wing Yyan; Chen, Eric Y.H.. Rich semantic networks applied to schizophrenia: A new framework. Schizophrenia Research 2016; Volum 176 (2-3). ISSN 0920-9964.s 454 - 455.s doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2016.05.016.

  • Rosenstein, Mark; Foltz, Peter; DeLisi, Lynn E; Elvevåg, Brita. Language as a biomarker in those at high-risk for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research 2015; Volum 165 (2-3). ISSN 0920-9964.s 249 - 250.s doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2015.04.023.

  • Garrard, Peter; Elvevåg, Brita. Language, computers and cognitive neuroscience. Cortex 2014; Volum 55 (1). ISSN 0010-9452.s 1 - 4.s doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.02.012.

  • Elvevåg, Brita. Automated analysis of communication in mental health: Untapped potential?. International Psychogeriatrics 2011; Volum 23. ISSN 1041-6102.s S14 - S15.

  • Elvevåg, Brita. Will artificial intelligence make psychiatry better?. (https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/925721#vp_2) 2020.

  • Elvevåg, Brita. How Will AI Change Psychiatry?. (Fulltekst: https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2020.1b4 2020.

  • Cowan, T.; Le, T.P.; Elvevåg, Brita; Foltz, Peter W.; Tucker, R.P.; Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Cohen, Alex S.. Comparing static and dynamic predictors of risk for hostility in serious mental illness: Preliminary findings. Schizophrenia Research 2019; Volum 204. ISSN 0920-9964.s 432 - 433.s doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.08.030.

  • Elvevåg, Brita. Can Your Therapist Be Replaced by an App?. (https://www.healthline.com/health-news/can-your-therapist-be-replaced-by-an-app) 2019.

  • Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Foltz, Peter W.; Cohen, Alex S.; Cheng, Jian; Bernstein, Jared; Rosenfeld, Elizabeth; Elvevåg, Brita. MOVING SPEECH TECHNOLOGY METHODS OUT OF THE LABORATORY: PRACTICAL CHALLENGES AND CLINICAL TRANSLATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR PSYCHIATRY. 2019 Congress of the Schizophrenia International Research Society (Omtale: https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbz022.099) 2019-04-12 - 2019.

  • Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Cheng, Jian; Foltz, Peter W.; Cohen, Alex S.; Elvevåg, Brita. Updating verbal fluency analysis for the 21st century: Applications for psychiatry. Psychiatry Research 2019; Volum 273. ISSN 0165-1781.s 767 - 769.s doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2019.02.014.

  • Le, T.P.; Elvevåg, Brita; Foltz, Peter W.; Holmlund, Terje Bektesevic; Schwartz, E.K.; Cowan, T.; Cohen, Alex S.. Aggressive urges in schizotypy: Preliminary data from an ambulatory study. Schizophrenia Research 2018; Volum 201. ISSN 0920-9964.s 424 - 425.s doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.05.045.

  • Cohen, Alex S; Le, Thanh P.; Fedechko, Taylor L.; Elvevåg, Brita. Can RDoC help find order in thought disorder?. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2017; Volum 43 (3). ISSN 0586-7614.s 503 - 508.s doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbx030.

  • Elvevåg, Brita; Foltz, Peter; Rosenstein, Mark; Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon; De Deyne, Simon; Mizraji, Eduardo; Cohen, Alex. Thoughts About Disordered Thinking: Measuring and Quantifying the Laws of Order and Disorder. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2017; Volum 43 (3). ISSN 0586-7614.s 509 - 513.s doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbx040.

  • Foltz, Peter W.; Rosenstein, Mark; Elvevåg, Brita. Detecting clinically significant events through automated language analysis: Quo imus?. Nature NPJ Schizophrenia 2016; Volum 2. ISSN 2334-265X.s doi: 10.1038/npjschz.2015.54.

  • De Deyne, Simon; Elvevåg, Brita; Hui, Christlylai; Poon, Venessa Wing Yyan; Chen, Eric Y.H.. Rich semantic networks applied to schizophrenia: A new framework. Schizophrenia Research 2016; Volum 176 (2-3). ISSN 0920-9964.s 454 - 455.s doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2016.05.016.

  • Rosenstein, Mark; Foltz, Peter; DeLisi, Lynn E; Elvevåg, Brita. Language as a biomarker in those at high-risk for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research 2015; Volum 165 (2-3). ISSN 0920-9964.s 249 - 250.s doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2015.04.023.

  • Garrard, Peter; Elvevåg, Brita. Language, computers and cognitive neuroscience. Cortex 2014; Volum 55 (1). ISSN 0010-9452.s 1 - 4.s doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.02.012.

  • Elvevåg, Brita. Automated analysis of communication in mental health: Untapped potential?. International Psychogeriatrics 2011; Volum 23. ISSN 1041-6102.s S14 - S15.

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