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Can Predict the Effect of Lithium In Bipolar Patients (27.11.2015)

By looking at brain cells of patient with bipolar disorder, it is possible to predict if lithium treatment will be effective. This finding were recently published in Nature.

New article: Body mass index influence interferon-beta treatment response in multiple sclerosis. (24.11.2015)

Silje Kvistad and co-authors associated with Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Centre for MS Research and The Norwegian Multiple Sclerosis Competence Centre have recently published an article on obseity and interferon-beta treatment in MS in Journal of Neuroimmunology.

International Epilepsy congress in Istanbul (17.11.2015)

Several scientists from Bergen Epilepsy Research Group (BERG) presented their research projects at the 31st International Epilepsy Congress in Istanbul.

Ethical judgement in research - new book pubslihed (12.11.2015)

How, and in what specific ways, can research institutions provide opportunities for their scientific employees to exercise well-qualified, ethical judgement in their research? Kristine Bærøe discusses this question in a recently published anthology on ethical judgment in research.

Reablement in community-dwelling older adults: A randomised controlled trial (08.11.2015)

In this first randomised controlled trial on reablement conducted in Europe, reablement was shown to be a superior intervention than usual care.

George Ruhago successfully defended his PhD (06.11.2015)

Research group member George Ruhago successfully defended his PhD thesis "Economic evaluation and equity impact analysis of interventions or maternal and child health in Tanzania" on Friday 6yh of November.

Cerebral palsy runs in families (03.11.2015)

People born into families in which someone already has cerebral palsy are themselves at elevated risk, depending on their degree of relatedness.

From left: Herlof Nilssen, Managing Director at Helse Vest, James Lorens, Helga Salvesen og Baard-Christian Schem, Senior Advisor at Helse Vest.

Helse Vest awards to CCBIO researchers (30.10.2015)

Helse Vest's Research Prize was this year awarded to the Gynaecologic Research Group led by CCBIO PI Helga B. Salvesen. The Innovation Award went to James Lorens at BerGenBio and UiB, also CCBIO PI.

How to scale-up neuropsychiatric interventions in Ethiopia (28.10.2015)

A contextualized cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) of neuropsychiatric interventions in Ethiopia could advise authorities to prioritize between treatments. Epilepsy treatment is most cost-effective, while treatment for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder avert fewer DALYs.

Illustration photo: Pasient med smerter i hoften

How to deal with hip osteoarthritis? (28.10.2015)

Research and course collaboration between Physiotherapy Research Group at IGS and Orthopedic Department at Haukeland University Hospital (HUH).

Parental age and risk of cleft lip (28.10.2015)

When both parents are old, the risk of cleft palate in the offspring is increased, but not if only one parent is older than 31 years (mothers) or 34 years (fathers).

IGS partner in new national research school (27.10.2015)

The research school for health and care in the municipal health services will be coordinated by the University of Oslo, and IGS will be a collaborating partner represented by Berit Rokne and Eva Gjengedal.

Association between maternal preeclampsia and congenital heart defect in the offspring. (27.10.2015)

The prevalence of severe congenital heart defects is increased among newborns of mothers who experienced preeclampsia during pregnancy, especially if the preeclampsia was early onset.

the Norwegian flag and a doctor as a background, a scale with money and medicine in the front.

Health Priorities of the Future (27.10.2015)

Perhaps we should issue a time frame on the public health bureaucracy, says CCBIO Director Lars A. Akslen, when considering the time it takes new drugs to be accepted to Norway.

What are the health effects of migration? (27.10.2015)

Esperanza Diaz was the principal investigator of a research team that evaluated the impact of factors such as length of stay, immigrant group and other sociodemographic variables on immigrant health.

Researchers K1, K2 and Helse-Bergen are hereby invited to present their work to fellow researchers and the general audience

IGSIN course participants at Mount Ulriken

The First Course in the MiND H2020 Research Training Network Completed (26.10.2015)

From September 28-October 9th 2015, KGJN hosted the first research training course in the new H2020-funded project “MiND" on ADHD and autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

2nd Brigding Nordic Imaging symposium (23.10.2015)

A network seminar series to promote collaboration between Nordic countries in biological and medical imaging. 2nd seminar in Gotheburg, Sweden, 14th-15th of April 2016.

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