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Else-Marie Løberg

Professor
  • E-mailelse.marie.loeberg@uib.no
  • Visitor Address
    Alrek helseklynge, Årstadveien 17
    5009 Bergen
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7807
    5020 Bergen
Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2024). Effect of integrated hepatitis C virus treatment on psychological distress in people with substance use disorders. Scientific Reports.
  • Show author(s) (2023). The efficacy of integrated hepatitis C virus treatment in relieving fatigue in people who inject drugs: a randomized controlled trial. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy.
  • Show author(s) (2023). How do young adults experience and understand the process of developing a first episode of psychosis? A qualitative exploration. Psychosis. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Does drug use affect the efficacy of amisulpride, aripiprazole and olanzapine in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders? Results from a pragmatic, randomised study. General Hospital Psychiatry. 185-193.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Clinical insight among persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders treated with amisulpride, aripiprazole or olanzapine: a semi-randomised trial. BMC Psychiatry. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and their relation to diagnosed ADHD, sociodemographic characteristics, and substance use among patients receiving opioid agonist therapy: a Norwegian cohort study. BMC Psychiatry.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Antidepressive Effectiveness of Amisulpride, Aripiprazole, and Olanzapine in Patients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Secondary Outcome Analysis of a Pragmatic, Randomized Trial (BeSt InTro). Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 246-258.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Prevalence and correlates of suicide attempts in high-risk populations: a cross-sectional study among patients receiving opioid agonist therapy in Norway. BMC Psychiatry. 8 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Neural Activation in the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Precedes Conscious Experience of Being in or out of a Transient Hallucinatory State. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 1-10.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Impact of liver fibrosis and clinical characteristics on dose-adjusted serum methadone concentrations. Journal of Addictive Diseases. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Impact of childhood trauma on antipsychotic effectiveness in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A prospective, pragmatic, semi-randomized trial. Schizophrenia Research. 49-59.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Association between C-reactive protein levels and antipsychotic treatment during 12 months follow-up period after acute psychosis. Schizophrenia Research. 174-183.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Akathisia and atypical antipsychotics. Relation to suicidality, agitation and depression in a clinical trial. Acta Neuropsychiatrica. 282-288.
  • Show author(s) (2021). ‘Not at all what I had expected’: Discontinuing treatment with extended-release naltrexone (XR-NTX): A qualitative study. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 1-11.
  • Show author(s) (2021). White matter microstructural differences between hallucinating and non-hallucinating schizophrenia spectrum patients. Diagnostics (Basel). 1-14.
  • Show author(s) (2021). The association between cytokines and psychomotor speed in a spectrum of psychotic disorders: A longitudinal study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health (BBI - Health). 100392.
  • Show author(s) (2021). The Influence of Substance Use on Side Effects of Olanzapine, Quetiapine, Risperidone, and Ziprasidone in Psychosis. Substance Use & Misuse. 1880-1891.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Substance use and symptoms of mental health disorders: a prospective cohort of patients with severe substance use disorders in Norway. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Subjective symptoms and serum methadone concentrations: what should guide dose adjustments in methadone maintenance treatment? A naturalistic cohort study from Norway. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. 1-8.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Sex differences in antipsychotic efficacy and side effects in schizophrenia spectrum disorder: results from the BeSt InTro study. Nature NPJ Schizophrenia. 1-7.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Negative valence of hallucinatory voices as predictor of cortical glutamatergic metabolite levels in schizophrenia patients. Brain and Behavior.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Integrated treatment of hepatitis C virus infection among people who inject drugs: A multicenter randomized controlled trial (INTRO-HCV). PLoS Medicine. 17 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Illicit substances detected through high-resolution MS analysis in urine samples are associated with greater symptom burden in patients with psychosis. Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Glutamate- and GABA-Modulated Connectivity in Auditory Hallucinations—A Combined Resting State fMRI and MR Spectroscopy Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 1-10.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Differential Effectiveness of Atypical Antipsychotics on Hallucinations: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 389-396.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Cognitive change and antipsychotic medications: Results from a pragmatic rater-blind RCT. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition. 1-8.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Changes in substance use during outpatient treatment for substance use disorders: a prospective Norwegian cohort study from 2016 to 2020. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. 1-9.
  • Show author(s) (2020). The association between lithium use and neurocognitive performance in patients with bipolar disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. 1743-1749.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Impact of clinical and sociodemographic factors on fatigue among patients with substance use disorder: a cohort study from Norway for the period 2016–2020. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Health-related quality of life of long-term patients receiving opioid agonist therapy: a nested prospective cohort study in Norway. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. 1-12.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Hallucinating schizophrenia patients have longer left arcuate fasciculus fiber tracks: a DTI tractography study. Psychiatry Research : Neuroimaging. 1-7.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Dynamic functional connectivity patterns in schizophrenia and the relationship with hallucinations. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 1-9.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Does childhood trauma influence cognitive functioning in schizophrenia? The association of childhood trauma and cognition in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Schizophrenia Research: Cognition. 1-8.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Different response patterns in hallucinations and delusions to antipsychotic treatment. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. 497-504.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Brain age prediction reveals aberrant brain white matter in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: A multisample diffusion tensor imaging study. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 1095-1103.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Amisulpride, aripiprazole, and olanzapine in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (BeSt InTro): a pragmatic, rater-blind, semi-randomised trial. The Lancet Psychiatry. 945-954.
  • Show author(s) (2019). The influence of substance use on the effectiveness of antipsychotic medication: a prospective, pragmatic study. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. 281-287.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Psychosocial characteristics differentiate non-distressing and distressing voices in 10,346 adolescents. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 1353-1363.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Predictors of treatment satisfaction in antipsychotic-naive and previously medicated patients with acute-phase psychosis. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. 349-356.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Peer involvement and cross-sector efforts in establishing integrated treatment of hepatitis C virus infection for people with substance use disorders: experiences from Norway. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. 1-7.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Intra-Regional Glu-GABA vs Inter-Regional Glu-Glu Imbalance: A 1H-MRS Study of the Neurochemistry of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Integrated treatment of hepatitis C virus infection among people who inject drugs: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (INTRO-HCV). BMC Infectious Diseases. 1-9.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Cognitive profile in ultra high risk for psychosis and schizophrenia: A comparison using coordinated norms. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 1-11.
  • Show author(s) (2019). "Needing different things from different people" - a qualitative exploration of recovery in firstepisode psychosis. Social Work in Mental Health. 75-95.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Trajectories of depressive symptoms in the acute phase of psychosis: Implications for treatment. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 219-228.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Childhood trauma in schizophrenia spectrum disorders as compared to substance abuse disorders. Psychiatry Research. 481-487.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Associations between C-reactive protein levels and cognition during the first 6 months after acute psychosis. Acta Neuropsychiatrica. 1-10.
  • Show author(s) (2017). The positive link between executive function and lifetime cannabis use in schizophrenia is not explained by current levels of superior social cognition. Psychiatry Research. 92-98.
  • Show author(s) (2017). The Beliefs about Voices Questionnaire - Revised: A factor structure from 450 participants. Psychiatry Research. 95-103.
  • Show author(s) (2016). The serum level of C-reactive protein (CRP) is associated with cognitive performance in acute phase psychosis. BMC Psychiatry.
  • Show author(s) (2016). The course of neurocognitive changes in acute psychosis: Relation to symptomatic improvement. PLOS ONE. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Reseksjon for oesophaguscancer - komplikasjoner og overlevelse. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 809-813.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Premorbid cannabis use is associated with more symptoms and poorer functioning in schizophrenia spectrum disorder. Psychological Medicine. 3127-3136.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Patient satisfaction after acute admission for psychosis. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. 321-328.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Influence of different second generation antipsychotics on the QTC interval: A pragmatic study. World Journal of Psychiatry (WJP). 442-448.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Childhood trauma in schizophrenia spectrum disorder as compared to other mental health disorders. Psychosis. 48-56.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Childhood trauma in schizophrenia spectrum disorder as compared to other mental health Disorders. Psychosis.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Cannabis use is associated with 3 years earlier onset of schizophrenia spectrum disorder in a naturalistic, multi-site sample (N = 1119). Schizophrenia Research. 217-221.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Suicidality in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: The relationship to hallucinations and persecutory delusions. European psychiatry. 830-836.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Prevalence of auditory hallucinations in Norwegian adolescents: Results from a population-based study. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 391-396.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Glutamate as a mediating transmitter for auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia: A 1H MRS study. . Schizophrenia Research. 252-260.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Auditory verbal hallucinations reflect stable auditory attention deficits: A prospective study. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 81-94.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Impact of glutamate levels on neuronal response and cognitive abilities in schizophrenia. NeuroImage: Clinical. 576-584.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Failure of attention focus and cognitive control in schizophrenia patients with auditory verbal hallucinations: Evidence from dichotic listening. Schizophrenia Research. 301-309.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Do auditory verbal hallucinations in the acute phase of psychosis reflect stable cognitive impairments seen also in a more stabilised clinical phase? Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 81-94.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Cognitive changes in patients with acute phase psychosis - Effects of illicit drug use. Psychiatry Research. 818-824.
  • Show author(s) (2013). The role of the primary auditory cortex in the neural mechanism of auditory verbal hallucinations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). QTc prolongation in patients acutely admitted to hospital for psychosis and treated with second generation antipsychotics. Schizophrenia Research and Treatment.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Prospective and concurrent correlates of emotion perception in psychotic disorders: A naturalistic, longitudinal study of neurocognition, affective blunting and avolition. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 261-266.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Neurocognitive effectiveness of quetiapine, olanzapine, risperidone, and ziprasidone: A pragmatic, randomized trial. European psychiatry. 174-184.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Hallucinations in acutely admitted patients with psychosis, and effectiveness of risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, and ziprasidone: a pragmatic, randomized study. BMC Psychiatry.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Does changing from a first generation antipsychotic (perphenazin) to a second generation antipsychotic (risperidone) alter brain activation and motor activity? A case report. BMC Research Notes.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Dichotic listening, executive functions and grey matter cortical volume in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 443-450.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Psykose hos unge: Gjenkjenning og behandling. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. 555-559.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Patients with schizophrenia fail to up-regulate task-positive and down-regulate task-negative brain networks: An fMRI study using an ICA analysis approach. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia as aberrant lateralized speech perception: Evidence from dichotic listening. Schizophrenia Research. 59-64.
  • Show author(s) (2012). An fMRI study of neuronal activation in schizophrenia patients with and without previous cannabis use. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Amphetamine-induced psychosis - a separate diagnostic entity or primary psychosis triggered in the vulnerable? BMC Psychiatry.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Sexual dysfunction and hyperprolactinemia in male psychotic in-patients: a cross-sectional study. Advances in Urology. 686924.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Neurocognitive effectiveness of quetiapine, olanzapine, risperidone, and ziprasidone: a pragmatic, randomized trial. European psychiatry.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Cardiovascular risk in patients admitted for psychosis compared with findings from a population-based study. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. 192-202.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Anti-depressive effectiveness of olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone and ziprasidone: a pragmatic, randomized trial. BMC Psychiatry. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Fra biologisk forskning til klinisk praksis nytt om cannabis og schizofreni. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. 415-420.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Left temporal lobe structural and functional abnormality underlying auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 34-45.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Cannabis use and cognition in schizophrenia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Positive symptoms and duration of illness predict functional laterality and attention modulation in schizophrenia. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 322-331.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Dichotic listening in schizophrenic patients: effects of previous vs. ongoing auditory hallucinations. Psychiatry Research. 167-174.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Functional brain asymmetry and attentional modulation in young and stabilised schizophrenic patients: A dichotic listening study. Psychiatry Research.
  • Show author(s) (1999). Hemispheric asymmetry in schizophrenia: A «dual deficits» model. Biological Psychiatry.
Report
  • Show author(s) (2013). Utredning, behandling og oppfølging av personer med psykoselidelser. .
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2016). Childhood Trauma in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders as Compared to Other Mental Health Disorders.
  • Show author(s) (2016). An Investigation of the Potential Specificity of Childhood Maltreatment Trauma in Patients With Non-Affective Psychosis as Compared to Other Mental Health Disorders.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Positive symptoms, duration of illness and medication predict dichotic listening performance in 129 scizophrenic patients.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Left temporal lobe contribution to hallucinations in schizophrenia: A dichotic listening study.
  • Show author(s) (1997). De nye nordiske kriterier for klassifikasjon av SIDS Reevaluering av plutselig uventet spedbarnsdød i de nordiske land 1970-95.
Reader opinion piece
  • Show author(s) (2013). Ny retningslinje for utredning, behandling og oppfølging av personer med psykoselidelser :. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. 1218-1219.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Hjerneforskningen har klinisk nytteverdi. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. 696-697.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Den pragmatiske nytten av hjerneforskning :. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. 919-920.
Thesis at a second degree level
  • Show author(s) (2014). Childhood Maltreatment Trauma in Patients with Non-affective Psychosis as Compared to Patients Suffering from Other Mental Health Disorders.
Popular scientific article
  • Show author(s) (2011). Når cannabis gir psykose. Hubro. Magasin for Universitetet i Bergen.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Nyere nevrobiologisk tenkning: Implikasjoner for psykoterapi ved psykoser. Dialog.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Kan kunnskap om hjernen ved psykose ha klinisk nytteverdi? Bestpractice : dialog mellom leger.
Feature article
  • Show author(s) (2003). Hva vet vi om schizofreni? Bergens Tidende.
Letter to the editor
  • Show author(s) (2024). Reply to a Letter to the Editors From Dr de Souza and colleagues: "Unraveling the Optimal Treatment Approach for Depression in Schizophrenia Spectrum: A Quest for Clarity". Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 76-78.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (2016). Cannabis use in non-affective psychoses: Relationship to age at onset, cognitive functioning and social cognition.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Functional laterality and attention modulation in schizophrenia: Effects of clinical variables.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2012). Scizofreni og andre ikke-affektive psykoser. 20 pages.
Abstract
  • Show author(s) (2014). C-reactive protein levels are inversely associated with neurocognitive performance in acutely admitted patients with psychosis. Schizophrenia Research. 131.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Cognitive changes in non-affective psychosis the first 4-6 weeks after admission to a psychiatric acute ward: effects of substance use. Schizophrenia Research.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Neurocognitive functions recover from acute phase to three month-follow up in patients with non-affective psychotic disorders. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Clinical differences in acute-phase non-affective psychotic disorders with and without substance use. Schizophrenia Research.
  • Show author(s) (2011). CANNABIS USE AND BRAIN FUNCTIONING IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: AN FMRI STUDY. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 144-145.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Left temporal dysfunction, attention control deficit and auditory hallucinations: An fMRI study. Schizophrenia Research. 352.
  • Show author(s) (2010). CANNABIS USE AND COGNITION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: A LITERATURE REVIEW. Schizophrenia Research. 191-191.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Fra biologisk forskning til klinisk praksis: Nytt om cannabis og schizofreni. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Left hemisphere contribution to hallucinations in schizophrenia: A dichotic listening study. Schizophrenia Research. 27-27.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Positive symptoms, duration of illness and medication predict dichotic listening performance in 129 schizophrenic patients. Schizophrenia Research. 85-85.
Poster
  • Show author(s) (2018). Longitudinal relationship to cognitive function in acute phase of psychosis in a pragmatic, randomized trial.
  • Show author(s) (2017). The influence of 3 weeks of antipsychotic treatment on cell adhesion molecules in drug naive patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder .
  • Show author(s) (2017). The C-reactive protein in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: relationship to cognitive function in acute phase of psychosis with a longitudinal perspective in a pragmatic, randomized trial .
  • Show author(s) (2015). Aberrant association between glutamate and salience network functional connectivity in schizophrenia.
  • Show author(s) (2012). N-acetyl aspartate and glutamate levels of the anterior cingulate predict symptoms severity in schizophrenia: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) study.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Anterior cingulate biochemistry predicts symptom severity in schizophrenia: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) study.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Reduced striatal activation in schizophrenia to a cognitive control task – Dysfunction of dopaminergic regulation?
  • Show author(s) (2009). Significant relationship between left temporal lobe functional impairment and positive symptoms in schizophrenia.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Differential effects of four second-generation antipsychotics on cognition in acute psychosis.
Academic literature review
  • Show author(s) (2019). Integrated care of severe infectious diseases to people with substance use disorders; a systematic review. BMC Infectious Diseases. 1-15.
  • Show author(s) (2014). The cannabis pathway to non-affective psychosis may reflect less neurobiological vulnerability. Frontiers in Psychiatry.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Neurobiology of cognitive remediation therapy for schizophrenia: a systematic review. Frontiers in Psychiatry.
  • Show author(s) (2014). A critical review of pro-cognitive drug targets in psychosis: convergence on myelination and inflammation. Frontiers in Psychiatry.
Article in business/trade/industry journal
  • Show author(s) (2010). Cannabis og kognisjon ved schizofreni. BestPractice. 24-26.
Chapter
  • Show author(s) (2016). Psykoselidelser. 104-121. In:
    • Show author(s) (2016). Psykiske lidelser. Gyldendal Akademisk.

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