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Overview

Brita Elvevåg is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. Their research spans multiple fields within psychology, focusing significantly on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, artificial intelligence, and clinical psychology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as neurobiology of language and bilingualism, mental health research, digital mental health interventions, dementia and cognitive impairment research, topic modeling, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and mental health via writing.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Psychiatry Research
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • npj Digital Medicine
  • Cortex

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Brita Elvevåg are:

  • "Validating digital phenotyping technologies for clinical use: the critical importance of "resolution"" (2020, World Psychiatry)
  • "Applying speech technologies to assess verbal memory in patients with serious mental illness" (2020, npj Digital Medicine)
  • "Natural Language Processing Markers for Psychosis and Other Psychiatric Disorders: Emerging Themes and Research Agenda From a Cross-Linguistic Workshop" (2023, Schizophrenia Bulletin)
  • "The mental health consequences on children of the war in Ukraine: A commentary" (2022, Psychiatry Research)
  • "Improving the Applicability of AI for Psychiatric Applications through Human-in-the-loop Methodologies" (2022, Schizophrenia Bulletin)

Brita Elvevåg has collaborated frequently with several researchers including:

  • Alex S. Cohen
  • Peter W. Foltz
  • Chelsea Chandler
  • Terje B. Holmlund
  • Catherine Diaz-Asper

Their research contributions emphasize the intersection of psychology and technology, with particular attention to psychiatric disorders, digital methodologies, and cognitive processes. The integration of artificial intelligence in psychiatric applications and the use of digital phenotyping are notable elements of their work.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia is the core of the disorder.

    Brita Elvevag;Terry E. Goldberg

  • Effect of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase val158met Genotype on Attentional Control

    Giuseppe Blasi;Venkata S. Mattay;Alessandro Bertolino;Alessandro Bertolino;Alessandro Bertolino;Brita Elvevåg

  • Quantifying incoherence in speech: An automated methodology and novel application to schizophrenia

    Brita Elvevåg;Peter W. Foltz;Daniel R. Weinberger;Terry E. Goldberg

  • Genes, cognition and brain through a COMT lens.

    Dwight Dickinson;Brita Elvevåg

  • Random Texts Do Not Exhibit the Real Zipf's Law-Like Rank Distribution

    Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho;Brita Elvevåg

  • Duration judgements in patients with schizophrenia.

    Brita Elvevåg;Teresa McCormack;Teresa McCormack;A. Gilbert;A. Gilbert;G. D. A. Brown;G. D. A. Brown

  • An automated method to analyze language use in patients with schizophrenia and their first-degree relatives

    Brita Elvevåg;Peter W. Foltz;Peter W. Foltz;Mark Rosenstein;Lynn E. DeLisi

  • Habitual prospective memory in schizophrenia

    Brita Elvevåg;Elizabeth A Maylor;Abigail L Gilbert

  • Automated computerized analysis of speech in psychiatric disorders.

    Alex S. Cohen;Brita Elvevåg

  • Category fluency, latent semantic analysis and schizophrenia: a candidate gene approach.

    Kristin K. Nicodemus;Brita Elvevåg;Peter W. Foltz;Mark Rosenstein

  • Dissociating the effects of Sternberg working memory demands in prefrontal cortex.

    Mario Altamura;Mario Altamura;Brita Elvevåg;Giuseppe Blasi;Giuseppe Blasi;Alessandro Bertolino;Alessandro Bertolino

  • BDNF Val66Met polymorphism significantly affects d′ in verbal recognition memory at short and long delays

    Terry E. Goldberg;Jennifer Iudicello;Christine Russo;Brita Elvevåg

  • Continuous Performance Test and Schizophrenia: A Test of Stimulus-Response Compatibility, Working Memory, Response Readiness, or None of the Above?

    Brita Elvevåg;Daniel R. Weinberger;Jesse C. Suter;Terry E. Goldberg

  • What do we really know about blunted vocal affect and alogia? A meta-analysis of objective assessments

    Alex S. Cohen;Kyle R. Mitchell;Brita Elvevåg

  • The use of cognitive context in schizophrenia: an investigation

    Brita Elvevåg;J. Duncan;P. J. McKenna

  • The Evolution of the exponent of Zipf's law in language ontogeny

    Jaume Baixeries;Brita Elvevåg;Brita Elvevåg;Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

  • Cognitive Factor Structure and Invariance in People With Schizophrenia, Their Unaffected Siblings, and Controls

    Dwight Dickinson;Dwight Dickinson;Terry E. Goldberg;James M. Gold;Brita Elvevåg

  • Identification of tone duration, line length, and letter position: an experimental approach to timing and working memory deficits in schizophrenia.

    Brita Elvevag;Gordon D. A. Brown;Teresa Mccormack;Janet I. Vousden

  • Latent semantic variables are associated with formal thought disorder and adaptive behavior in older inpatients with schizophrenia.

    Katherine Holshausen;Philip D. Harvey;Brita Elvevåg;Peter W. Foltz

  • A comparison of verbal fluency tasks in schizophrenic patients and normal controls

    B Elvevåg;D.M Weinstock;M Akil;J.E Kleinman

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel R. Weinberger
Daniel R. Weinberger Johns Hopkins University
Alex S. Cohen
Alex S. Cohen Louisiana State University
Terry E. Goldberg
Terry E. Goldberg Columbia University
Dwight Dickinson
Dwight Dickinson National Institutes of Health
Alessandro Bertolino
Alessandro Bertolino University of Bari Aldo Moro
Richard Coppola
Richard Coppola National Institutes of Health
Michael F. Egan
Michael F. Egan MSD (United States)
James M. Gold
James M. Gold University of Maryland, Baltimore
Venkata S. Mattay
Venkata S. Mattay Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Raymond P. Tucker
Raymond P. Tucker Louisiana State University

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