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Kristine B. Walhovd

Kristine B. Walhovd

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Neuroscience
Norway
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
91
Citations
28802
World Ranking
1069
National Ranking
7

Kristine B. Walhovd publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kristine B. Walhovd sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 302 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Kristine B. Walhovd D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kristine B. Walhovd sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Kristine B. Walhovd is affiliated with Oslo University Hospital in Norway. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and medicine, including cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, physiology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Anders M. Fjell
  • Øystein Sørensen
  • Didac Vidal-Piñeiro
  • Athanasia M. Mowinckel
  • Lars Nyberg

They have published extensively in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • eLife

Recent publications by Kristine B. Walhovd include:

  • Timing of lifespan influences on brain and cognition, 2023, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Individual variations in 'brain age' relate to early-life factors more than to longitudinal brain change, 2021, eLife
  • Asymmetric thinning of the cerebral cortex across the adult lifespan is accelerated in Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Educational attainment does not influence brain aging, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cellular correlates of cortical thinning throughout the lifespan, 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Structural brain changes in aging: courses, causes and cognitive consequences.

    Anders M. Fjell;Kristine B. Walhovd

  • Brain Maturation in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Regional Age-Related Changes in Cortical Thickness and White Matter Volume and Microstructure

    Christian K. Tamnes;Ylva Østby;Anders M. Fjell;Lars T. Westlye

  • What is normal in normal aging? Effects of aging, amyloid and Alzheimer's disease on the cerebral cortex and the hippocampus

    Anders Martin Fjell;Linda McEvoy;Dominic Holland;Anders Dale

  • Life-Span Changes of the Human Brain White Matter: Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and Volumetry

    Lars T. Westlye;Kristine B. Walhovd;Anders M. Dale;Anders M. Dale;Atle Bjørnerud

  • High Consistency of Regional Cortical Thinning in Aging across Multiple Samples

    Anders M. Fjell;Lars T. Westlye;Inge Amlien;Thomas Espeseth

  • One-Year Brain Atrophy Evident in Healthy Aging

    Anders M. Fjell;Kristine B. Walhovd;Christine Fennema-Notestine;Linda K. McEvoy

  • Effects of age on volumes of cortex, white matter and subcortical structures.

    Kristine B. Walhovd;Anders M. Fjell;Ivar Reinvang;Arvid Lundervold

  • Consistent neuroanatomical age-related volume differences across multiple samples.

    Kristine B. Walhovd;Lars T. Westlye;Inge Amlien;Thomas Espeseth

  • Differential Longitudinal Changes in Cortical Thickness, Surface Area and Volume across the Adult Life Span: Regions of Accelerating and Decelerating Change

    Andreas Berg Storsve;Anders Martin Fjell;Christian Krog Tamnes;Lars Tjelta Westlye

  • Heterogeneity in Subcortical Brain Development: A Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Brain Maturation from 8 to 30 Years

    Ylva Østby;Christian K. Tamnes;Anders M. Fjell;Lars T. Westlye

  • The Structure of the Cerebral Cortex Across Adult Life: Age-Related Patterns of Surface Area, Thickness, and Gyrification

    Larson J. Hogstrom;Lars T. Westlye;Kristine B. Walhovd;Anders M. Fjell

  • Effects of memory training on cortical thickness in the elderly

    Andreas Engvig;Anders M. Fjell;Lars T. Westlye;Torgeir Moberget

  • Critical ages in the life course of the adult brain: Nonlinear subcortical aging

    Anders Martin Fjell;Anders Martin Fjell;Lars Tjelta Westlye;Håkon Grydeland;Inge Amlien

  • A common brain network links development, aging, and vulnerability to disease

    Gwenaëlle Douaud;Adrian R. Groves;Christian K. Tamnes;Lars Tjelta Westlye

  • Brain development and aging: overlapping and unique patterns of change.

    Christian K. Tamnes;Kristine B. Walhovd;Anders M. Dale;Ylva Østby

  • Combining MR Imaging, Positron-Emission Tomography, and CSF Biomarkers in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Alzheimer Disease

    K.B. Walhovd;A.M. Fjell;J. Brewer;L.K. McEvoy

  • Accelerating Cortical Thinning: Unique to Dementia or Universal in Aging?

    Anders M. Fjell;Lars T. Westlye;Håkon Grydeland;Inge Amlien

  • Intracortical Myelin Links with Performance Variability across the Human Lifespan: Results from T1-and T2-Weighted MRI Myelin Mapping and Diffusion Tensor Imaging

    Håkon Grydeland;Kristine B Walhovd;Christian Krog Tamnes;Lars Tjelta Westlye

  • Accelerated Changes in White Matter Microstructure during Aging: A Longitudinal Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

    Claire E. Sexton;Kristine B. Walhovd;Andreas B. Storsve;Christian K. Tamnes

  • Memory training impacts short-term changes in aging white matter: A Longitudinal Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

    Andreas Engvig;Anders M. Fjell;Anders M. Fjell;Lars T. Westlye;Torgeir Moberget

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders M. Fjell
Anders M. Fjell Oslo University Hospital
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
Christian K. Tamnes
Christian K. Tamnes University of Oslo
Håkon Grydeland
Håkon Grydeland University of Oslo
Anders M. Dale
Anders M. Dale J. Craig Venter Institute
Paulina Due-Tønnessen
Paulina Due-Tønnessen Oslo University Hospital
Lars Nyberg
Lars Nyberg Umeå University
René Westerhausen
René Westerhausen University of Oslo
Ivar Reinvang
Ivar Reinvang University of Oslo
Bruce Fischl
Bruce Fischl Harvard University

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