About my research
Alma mater: University of Oslo. Worked at: Institute for Behavioral Research, Silver Spring, Md. 1965-1967; University of Oslo 1967-2009; Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway 2005-2015. Initiated "Little in Norway", a prospective longitudinal study of children prebirth-school age. Areas of research: animal work, typical and atypical child development, prematurely born children, developmental neuropsychology, child autism spectrum, maternal and child mental health and nutrition. Currently: Professor emeritus, University of Oslo.
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- Salient factors in the transition to parenthood
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- Mapping dysregulation in early childhood
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- Risk constellations in pregnancy and adverse developmental outcomes to child age 18 months
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- Expectant fathers' place in current attachment theory.
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- Mother-infant and father-infant interaction patterns.
- The Early Relational Health Screen (ERHS)
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- Fatty Acid Reference Intervals in Red Blood Cells among Pregnant Women in Norway–Cross Sectional Data from the ‘Little in Norway’ Cohort
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- Iodine status during pregnancy and at 6 weeks, 6, 12 and 18 months post‐partum
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- Antecedents of fathers' perception of infant behavior.
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- Follow-up of social-emotional functioning in young foster children
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- A longitudinal community-based cohort: from pregnancy to child age 18 months
- DNA methylation changes in infants between 6 and 52 weeks
- Prenatal maternal depressive symptoms and infant DNA methylation: a longitudinal epigenome-wide study
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- The contagion of depressive symptoms among prospective parents
- Sufficient iodine status among Norwegian toddlers 18 months of age – cross-sectional data from the Little in Norway study
- The relation of parental antenatal factors and infant temperament to parenting stress.
- Maternal Iodine Status is Associated with Offspring Language Skills in Infancy and Toddlerhood
- Effects of early hospital discharge routines after birth
- Men's adverse childhood experiences and self-reported stress when they become fathers
- Children of mothers with substance-abuse problems
- Early social interaction in foster dyads
- Iodine Deficiency in a Study Population of Norwegian Pregnant Women—Results from the Little in Norway Study (LiN)
- The role of parenting stress in predicting early child development
- Infant temperamental adaptability, persistence, and regularity
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- Early interaction in autism spectrum disorder
- Elevated cortisol levels among toddlers in child care
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- Differential trajectories of postpartum depression and concomitant predictors
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- Relation between maternal postnatal depression and infants' communicative behavior
- The Association between Hair Cortisol and Self-Reported Symptoms of Depression in Pregnant Women
- Precursors of infant social emotional functioning
- Can social-emotional problems be detected as early as age 12 months?
- Fathers' adverse childhood experiences relate to pregnancy issues.
- Early language skills in childen of mothers with substance abuse and psychiatric issues
- Foster parents' state of mind and their children's attachment patterns
- Early treatment of autism
- Stability of attachment classification among young foster children
- Social withdrawal in full-term and prematurely born infants, and maternal depression
- Developmental aspects in a study of young foster children
- Deferred imitation and social communication in children with autism
- A randomized controlled trial of stress in fathers of preterm infants
- Maternal depression and infant daytime cortisol
- Effects of early mother-infant intervention: A randomized controlled trial with premies
- Maternal sensitivity to babies in mothers with substance abuse and psychiatric issues
- Mother-infant interaction when mothers are in opioid maintenance treatment
- A randomized controlled joint-attention intervention for preschool children with autism
- Social communication impairments in young persons with high functioning autism
- Effect of early intervention with preterm infants at follow-up at age 12 months
- Community care to prevent and treat postpartum depression
- Attention among very low birth weight infants following early supplementation with docosahexaenoic and arachidonic acid
- Supportive counselling of women with postpartum depression
- Prevalence of postpartum depression
- Brain dynamics of word familiarization in toddlers
- Cognitive functioning in Rett syndrome
- Productive vocabulary size in 20-month-olds has electrophysiological correlates.
- Individuals with high-functioning autism on advanced theory of mind tasks
- Cognitive flexibility and focused attention in children and adolescents with high-functioning autism
- The development of positive ERP components across age in humans
- Performance of children and adolescents with high-functioning autism on visuo-spatial tasks
- The predictive validity of infant recall memory and joint attention
- Semantic organization of basic-level words in toddlers
- Response times of individuals with autism on an 'advanced' test of Theory of Mind
- Predicting communicative gesture production in infancy at age 14 months
- The Strange Stories Test: A replication study of individuals with high-functioning autism
- Linkages between joint-attention behavior in infancy and later IQ
- Prenatal substance exposure and infant recognition memory are related to later cognitive competence
- A new `advanced' test of theory of mind: evidence from children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome
- Infant recognition memory is related to cognitive competence at age 8.
- Temperament compared in children with Down Syndrome and Premature Birth
- Hidden visual capabilities in persons clinically diagnosed as deaf-blind
- Joint attention in infancy is related to later cognitive and language skills.
- Rett Syndrome - Distribution of Phenotypes with Special Attention to the Preserved Speech Variant
- Very Low Birth Weight Infants (<1501 g) at Double Risk
- Longitudinal case studies of communication in Down syndrome infants
- Assessment of the effects of brief separation from parent on infants
- Age and brief separation: Note on children's distress reactions
- Effects of presence of mother versus preschool teacher on the behaviour of infants in a strange situation
- The behavior of young children in a strange situation
- Detection of the velocity of movement of visual stimuli by pigeons
- Effects of brief separation from parent on 1-2-year olds
- Eye Dominance in a Monkey
- Avian concept learning