Christian K. Tamnes
@cktamnes.bsky.social
Developmental cognitive neuroscientist.
Professor at the PROMENTA Research Center and (https://www.sv.uio.no/promenta/english/) and NORMENT (https://www.med.uio.no/norment/english/) at the University of Oslo.
Professor at the PROMENTA Research Center and (https://www.sv.uio.no/promenta/english/) and NORMENT (https://www.med.uio.no/norment/english/) at the University of Oslo.
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Happy to announce that our article (my master’s thesis) is now published in PNAS. Here we investigated the link between pregnancy and birth and child brain structure 🧠🤰🏼👶🏻
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Linking pregnancy- and birth-related risk factors to a multivariate fusion of child cortical structure | PNAS
Pregnancy- and birth-related factors affect offspring brain development, emphasizing
the importance of early life exposures. While most previous st...
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June 18, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Happy to announce that our article (my master’s thesis) is now published in PNAS. Here we investigated the link between pregnancy and birth and child brain structure 🧠🤰🏼👶🏻
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The nature of the relation between mental well-being and ill-being
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The nature of the relation between mental well-being and ill-being - Nature Human Behaviour
Tamnes et al. explore the complex relationship between ill-being—including mental and behavioural disorders—and mental well-being.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The nature of the relation between mental well-being and ill-being
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Our paper - Neuroimaging Insights into Adolescent Depression and Development - is now out in Nature Mental Health! 🧠 Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @yaratoenders.bsky.social and @cktamnes.bsky.social. I loved bringing these ideas together with you! rdcu.be/eugUM
Neuroimaging insights into adolescent depression risk and development
Nature Mental Health - Adolescence marks a critical period for the onset of depression, yet the neurobiological mechanisms remain unclear. Here the authors review literature linking adolescent...
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July 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Our paper - Neuroimaging Insights into Adolescent Depression and Development - is now out in Nature Mental Health! 🧠 Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @yaratoenders.bsky.social and @cktamnes.bsky.social. I loved bringing these ideas together with you! rdcu.be/eugUM
"Socioeconomic context influences the heritability of child cortical structure". We show that genetic and environmental contributions to cortical structure vary between socioeconomically advantaged and disadvantaged children. New preprint by Linn Norbom: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 2, 2025 at 7:38 AM
"Socioeconomic context influences the heritability of child cortical structure". We show that genetic and environmental contributions to cortical structure vary between socioeconomically advantaged and disadvantaged children. New preprint by Linn Norbom: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
MRI-based cortical gray/white matter contrast in young adults who endorse psychotic experiences or are at genetic risk for psychosis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
MRI-based cortical gray/white matter contrast in young adults who endorse psychotic experiences or are at genetic risk for psychosis
Research has reported group-level differences in cortical grey/white matter contrast (GWC) in individuals with psychotic disorders. However, no studie…
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March 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
MRI-based cortical gray/white matter contrast in young adults who endorse psychotic experiences or are at genetic risk for psychosis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🚨New paper out in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 🚨 In this pre-registered study, we examined the role of pubertal development in the association between trauma exposure and internalising symptoms in female youth using ABCD data:
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<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Exposure to trauma in childhood is associated with an increased risk for internalising symptoms. Alterations in pubertal development has been proposed as a potential mechanism underpinnin...
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March 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🚨New paper out in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 🚨 In this pre-registered study, we examined the role of pubertal development in the association between trauma exposure and internalising symptoms in female youth using ABCD data:
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Hi Bluesky👋 Excited to use my first post to share our new paper: "Multimodal brain age indicators of internalizing problems in early adolescence: A longitudinal investigation" Now out in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Multimodal Brain Age Indicators of Internalizing Problems in Early Adolescence: A Longitudinal Investigation
Adolescence is a time of increased risk for the onset of internalizing problems, particularly in females. However, how individual differences in brain…
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January 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Hi Bluesky👋 Excited to use my first post to share our new paper: "Multimodal brain age indicators of internalizing problems in early adolescence: A longitudinal investigation" Now out in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 👀 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The dissonance between wanting and liking has always fascinated me. I recently wrote about Nguyen et al.’s (2021) review on the neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking - Nature Reviews Psychology
Nature Reviews Psychology - Neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking
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January 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The dissonance between wanting and liking has always fascinated me. I recently wrote about Nguyen et al.’s (2021) review on the neural underpinnings of atypical wanting and liking. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The nature of the relation between mental illbeing and wellbeing osf.io/preprints/ps...
December 20, 2024 at 10:39 AM
The nature of the relation between mental illbeing and wellbeing osf.io/preprints/ps...
Relationships between wellbeing polygenic scores, brain structure, and psychopathology in children www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Relationships between wellbeing polygenic scores, brain structure, and psychopathology in children
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December 20, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Relationships between wellbeing polygenic scores, brain structure, and psychopathology in children www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New Preprint and my final PhD paper🥲! We combined symptom and brain networks to look at symptom-specific associations between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
November 21, 2024 at 10:26 AM
New Preprint and my final PhD paper🥲! We combined symptom and brain networks to look at symptom-specific associations between internalizing problems and functional connectivity in adolescents. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
November 21, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Shared Patterns of Cognitive Control Behavior and Electrophysiological Markers in Adolescence
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Shared Patterns of Cognitive Control Behavior and Electrophysiological Markers in Adolescence
Abstract. Behavioral parameters obtained from cognitive control tasks have been linked to electrophysiological markers. Yet, most previous research has investigated only a few specific behavioral para...
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November 17, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Shared Patterns of Cognitive Control Behavior and Electrophysiological Markers in Adolescence
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We have a new preprint out examining symptom-specific polygenic associations with maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum in up to 59,000 MoBa mothers 🧬🌧️☀️
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November 17, 2024 at 12:12 PM
We have a new preprint out examining symptom-specific polygenic associations with maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum in up to 59,000 MoBa mothers 🧬🌧️☀️
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Associations between parental psychopathology and youth functional emotion regulation brain networks www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Associations between parental psychopathology and youth functional emotion regulation brain networks
Parental mental health is associated with children’s emotion regulation (ER) and risk for psychopathology. The relationship between parental psychopat…
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November 15, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Associations between parental psychopathology and youth functional emotion regulation brain networks www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Our latest paper, published today in Royal Society Open Science, found that being alone heightens 'threat alert' in teenagers—even when they're connected on social media. 🧠📲 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Increased threat learning after social isolation in human adolescents | Royal Society Open Science
In animal models, social isolation impacts threat responding and threat learning,
especially during development. This study examined the effects of acute social isolation
on threat learning in human a...
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November 14, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Our latest paper, published today in Royal Society Open Science, found that being alone heightens 'threat alert' in teenagers—even when they're connected on social media. 🧠📲 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Linking Pre- and Perinatal Risk Factors to a Multivariate Fusion of Child Cortical Structure www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Linking Pre- and Perinatal Risk Factors to a Multivariate Fusion of Child Cortical Structure
Pre- and perinatal factors such as maternal pregnancy and child birth complications affect child brain development, emphasizing the importance of early life exposures. While most previous studies have...
www.biorxiv.org
October 31, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Linking Pre- and Perinatal Risk Factors to a Multivariate Fusion of Child Cortical Structure www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Exciting new, collaborative work with @cktamnes.bsky.social and colleagues-- #TheJCPPadvances "Parental education and income are linked to offspring cortical brain structure and psychopathology at 9–11 years" acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
February 10, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Exciting new, collaborative work with @cktamnes.bsky.social and colleagues-- #TheJCPPadvances "Parental education and income are linked to offspring cortical brain structure and psychopathology at 9–11 years" acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
New preprint from Thea Wiker and the Neurocognitive Development group: osf.io/preprints/ps.... In an adolescent sample, we examined the associations between a bunch of behavioural parameters from a Stop signal task, as well as shared patterns between behaviour and ERPs.
January 19, 2024 at 3:41 PM
New preprint from Thea Wiker and the Neurocognitive Development group: osf.io/preprints/ps.... In an adolescent sample, we examined the associations between a bunch of behavioural parameters from a Stop signal task, as well as shared patterns between behaviour and ERPs.
New lab-paper from Thea Wiker on the development and longitudinal associations between drift diffusion parameters in the stop signal task and attention problems the ABCD Study. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 16, 2023 at 7:08 PM
New lab-paper from Thea Wiker on the development and longitudinal associations between drift diffusion parameters in the stop signal task and attention problems the ABCD Study. link.springer.com/article/10.1...