Aleksander Erga, PhD
@aleksandererga.bsky.social
Clinical psychologist, PI at KORFOR, and professor at @unistavanger.bsky.social. | Clinical research on #mentalhealth and #neuropsych in brain disorders (#Parkinson and #addiction) | Posts in 🇳🇴/🇬🇧.
Etter en uke med Schizofrenidagene, ser jeg nå frem til å treffe store deler av rusfeltet forskere på årets Vettre-seminar. Har med meg upubliserte data på risiko for kognitive vansker i starten av behandlling. www.med.uio.no/klinmed/fors...
Nasjonalt seminar for forskere på rusmiddelfeltet (Vettre-seminar)
- Senter for rus- og avhengighetsforskning
SERAF, Regionalt kompetansesenter for rusmiddelforskning i Helse Vest (KORFOR), Oslo Universitetssykehus (OUS) og Folkehelseinstituttet (FHI) inviterer til seminar for forskere innen rusmiddelfeltet p...
www.med.uio.no
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Etter en uke med Schizofrenidagene, ser jeg nå frem til å treffe store deler av rusfeltet forskere på årets Vettre-seminar. Har med meg upubliserte data på risiko for kognitive vansker i starten av behandlling. www.med.uio.no/klinmed/fors...
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🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com
- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)
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Exciting news from the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science--a joint effort to enhance open science training in clinical psychology!
If you are interested, you can the papers mentioned in the email here:
Van Til et al. osf.io/h34jg/files/...
OSC paper (Lynam et al.) osf.io/preprints/ps...
If you are interested, you can the papers mentioned in the email here:
Van Til et al. osf.io/h34jg/files/...
OSC paper (Lynam et al.) osf.io/preprints/ps...
October 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Exciting news from the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science--a joint effort to enhance open science training in clinical psychology!
If you are interested, you can the papers mentioned in the email here:
Van Til et al. osf.io/h34jg/files/...
OSC paper (Lynam et al.) osf.io/preprints/ps...
If you are interested, you can the papers mentioned in the email here:
Van Til et al. osf.io/h34jg/files/...
OSC paper (Lynam et al.) osf.io/preprints/ps...
Perfect ending to a busy semester. We arranged a successful 1st Stavanger Brain Health symposium on the 20th, w/excellent talks. Followed by the #IBNS conference in Tromsø. I was happy to give a talk on approaches to impulsivity in brain disorders. Now it’s time for something completely different.
June 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Perfect ending to a busy semester. We arranged a successful 1st Stavanger Brain Health symposium on the 20th, w/excellent talks. Followed by the #IBNS conference in Tromsø. I was happy to give a talk on approaches to impulsivity in brain disorders. Now it’s time for something completely different.
Three days until the first Stavanger Brain Health symposium! We are looking forward to great talks covering all things neuroscience! Thanks to Stavanger University Hospital and @unistavanger.bsky.social for their support!
June 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Three days until the first Stavanger Brain Health symposium! We are looking forward to great talks covering all things neuroscience! Thanks to Stavanger University Hospital and @unistavanger.bsky.social for their support!
Important new data on oxycodone prescriptions in Norway published by @haarren.bsky.social at KORFOR and @unistavanger.bsky.social. Haarr et al demonstrate a clear increase across healthcare settings.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Important new data on oxycodone prescriptions in Norway published by @haarren.bsky.social at KORFOR and @unistavanger.bsky.social. Haarr et al demonstrate a clear increase across healthcare settings.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Veldig kjekt å bli intervjuet av RA Stavanger i forbindelse med at jeg fikk opprykk til professor i oktober. www.rastavanger.no/5-165-104176
(+) Småbarnsfaren har oppnådd noe høyst uvanlig: – Stolt
Aleksander Hagen Erga fikk i høst opprykk til professortittel – som 39-åring.
www.rastavanger.no
May 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Veldig kjekt å bli intervjuet av RA Stavanger i forbindelse med at jeg fikk opprykk til professor i oktober. www.rastavanger.no/5-165-104176
Vi jakter etter en dyktig prosjektkoordinator for to spennende forskningsprosjekt vi er i gang med på KORFOR. Del gjerne med folk dette kan være relevant for.
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5196.webcruiter.no/Main2/Recrui...
Prosjektkoordinator
Ønsker du en spennende arbeidsplass med mange muligheter? Regionalt kompetansesenter for rusmiddelforskning i Helse Vest (KORFOR) har nå ledig et vikariat som prosjektkoordinator i 100%
stilling i to ...
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May 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Vi jakter etter en dyktig prosjektkoordinator for to spennende forskningsprosjekt vi er i gang med på KORFOR. Del gjerne med folk dette kan være relevant for.
5196.webcruiter.no/Main2/Recrui...
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When I read ideas about ChatGPT as a replacement for writing, I immediately go to Weick’s explanation of the old adage, “How do I know what I think, until I see what I say?” If it replaces or profoundly shapes the writing process, then it changes the thinking process… which will align w/ its outputs
Sam Altman describes ChatGPT as merely “a calculator for words”
the man responsible for destroying education doesn't understand writing, thinking, or math, although, to be fair, he certainly does understand capital
the man responsible for destroying education doesn't understand writing, thinking, or math, although, to be fair, he certainly does understand capital
May 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
When I read ideas about ChatGPT as a replacement for writing, I immediately go to Weick’s explanation of the old adage, “How do I know what I think, until I see what I say?” If it replaces or profoundly shapes the writing process, then it changes the thinking process… which will align w/ its outputs
So happy to share the 1st Stavanger Brain Health symposium, aimed at local researchers. This local initiative will gather researchers across basic, applied and clinical neuroscience in @unistavanger.bsky.social and Stavanger University Hospital.
Registration here:
svaross.ihelse.net/index.html?l...
Registration here:
svaross.ihelse.net/index.html?l...
Surveyor Answer
svaross.ihelse.net
April 1, 2025 at 5:46 AM
So happy to share the 1st Stavanger Brain Health symposium, aimed at local researchers. This local initiative will gather researchers across basic, applied and clinical neuroscience in @unistavanger.bsky.social and Stavanger University Hospital.
Registration here:
svaross.ihelse.net/index.html?l...
Registration here:
svaross.ihelse.net/index.html?l...
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New comment by @faridanvari.bsky.social and friends arguing that psychology is fragmented into the study of too many constructs and measures with too few links.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Defragmenting psychology
Nature Human Behaviour - Psychology is fragmented into the study of a myriad of constructs and measures, most of which are used very rarely. This hinders cumulative knowledge generation. We call on...
www.nature.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
New comment by @faridanvari.bsky.social and friends arguing that psychology is fragmented into the study of too many constructs and measures with too few links.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - really pleased that this paper with Henry Potter is now published in the European Journal of Neuroscience 😊
Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience
The search for neural mechanisms of behaviour often relies on a synchronic, driving view of causation, where neural activity drives more neural activity, which eventually drives behaviour. The real c...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - really pleased that this paper with Henry Potter is now published in the European Journal of Neuroscience 😊
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Viewpoint: Despite the expected increase in dementia due to an aging population, age-specific dementia prevalence rates in the US have declined by approximately two-thirds from 1984 to 2024. https://ja.ma/4hyAmNA
March 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Viewpoint: Despite the expected increase in dementia due to an aging population, age-specific dementia prevalence rates in the US have declined by approximately two-thirds from 1984 to 2024. https://ja.ma/4hyAmNA
This study looks to be of such importance for clinical training og specialist training in psychology. Looking forward to reading it when published.
Trying my first video on here: gif/mp4 of a forthcoming paper:
"Confirmatory Information Seeking is Robust in Psychologists' Diagnostic Reasoning"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#ConfirmationBias #psychology #diagnosis
"Confirmatory Information Seeking is Robust in Psychologists' Diagnostic Reasoning"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#ConfirmationBias #psychology #diagnosis
March 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This study looks to be of such importance for clinical training og specialist training in psychology. Looking forward to reading it when published.
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There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology)
Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord
We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science
www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...
Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord
We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science
www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...
Jobs and vacancies - Faculty of Social Sciences
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
www.sv.uio.no
February 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
There are currently three open faculty positions (all levels) in my department (Psychology)
Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord
We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science
www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...
Oslo is a lovely city, modestly sized (600k) but a capital, surrounded by forest and the fjord
We're also a stable democracy with high support of and trust in science
www.sv.uio.no/english/abou...
Always fun to see that our publications from the Stayer study have impact! Our paper on childhood trauma in SUD in J Dual Diagnosis was the most read paper of 2024!
doi.org/10.1080/1550...
doi.org/10.1080/1550...
The Relationship Between Self-Reported Childhood Maltreatment and Mental Health in Substance Use Disorders: A 6-Year Retrospective Analysis
This longitudinal cohort study aims to investigate the relationship between self-reported childhood maltreatment (CM) and the retrospective trajectory of substance use, mental health, and satisfact...
doi.org
January 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Always fun to see that our publications from the Stayer study have impact! Our paper on childhood trauma in SUD in J Dual Diagnosis was the most read paper of 2024!
doi.org/10.1080/1550...
doi.org/10.1080/1550...
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"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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January 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We are still accepting new students for my PhD course in DHV220 - quasiexperimentsl methods in health science at @unistavanger.bsky.social.
The course combines a week of lectures at campus and online meetings over the rest of the semester.
www.uis.no/en/student/c...
The course combines a week of lectures at campus and online meetings over the rest of the semester.
www.uis.no/en/student/c...
Quantitative design and analysis in health science with focus on quasi-experimental research | University of Stavanger
www.uis.no
January 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
We are still accepting new students for my PhD course in DHV220 - quasiexperimentsl methods in health science at @unistavanger.bsky.social.
The course combines a week of lectures at campus and online meetings over the rest of the semester.
www.uis.no/en/student/c...
The course combines a week of lectures at campus and online meetings over the rest of the semester.
www.uis.no/en/student/c...
En av de underligste sakene jeg har sett i denne førjulstiden, er når det offentlige ikke hjelper frivilligheten å nå trengende. Flere eksempler på dette i Stavanger Aftenblad i år, samtidig som det diskuteres hvor byråkratisk ekstra støtte før jul faktisk er. @mimirk.bsky.social
December 18, 2024 at 8:00 AM
En av de underligste sakene jeg har sett i denne førjulstiden, er når det offentlige ikke hjelper frivilligheten å nå trengende. Flere eksempler på dette i Stavanger Aftenblad i år, samtidig som det diskuteres hvor byråkratisk ekstra støtte før jul faktisk er. @mimirk.bsky.social
Jeg anbefaler alle med interesse i livet med helseplager å se på billedserien «Livet med #Parkinson» av Anders M. Leines. Denne oppfølgingsserien er 10 år etter diagnosen.
www.detteerparkinson.no
www.detteerparkinson.no
Bilder parkinson | Dette er parkinson ti år etter
De fotograf Anders M. Leines i 2014 laget utstillingen "DETTE ER PARKINSON" var det for å nyansere bildet av hvem det er som får sykdommen. Han endte opp med å gi oss et helt nytt. Hvordan har sykdomm...
www.detteerparkinson.no
December 17, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Jeg anbefaler alle med interesse i livet med helseplager å se på billedserien «Livet med #Parkinson» av Anders M. Leines. Denne oppfølgingsserien er 10 år etter diagnosen.
www.detteerparkinson.no
www.detteerparkinson.no
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People think they understand the brain, but often don't
"Neuromyths" come from
- lack of #psychology knowledge
- poor communication by #scientists 🧪
- low-quality info sources like outdated studies & tik tok
This 2022 review of neuromyths in education is 😧
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
"Neuromyths" come from
- lack of #psychology knowledge
- poor communication by #scientists 🧪
- low-quality info sources like outdated studies & tik tok
This 2022 review of neuromyths in education is 😧
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | The Persistence of Neuromyths in the Educational Settings: A Systematic Review
Neuroscience influences education, and these two areas have converged in a new field denominated “Neuroeducation.” However, the growing interest in the educa...
www.frontiersin.org
November 21, 2024 at 5:15 PM
People think they understand the brain, but often don't
"Neuromyths" come from
- lack of #psychology knowledge
- poor communication by #scientists 🧪
- low-quality info sources like outdated studies & tik tok
This 2022 review of neuromyths in education is 😧
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
"Neuromyths" come from
- lack of #psychology knowledge
- poor communication by #scientists 🧪
- low-quality info sources like outdated studies & tik tok
This 2022 review of neuromyths in education is 😧
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Got some great news today. Was awarded a scholarship from NFFO for the writing of the 🇳🇴book “A short introduction to addiction psychology”. Looking forward to working on this book project!
nffo.no/aktuelt/home...
#addiction #addictionpsych #narkosky
nffo.no/aktuelt/home...
#addiction #addictionpsych #narkosky
nffo.no
December 13, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Got some great news today. Was awarded a scholarship from NFFO for the writing of the 🇳🇴book “A short introduction to addiction psychology”. Looking forward to working on this book project!
nffo.no/aktuelt/home...
#addiction #addictionpsych #narkosky
nffo.no/aktuelt/home...
#addiction #addictionpsych #narkosky
In the nip of my stay in Sydney I got a chance to eat at www.ante.bar in Newtown. Highly recommend it. Fantastic food-sake pairings, superb atmosphere. Who can argue with soulful and jazzy vinyl and MacIntosh amplification anyway.
ANTE
Welcome to ANTE! A Sake Bar in Newtown, NSW. Open Thursday to Sunday.
www.ante.bar
December 7, 2024 at 10:37 AM
In the nip of my stay in Sydney I got a chance to eat at www.ante.bar in Newtown. Highly recommend it. Fantastic food-sake pairings, superb atmosphere. Who can argue with soulful and jazzy vinyl and MacIntosh amplification anyway.
Preparing to leave @sydneyuni.bsky.social after an educational six months at the Prasad lab @ Charles Perkins Center. Happy to have met existing and potentially new collaborators from clinical #neuropsych and #neuroscience. Now it’s time to get back to Norway for Xmas. It’s getting quite warm here.
December 6, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Preparing to leave @sydneyuni.bsky.social after an educational six months at the Prasad lab @ Charles Perkins Center. Happy to have met existing and potentially new collaborators from clinical #neuropsych and #neuroscience. Now it’s time to get back to Norway for Xmas. It’s getting quite warm here.
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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.
A Place of Joy.
A Place of Joy.
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪