Funding and collaborators
On-going funding
- South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority : 1 PhD , 1 post doc 6 yrs
- Stiftelsen Dam (Norwegian Foundation for Health and Rehabilitation): 4PhD
Other financial support:
- Norwegian chapter of ILAE
- Norwegian Epilepsy society
- Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Rare Disorders
National network
EpilepsiNett: National Network for Evidence-based Epilepsy Care.
Chairperson: Marte Syversen. Management team: Morten I. Lossius, Nils Erik Gilhus, Marte Bjørk, Kristin Å. Alfstad, Jørn Mandla Sibeko.
International networks
EpiCARE. European Reference Network (ERN) on rare and complex epilepsies. Lead of working group 18 and executive committee member: Morten I. Lossius
International projects:
EURAP study. An International Antiepileptic Drugs and Pregnancy Registry” (International concerted Action on the Teratogenesis of Anti-epileptic Drugs) (http://www.eurapinternational.org/). Silje Alvestad, international steering committee and Torill Martinez national coordinator
"Computer based identification of morphometric abnormalities in MRI images in patients before and after operation in the temporal lobe.” Kristin Å. Alfstad, Morten I. Lossius, Jugoslav Ivanovic, Pål Bache Marthinsen, Oslo University Hospital and Lars Pinborg, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
Associated senior researchers
- Prof. Jukka Peltola Tampere, Finland
- Roderick Duncan, MD, PhD. New Zealand.
- Torbjörn Tomson, Prof. Karolinska.
- Christoph Helmstaedter, professor, Bonn University.
- Anette Huuse Farmen, MD. Innlandet hospital and UiO
- Marte Syvertsen, MD, PhD Vestre Viken and UiO
- Guido Rubbioli Professor, Philadelfia, Aarhus
- Sandor Benizky, professor, Certified Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist
- Maryam Shirzadi, Nevrolog ved Nevroklinikken ved St. Olavs hospital og 1. amanuensis ved Institutt for nevromedisin og bevegelsesvitenskap ved NTNU.
- Eline Revdal, Nevrolog ved Avd for nevrologi og klinisk nevrofysiologi St. Olavs Hospital og PhD-student ved St. Olavs Hospital, NTNU
- Professor Rohit Shankar MBE, FRCPsych
- Professor in Neuropsychiatry, Peninsula School of Medicine, University of Plymouth
- Margrete Larsen Burns, seksjonsleder lab SSE,MD overlege, PhD
- Kaja k.Selmer Head of Neurogenetics Research Group; MD, PhD