Recent PhD projects

Oliver Henning (MD):
Sexuality, depression and side effects in refractory epilepsy patients.
Dissertation 19.11.2020. Supervisor: Morten I. Lossius

Magnhild Kverneland (MSc.Reg.clin.dietitian, PhD-Student):
Effect of modified Atkin’s diet in adult patients with pharmacoresistant focal epilepsy. A randomized controlled study. Dissertation: 28.02.2020. Supervisor: Karl Otto Nakken. Co-supervisor: Erik Taubøll

Kari Modalsli Aaberg (MD):
Epilepsy in young children. Dissertation: 18.06.2018. Supervisor: Pål Suren, FHI. Co-supervisors: Per Magnus, Richard Chin, and Morten I. Lossius

Hilde Nordahl Karterud (Can.San):
A troublesome diagnosis! Perceptions of illness and self in adolescents and adults with psychogenic, non-epileptic seizures (PNES).  Dissertation: 19.05.2017. Supervisor: Ole Rikard Haavet. Co-supervisor: Mette Bech Risør

Silje Systad (MSc.Spec.ed):
Is language impairments a symptom of nocturnal epileptiform activity? Studies exploring the relationship between nocturnal epileptiform activity and language impairments. Dissertation: 14.12.2017. Supervisor: Solveig Alma-Lyster. Co-supervisor: Marit Bjørnvold 

Kristin Å. Alfstad (MD):
Psychiatric comorbidity and risk factors for psychopathology in children and youth with epilepsy. Dissertation: 28.06.2016. Supervisor: Morten I Lossius

Anette Ramm-Pettersen (MD):
GLUT1 deficiency syndrome in Norway - an epidemiological study of a treatable metabolic disease. Dissertation: 10.06.2015. Supervisor: Kaja K. Selmer. Co-supervisor: Karl O. Nakken