Eira Ebbs is a PhD fellow at the Department of Research and Innovation at the Division of Clinical Neuroscience at OUH and the Institute for Archeology, Conservation, and History at Oslo University. She is working on the project "A Cuture of Pain? Old Norse Society ca. 1100-1300". She presents some of her findings in this blogpost, which explores how physical and emotional pain was thought about and expressed in medieval Iceland as well as the relevance of this topic in a modern setting. These results will be published in more detail in a forthcoming article in Scandinavian Studies.

Monica Baumann-Larsen from the Department of Research and Innovation at the Division of Clinical Neuroscience at OUH has together with psychology researcher Helle Stangeland from the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) submitted a doctorate in the project "PATHWAY - Children's pathways after trauma for health and well-being through adolescence and young adulthood".
Here, they show that young people exposed to traumatic childhood events use more painkillers than others, and question whether this is the right treatment for headaches, body aches and psychological problems. The findings have recently been presented in an extensive feature article in the major Norwegian newspaper VG.