Thies Ludtke

Avhandlingen er tilgjengelig her! / The doctoral thesis is available here!



Disputasen og prøveforelesningen blir strømmet. Opptaket av disputasen vil være tilgjengelig i et døgn.

The defense and the trial lecture will be streamed. A recording of the disputation will be available for 24 hours.


Prøveforelesning over oppgitt emne starter kl. 10.15 / The trial lecture starts at 10.15
Tittel/Title: "Towards understanding psychiatric conditions: Nosological categories or symptom spectra?"
Prøveforelesningen strømmes her / The trial lecture will be streamed here

Disputasen starter kl. 12.15 / The defense starts at 12.15
Disputasen strømmes her / The defense will be streamed here

De som ønsker å opponere ex auditorio kan sende e-post til leder av disputasen. 
Opponents ex auditorio should sign up to leader of defense by e-mail to:
per.h.brondbo@uit.no

 
Populærvitenskapelig sammendrag av avhandlingen/ Summary of the thesis

The intensity of paranoia or hallucinations changes over time – even within the same day. Before symptoms get worse, people with psychosis often report warning signs, such as sadness, sleep problems, or worrying.

Theoretical models suggest that sadness, sleep, or worrying not only precede but cause subsequent symptoms, so my colleagues and I developed an online program called EviBaS that aims at treating these warning signs to indirectly improve hallucinations and paranoia.

The program improved hallucinations and mindfulness, but sleep and worrying remained unchanged. The second goal of this thesis was to use within-day warning signs to improve the prediction of relapse.
Whereas attempts to predict severe relapses were unsuccessful, we could find that warning signs predicted more subtle symptoms two weeks in advance.

In sum, this thesis shows that findings from patients’ everyday lives offer promising starting points to improve the treatment and the prediction of psychotic symptoms.


Veiledere/ Supervisors:
Hovedveileder/Main supervisor:
Professor Gerit Pfuhl, Institutt for psykologi, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet.
Biveileder/supervisor:
Professor Steffen Moritz, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.

Bedømmelseskomité/Defensecomitee:
Professor Inez Myin-Germeys, KU Leuven, Center for Contextual Psychiatry Department of Neuroscience – 1. opponent.
Førsteamanuensis Wenche ten Velden Hegelstad, Universitetet i Stavanger – 2. opponent.
Førsteamanuensis Gabor Csifcsak, Institutt for psykologi, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet – leder av komité.

Disputasleder/ Leader of defense:
Instituttleder Per Håkan Brøndbo, Institutt for psykologi, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet.