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NEWS

New primer on pharmacological opioid blockade out in Neuropsychopharmacology
LABlab welcomes PhD student Siri Gurandsrud Karlsen & postdoc Harald Lenz
Participate in research – healthy volunteers needed
New corrigendum to Leknes&Atlas BJA letter
New preprint by Løseth et al: Stress recovery with social support
We are hiring a physician postdoc: apply here before May 1
Primer on optimal dosing+timing of opioid antagonists: New preprint by Martin Trøstheim et al
Happy end-of-2021 news: LABlab’s surgery study gets funding for a PhD at Kongsberg + postdoc at OUS
LAB lab is excited to welcome our new nurse Renate Fevang & new postdoc Molly Carlyle!
Two new positions open at LABlab! postdoc in affective neuroscience & nurse/ physician
Siri Leknes is the new president-elect of Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN)
Guro Løseth wins Best Talk Award at Society for Affective Science 2021!
Leknes releases annotated CV for SAS2021 Salon on Rejection & Resilience
New review on lessons from opioid psychopharmacology by Meier et al
New paper by Laeng et al shows brain opioids are not necessary for music appreciation
New paper on how pupil dilation can alter brightness perception, with Bruno Laeng
Recorded talks from ABC Seminar Series now hosted here!

RECENT ACTIVITY

Intranasal oxytocin stabilises face percept – new paper out
LAB lab starts ABC seminar series: Affective Brains during Covid!
New paper out: meta-analysis of anhedonia by Trøstheim et al.
Axel Vittersø awarded MRC postdoc transition grant to visit LAB lab
Two new postdocs joined LABlab: Welcome Silvana de Pirro & Isabell Meier!
LABlab’s new project kick-off day Feb 2020 (scroll for photos)
Two new grants to Siri Leknes and Gernot Ernst from HSØ: 2020-2022
Siri Leknes on pain & pleasure, BBC4 Dec 19: listen here
New paper out: anhedonia in chronic pain/opioid misuse
New PhD student at LAB lab: Martin Trøstheim
New paper by Eikemo et al on anhedonia in substance use
New papers out: opioids and touch by Guro Løseth et al; opioids, cognition & decision-making by van Steenbergen et al
New video methods paper from Anbjørn Ree et al
New preprint on anhedonia in chronic pain by Eric Garland in collaboration with LAB lab
New preprint on opioids and touch by Guro Løseth et al
LAB lab hires two new PhD students: David Medved & Guro Løseth!
New paper by Anbjørn Ree et al on pleasant touch
New preregistration of meta-analysis of anhedonia with Martin Trøstheim
New paper by Chantal Berna, Siri Leknes et al. on the opioid dependence of pain relief modes
LAB lab receives an ERC Starting Grant
New paper by Placebo Imaging Consortium
New paper by Uta Sailer, Anbjørn Ree et al.
LAB lab’s first preprint is out: on opioids, cognition & reward, with Marie Eikemo & Henk van Steenbergen
LAB lab’s first preregistration is out: on oxytocin & gaze to the eyes, with Runa Jacobsen
Siri Leknes presenting on opioids, oxytocin, reward & pain @ ESCAN, Leiden in July
Siri Leknes @ ERC Starting Grant 2018 interview in Brussels, May ’18
Remy Meir awarded Fulbright Scholarship to join LAB lab from 08/18
New paper accepted in PNEC! Løseth et al. on morphine effects on emotion perception
Siri Leknes presenting at CERE symposium “Neurochemistry of affect: The role of the opioid system“, Glasgow, April 2018

Visit and talk by Louk Vanderschuren, March 16, 12-1 pm
Siri Leknes joins Neuroqualia project

Regional Health Authority grant to Marie Eikemo and Siri Leknes
Uta Sailer wins FRIMEDBIO grant
Visit and talk by Siri Leknes at Yale University’s John B. Pierce Laboratory Seminar Series, 22 Jan 2018. Hosted by Dr Paul Geha
Visit from Georgia Silani and Claus Lamm, University of Vienna now scheduled for June 2018
LAB lab alumnus Jostein Holmgren wins prestigious Aker stipend
Public lecture by Siri Leknes on Love, pain and pleasure at Copenhagen’s Science & Cocktails, 7. November at 8 pm
Visit from Alexa Veenema, Michigan State University. Talk and workshop on rodent-human parallels, 26 October
Radio interview about women and alcohol, NRK p2 EKKO 27 Sept
EBPS meeting, Crete 31 Aug-3 September. Talk by Guro Løseth: Does mu-opioid modulation of social reward in humans mirror findings from animal models?
IASAT meeting, Liverpool 1-3 September. Talk by Siri Leknes on Lack of Opioid and Oxytocin Mediation of Touch Pleasantness
LAB lab alumnus Peder Isager starts PhD with Daniel Lakens at Eindhoven University of Technology
LAB lab alumnus Jostein Holmgren starts D.Phil with Katie Warnaby at University of Oxford

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