Rikka Kjelkenes

Postdoctoral Fellow - Cognitive psychology, Neuroscience and Neuropsychology

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Email rikka.kjelkenes@psykologi.uio.no

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Visiting address Forskningsveien 3A Harald Schjelderups hus 0373 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1094 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Other affiliations Department of Psychology

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Academic interests

The use of multimodal brain imaging to study brain development during adolescence.
Sex differences in brain development and mental disorders
Environmental effects on the brain and mental health

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the CCN department and the Multimodal Imaging group. I am working in the environMENTAL consortium, and also closely with the BRAINMINT project.

Background

PhD in Neuroscience from OUS/UiO
MSc in Neuroscience from NTNU
Bachelor in Psychology from NTNU

Tags: Avdeling for kognitiv og klinisk nevrovitenskap, Kognitiv psykologi og nevropsykologi, Nevrovitenskap, ungdom

Lehmler, Stephan; Siehl, Sebastian; Kjelkenes, Rikka; Heukamp, Jannik; Westlye, Lars Tjelta & Holz, Nathalie [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2024). Closing the loop between environment, brain and mental health: How far we might go in real-life assessments? Current Opinion in Psychiatry. ISSN 0951-7367. 37(4), p. 301–308. doi: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000941.
Gurholt, Tiril Pedersen; Borda, Miguel Germán; Parker, Nadine; Fominykh, Vera; Kjelkenes, Rikka & Linge, Jennifer [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2024). Linking sarcopenia, brain structure and cognitive performance: a large-scale UK Biobank study. Brain Communications. ISSN 2632-1297. 6(2). doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae083.
Voldsbekk, Irene; Kjelkenes, Rikka; Frogner, Erik Rimestad; Westlye, Lars Tjelta & Alnæs, Dag (2024). Testing the sensitivity of diagnosis-derived patterns in functional brain networks to symptom burden in a Norwegian youth sample. Human Brain Mapping. ISSN 1065-9471. 45(3). doi: 10.1002/hbm.26631.
Xu, Jiayuan; Liu, Nana; Polemiti, Elli; Garcia-Mondragon, Liliana; Tang, Jie & Liu, Xiaoxuan [Show all 88 contributors for this article] (2023). Effects of urban living environments on mental health in adults. Nature Medicine. ISSN 1078-8956. 29, p. 1456–1467. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02365-w. Full text in Research Archive
Voldsbekk, Irene; Kjelkenes, Rikka; Dahl, Andreas; Holm, Madelene Christin; Lund, Martina Jonette & Kaufmann, Tobias Herbert [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2023). Delineating disorder-general and disorder-specific dimensions of psychopathology from functional brain networks in a developmental clinical sample. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. ISSN 1878-9293. 62. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101271. Full text in Research Archive
Holm, Madelene Christin; Leonardsen, Esten Høyland; Beck, Dani; Dahl, Andreas; Kjelkenes, Rikka & de Lange, Ann-Marie Glasø [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2023). Linking brain maturation and puberty during early adolescence using longitudinal brain age prediction in the ABCD cohort. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. ISSN 1878-9293. 60. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101220. Full text in Research Archive
Voldsbekk, Irene; Kjelkenes, Rikka; Wolfers, Thomas; Dahl, Andreas; Lund, Martina Jonette & Kaufmann, Tobias [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2023). Shared pattern of impaired social communication and cognitive ability in the youth brain across diagnostic boundaries. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. ISSN 1878-9293. 60. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101219. Full text in Research Archive
Kjelkenes, Rikka; Wolfers, Thomas; Alnæs, Dag; van der Meer, Dennis; Pedersen, Mads Lund & Dahl, Andreas [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2023). Mapping Normative Trajectories of Cognitive Function and Its Relation to Psychopathology Symptoms and Genetic Risk in Youth. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science. ISSN 2667-1743. 3(2), p. 255–263. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2022.01.007. Full text in Research Archive
Kjelkenes, Rikka; Wolfers, Thomas; Alnæs, Dag; Norbom, Linn Christin Bonaventure; Voldsbekk, Irene & Holm, Madelene Christin [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2022). Deviations from normative brain white and gray matter structure are associated with psychopathology in youth. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. ISSN 1878-9293. 58. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101173. Full text in Research Archive
Fernandez-Cabello, Sara; Alnæs, Dag; van der Meer, Dennis; Dahl, Andreas; Holm, Madelene Christin & Kjelkenes, Rikka [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2022). Associations between brain imaging and polygenic scores of mental health and educational attainment in children aged 9–11. NeuroImage. ISSN 1053-8119. 263. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119611. Full text in Research Archive
Pedersen, Mads Lund; Alnæs, Dag; van der Meer, Dennis; Fernandez-Cabello, Sara; Berthet, Pierre Guillaume Raphael & Dahl, Andreas [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2022). Computational Modeling of the n-Back Task in the ABCD Study: Associations of Drift Diffusion Model Parameters to Polygenic Scores of Mental Disorders and Cardiometabolic Diseases. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. ISSN 2451-9022. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.03.012. Full text in Research Archive

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Voldsbekk, Irene; Lund, Martina Jonette; Kaufmann, Tobias; Fernandez-Cabello, Sara; Kjelkenes, Rikka & Dahl, Andreas [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2022). Cross-Diagnostic Patterns of Socio-Cognitive Traits in the Developing Brain of Children and Adolescents.

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Projects

BRAINMINT: Brains and minds in transition

Research groups

Multimodal Imaging