Valgeir Thorvaldsson

Childhood inductive reasoning, cardiovascular and cardiometabolic morbidity and dementia risk – a population representative cohort study across six decades

Abstract Background Higher cognitive ability in late adolescence and young adulthood associate with reduced risk of dementia, but such assessments are influenced by educational selection. Whether specific cognitive abilities earlier in childhood associate with later dementia risk...

Evaluation of the Psychometric Scale Properties of Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ-8) in Persons with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders and Healthy Controls

There is a need to effectively measure mentalization in people with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (SSD) due to its relevance for delusions and hallucinations. The RFQ-8 appears to be an easy-to-administer screening tool for mentalization, but its factor structure is debated. I...