Helga Ask
Research Professor
Responsibilities
I am the co-director of the Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health – PsychGen, and a research professor at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. I am interested in getting new knowledge on how genetic and environmental factors play together to influence the development of common mental health problems in children and adolescents. Currently, I am leading Nordic projects investigating risk and resilience in the population during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Projects and publications
- Betydning av tidlige erfaringer i barnehage og skole for senere utvikling og utdanning (MoBaEarlyEd)
- Covid-19 and impact on mental health: a longitudinal, multi-national study (C-Me).
- Forståelse av de genetiske faktorene som spiller en rolle for nevropsykologisk utvikling
- Genetisk sårbarehet for angstlidelser
- Infeksjon, immunitet og ADHD
- Intergenerational Transmission of Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathological Spectra: A Genome-Wide Complex Trait Study
- Parenthood, childlessness and mental health in times of falling fertility
- Post-pandemic mental health: Risk and resilience in young people (covidmentYOUNG)
- Prenatale risikofaktorer for ADHD
- PsychGen -"Genetisk epidemiologistudier med fokus på nevroutvikling og psykisk helse".
- Reproduction of socioeconomic differences and mental health across generations (REMENTA)