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Brynja Björk Magnúsdóttir, Associate Professor

School:School of Social Sciences / Department of Psychology 
Phone:5996413 
Email:brynjabmru.is 
Website:https://www.ru.is/haskolinn/starfsfolk/brynjabm

Curriculum Vitae


Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Brynja Björk Magnúsdóttir, PhD, cand.psych.

 

 

Career                                                                                             

                                                                                                           
 

2021-present   Programme Director – BSc study

Reykjavik University - Department of Psychology

 

2019-present   Associate professor

Reykjavik University - Department of Psychology

 
2015-present   Specialist in clinical neuropsychology

Landspitali University Hospital         

                                    Division of Psychiatry           

 

2015-2019       Assistant professor

Reykjavik University

 

2014-2015       Adjunct

Reykjavik University

 

2008–2015      Clinical psychologist 
                        Neuropsychology                                                                   

Landspitali University Hospital         

 

2011-2015       Researcher/Post-doc

                        Landspitali University Hospital

 

2011-2014       Part-time lecturer                                                                             

Reykjavik University

            School of Business, Psychology department

 

2008-present   Part-time lecturer

                        University of Iceland

                                    School of Health Sciences, Medicine

 

2002-2008       Research worker and a part time assistant for psychologists                              Landspitali University Hospital

                        Division of Psychiatry

 

 

 

 

Education

           

2002-2008       King´s College London, Institute of Psychiatry

                        PhD in Neuropsychology

Thesis: Effects of Neuregulin 1 on cognitive function and symptoms in schizophrenia

Supervisors: Prof. Sir Robin Murray and Prof. Robin Morris

 

2006-2009       University of Iceland

Cand.psych in clinical psychology

 

1998-2002       University of Iceland

                        BA in psychology

                       

 

 

Peer Reviewed Papers

 

Valsdóttir, V., Magnúsdóttir, B. B., Chang, M., Sigurdsson, S., Gudnason, V., Launer, L. J., & Jónsdóttir, M. K. (2022). Cognition and brain health among older adults in Iceland: the AGES-Reykjavik study. GeroScience, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-022-00642-z

Banea, O. C., Dos Santos, L. G. B., Marcu, S., Stefánnson, S. B., Wassermann, E. M., Ívarsson, E., Magnusdottir, B.B.,… & Gargiulo, P. (2021). Network signatures of rTMS treatment in patients with schizophrenia and auditory verbal hallucination during an auditory-motor task using HD-EEG. Schizophrenia research, S0920-9964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2021.06.002

 

Vidarsdottir, O. G., Roberts, D. L., Twamley, E. W., Gudmundsdottir, B., Sigurdsson, E., & Magnusdottir, B. B. (2021). Case Report: Successful Implementation of Integrative Cognitive Remediation for Early Psychosis. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 1595. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.624091

 

Aubonnet, R., Banea, O. C., Sirica, R., Wassermann, E. M., Yassine, S., Jacob, D., ... & Gargiulo, P. (2020). P300 analysis using High-Density EEG to decipher neural response to rTMS in patients with schizophrenia and auditory verbal hallucinations. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, 1186. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.575538

 

Vidarsdottir, O.G., Roberts, D.L., Twamley, E.W., Gudmundsdottir, B., Sigurdsson, E., & Magnusdottir, B.B. (2020). Integrative Cognitive Remediation for early psychosis: A 12-month follow-up. Psychiatry Research, 288, 112964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112964

 

Valsdottir, V., Haraldsson, M., Gylfason, H. F., Sigurdsson, E., & Magnusdottir, B. B. (2020). Schizophrenia, cognition, and aging: cognitive deficits and the relationship between test performance and aging. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition27(1), 40-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2019.1572100

 

Magnusdottir, B. B., Haraldsson, H. M., & Sigurdsson, E. (2019). Trail Making Test, Stroop, and Verbal Fluency: Regression-Based Norms for the Icelandic Population. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology,36(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acz049

 

Magnusdottir, B. B., Faiola, E., Harms, C., Sigurdsson, E., Ettinger, U., & Haraldsson, H. M. (2019). Cognitive measures and performance on the antisaccade eye movement task. Journal of cognition2(1). http://doi.org/10.5334/joc.52

 

Vidarsdottir, O.G., Roberts, D.L., Twamley, E.W., Gudmundsdottir, B., Sigurdsson, E., & Magnusdottir, B.B. (2019). Integrative Cognitive Remediation for early psychosis: Results from a randomized controlled trial. Psychiatry Research, 273, 690-698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2019.02.007

 

Vidarsdottir, O.G., Twamley, E.W., Roberts, D.L., Gudmundsdottir, B., Sigurdsson, E., & Magnusdottir, B.B. (2019). Social and non-social measures of cognition for predicting self-reported and informant-reported functional outcomes in early psychosis. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 60, 295-303. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12549

 

Ulfarsson, M.O., Walters, G. B., Gustafsson, O., .. Magnusdottir, B. B., .. Stefansson, K. (2017). 15q11.2 CNV affects cognitive, structural and functional correlates of dyslexia and dyscalculia. Translational psychiatry, 7(4), e1109. https://doi.org/10.1038/tp.2017.77

 

Stefansson, H., Meyer-Lindberg, A., Steinberg, S., Magnusdottir, B.B., Morgen, K,...& Stefansson, K.(2014). CNVs conferring risk of autism or schizophrenia affect cognition in controls. Nature, 505(7483), 361-366. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12818

 

Haraldsson H.M. Ettinger U. Magnusdottir B.B. Ingason A. Hutton S.B. Sigmundsson T. Sigurdsson E. Petursson H.(2010). Neuregulin-1 genotypes and eye movements in schizophrenia. European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience. 260(1),77-85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-009-0032-2

    
Haraldsson H.M. Ettinger U. Magnusdottir B.B. Ingason A. Hutton S.B. Sigmundsson T. Sigurdsson E. Petursson H.(2010). Catechol-O-methyltransferase val158met polymorphism and antisaccade eye movements in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 36(1), 157-164. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbn064

 

Haraldsson HM, Ettinger U, Magnusdottir BB, Sigmundsson T, Sigurdsson E, Ingason A, Petursson H.(2009). COMT val158met and Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements in Schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research. 169(2),173-175.

 

Stefansson, H., Ophoff, R. A., Steinberg, S., Andreassen, O. A., Cichon, S., Rujescu, D., .. Magnusdottir B.B... & Kahn, R. S. (2009). Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia. Nature, 460(7256), 744-747.

 

 

Haraldsson, H. M., Ettinger, U., Magnusdottir, B. B., Sigmundsson, T., Sigurdsson, E., & Petursson, H. (2008). Eye movement deficits in schizophrenia. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 258(6), 373-383.

 

 

Stefansson, H., Rujescu, D., Cichon, S., Pietiläinen, O. P., Ingason, A., Steinberg, S., .. Magnusdottir BB ... & Vasilescu, C. (2008). Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia. Nature, 455(7210), 232-236.

 

Ingason, A., Sigmundsson, T., Steinberg, S., Sigurdsson, E., Haraldsson, M., Magnusdottir, B. B., … & Stefansson, H. (2007). Support for involvement of the AHI1 locus in schizophrenia. European journal of human genetics, 15(9), 988-991.

 

RU teaching record

2024-3E-765-AFKLAbnormal and Clinical Psychology: children, adolescence and adults
2024-1E-504-BSC1BSc Thesis I
2024-1E-604-BSC2BSc Thesis II
2024-1E-892-MSC2Research Thesis II: Implementation and Data Management
2024-1E-346-VISIScientific Writing
2023-3E-765-AFKLAbnormal and Clinical Psychology: children, adolescence and adults
2023-3E-504-BSC1BSc Thesis I
2023-1E-604-BSC2BSc Thesis II
2022-3E-765-AFKLAbnormal and Clinical Psychology: children, adolescence and adults
2022-3E-504-BSC1BSc Thesis I
2022-3E-604-BSC2BSc Thesis II
2022-3E-900-PHDPPhD Studies, Psychology
2022-3E-314-LISAPhysiological Psychology
2022-1E-504-BSC1BSc Thesis I
2022-1E-604-BSC2BSc Thesis II
2022-1E-871-VER1Superviced Clinical Placement I
2022-1E-346-VISIScientific Writing
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