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Brynja Björk Magnúsdóttir, PhD, cand.psych.
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
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
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 Cognition, 27(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 cognition, 2(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.
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