Background: High efficiency is an obvious determining factor for skiing performance. Hence, it is likely that efficiency in the double poling (DP) and diagonal stride (DIA) technique may be affected by incline since the ...

Background Over the last two decades the annual number of patients being hospitalized at the Department of Neurology; Trondheim University Hospital has increased by 75%. Approximately 90% of these patients are admitted ...

The work presented in this thesis focuses on assessment of surgery-related morbidity in patients with diffuse gliomas – the most common primary malignant brain tumour in adults. Diffuse gliomas can be subdivided into ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is accompanied by regional reductions in the metabolism of glucose, which begins decades before symptoms appear. AD appears to involve a wide range of alterations in mitochondrial function, such ...

Background and purpose: Upper body poling is a sport-specific exercise mode for several Paralympic sports such as Nordic sit ski and ice sledge hockey. However, there is a lack of reliable and standardized tests to evaluate ...

Headache disorders are amongst the most prevalent causes of disability worldwide. Most of the effort to develop new therapeutics has focused on migraine. Patients suffering from less common headache disorders such as ...

Patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and serous or drusenoid pigment epithelial detachments (PEDs) have a high risk of progression to geographic atrophy, choroidal neovascularization, and a loss of visual ...