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Valgeir Thorvaldsson
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Psykologiska institutionenOm Valgeir Thorvaldsson
Bakgrund
Grundutbildning i psykologi vid Islands universitet (2001). Filosofie doktor i psykologi vid Göteborgs universitet (2008). Postdoktoral forskare vid Universitet i Victoria, British Columbia, Kanada (2010). Docent vid Psykologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet (2015). Professor vid samma institution sedan 2021.
Undervisning
Undervisar i kvantitativ metod på grund- och avancerad nivå.
Forskningsintresse
Studerar hur olika faktorer påverkar kognitivt åldrande, nedsatt funktion och risken för demens hos äldre.
Pågående forskning
Forskar om:
- Vaskulära faktorers betydelse för kognition i hög ålder
- Födelsekohortskillnader i kognitivt åldrande
- Prediktion av nedsatt kognition, demens och dödlighet
- Inlärning hos äldre
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Joint modeling of cognitive aging and survival: Evaluation of birth cohort
differences
Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Ingmar Skoog, Boo Johansson
Intelligence - 2025 -
Delayed Onset of Cognitive Terminal Decline in Later Born Cohorts: Evidence From a Longitudinal Study of Two Cohorts Born 29-Years
Apart
Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Ingmar Skoog, Boo Johansson
PSYCHOLOGY AND AGING - 2025 -
Impact of Stroke on Cognition in Old Age: Comparison of Two Population-Based Cohorts, Born up to 30 Years Apart and Followed From Age 70 to
85
Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Johan Skoog, Ingmar Skoog, Boo Johansson
Psychology and Aging - 2024 -
Between- and within-person longitudinal associations between personality traits and social support across relationships during older
adulthood
Patrick L Hill, Gabrielle N Pfund, Mathias Allemand, Marie Kivi, Anne Ingeborg Berg, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Isabelle Hansson
European Journal of Personality - 2024 -
Preventive interventions for children of parents with depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder: A quasi-experimental clinical
trial
Emme-Lina Wirehag Nordh, Karin Grip, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Gisela Priebe, Maria Afzelius, Ulf Axberg
Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics - 2023 -
Polygenic risk scores for Alzheimer's disease in relation to cognitive change: A representative sample from the general population followed over 16
years.
Jenna Najar, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Silke Kern, Johan Skoog, Margda Waern, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Ingmar Skoog, Anna Zettergren
Neurobiology of Disease - 2023 -
CHANGES IN PERSONALITY TRAITS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT BEFORE AND AFTER
RETIREMENT
Gabrielle Pfund, Patrick Hill, Mathias Allemand, Marie Kivi, Anne Ingeborg Berg, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Isabelle Hansson
The Gerontological Society of America's 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting, Indianapolis, United States, November 2-6, 2022 - 2022 -
Testing the personality differentiation by intelligence hypothesis in a representative sample of Swedish
hexagenerians
Anton Andersson, Petri Kajonius, Valgeir Thorvaldsson
Journal of Research in Personality - 2022 -
Future time perspective and personality trait change during the retirement transition: Insights from a six-wave longitudinal study in
Sweden.
Patrick L. Hill, Marie Kivi, Isabelle Hansson, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Mathias Allemand
Psychology and Aging - 2022 -
Effects of Work Demand and Changes in Leisure Activity on Postretirement
Memory
Linn Elena Zulka, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Isabelle Hansson, Linda Hassing
GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry - 2022 -
What matters and what matters most for survival after age 80? A multidisciplinary exploration based on twin
data
Boo Johansson, Valgeir Thorvaldsson
Frontiers in Psychology - 2021 -
Personality and reasoning ability during retirement age: Report from a Swedish population-based longitudinal
study
Linn Elena Zulka, Isabelle Hansson, Linda Hassing, Valgeir Thorvaldsson
Journal of Research in Personality - 2021 -
I Rate My Memory Quite Similar at Age 40 and at Age 70 Findings in a Swedish Longitudinal Study on Subjective Memory over a 30-Year
Period
Boo Johansson, Marcus Praetorius Björk, Valgeir Thorvaldsson
Geropsych-the Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry - 2020 -
Child maltreatment and substance use related negative consequences – longitudinal trajectories from early to
mid-adolescence
Johan Melander Hagborg, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Claudia Fahlke
Addictive Behaviours - 2020 -
Cholesterol and Cognitive Aging: Between-Person and Within-Person Associations in a Population-Based Representative Sample Not on Lipid-Lowering
Medication
Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Ingmar Skoog, Boo Johansson
Psychology and Aging - 2020 -
Disentangling the Mechanisms of Retirement Adjustment: Determinants and Consequences of Subjective
Well-Being
Isabelle Hansson, Sandra Buratti, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Boo Johansson, Anne Ingeborg Berg
Work, Aging and Retirement - 2020 -
Cognitive Changes When Retiring – Findings from a Swedish Population-based Longitudinal
Study
Linn Elena Zulka, Isabelle Hansson, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Linda Hassing
GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Online Meeting - 2020 -
Disentangling the Mechanisms of Retirement Adjustment: Determinants and Consequences of Subjective
Well-Being
Isabelle Hansson, Sandra Buratti, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Boo Johansson, Anne Ingeborg Berg
International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region Congress (IAGG-ER), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 23-25, 2019 - 2019 -
The Gothenburg H70 Birth cohort study 2014-16: design, methods and study
population.
Therese Rydberg Sterner, Felicia Ahlner, Kaj Blennow, Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff, Hanna Falk, Lena Havstam Johansson, Maria Hoff, Mathias Holm, Helena M Hörder, Tina Jacobsson, Boo Johansson, Lena Johansson, Jürgen Kern, Silke Kern, Alejandra Machado, Madeleine Mellqvist Fässberg, Johan Nilsson, Mats Ribbe, Elisabeth Rothenberg, Lina Rydén, André M. Sadeghi, Simona Sacuiu, Jessica Samuelsson, Robert Sigström, Johan Skoog, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Margda Waern, Eric Westman, Hanna Wetterberg, Henrik Zetterberg, Madeleine Zetterberg, Anna Zettergren, Svante Östling, Ingmar Skoog
European journal of epidemiology - 2019 -
Do later-born birth cohorts of septuagenarians sleep better? A prospective population-based study of two birth cohorts of
70-year-olds.
Johan Skoog, Robert Sigström, Svante Östling, Hanna Falk, Margda Waern, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Ingmar Skoog, Boo Johansson
Sleep - 2019 -
Association of IL1RAP-related genetic variation with cerebrospinal fluid concentration of Alzheimer-associated tau
protein
Anna Zettergren, Kina Höglund, Silke Kern, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Johan Skoog, O. Hansson, N. Andreasen, N. Bogdanovic, Kaj Blennow, Ingmar Skoog, Henrik Zetterberg
Scientific Reports - 2019 -
Subjective Sleep Disturbance is Associated with Cognition: A Study of 70-year-olds Followed over 15
Years
Johan Skoog, Boo Johansson, Ingmar Skoog, Valgeir Thorvaldsson
Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Los Angeles, USA. - 2019 -
Can personality predict longitudinal study attrition? Evidence from a population-based sample of older
adults
Isabelle Hansson, Anne Ingeborg Berg, Valgeir Thorvaldsson
Journal of Research in Personality - 2018 -
Longitudinal Associations between Individual Resources and Life Satisfaction in the Retirement
Transition
Isabelle Hansson, Sandra Buratti, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Boo Johansson, Anne Ingeborg Berg
Nordic Congress of Gerontology (24 NKG), Oslo, Norway, May 2–4, 2018 - 2018 -
Subjective Sleep Disturbance is associated with preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease in Cerebrospinal Fluid in a Population-Based Study of 70-Year-Olds without
dementia.
Johan Skoog, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Silke Kern, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Ingmar Skoog, Boo Johansson
The 24th Nordic Conference of Gerontology, 2-4 May, Oslo, Norge - 2018 -
Terminal Decline as a Generic Model of Cognitive
Aging
Valgeir Thorvaldsson
GSA Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November 14-18, 2018 - 2018 -
Changes in Life Satisfaction in the Retirement Transition: Interaction Effects of Transition Type and Individual
Resources
Isabelle Hansson, Sandra Buratti, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Boo Johansson, Anne Ingeborg Berg
Work, Aging and Retirement - 2018 -
Cohort differences in the association of cardiovascular risk and cognitive
aging
Peter Karlsson, Boo Johansson, Ingmar Skoog, Johan Skoog, Lina Rydén, Valgeir Thorvaldsson
GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry - 2018 -
Parenting programs during adolescence: Outcomes from universal and targeted interventions offered in real-world
settings
Elin Alfredsson, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Ulf Axberg, Anders G Broberg
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology - 2018 -
Alcohol Consumption and Cognitive Aging – a Longitudinal Study across Twenty
Years
Linda Hassing, Linn Elena Zulka, Valgeir Thorvaldsson
GSA 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting, 14 - 18 November, Boston, USA - 2018 -
Poor Sleep Is Associated with CSF-Markers of Alzheimer’s Disease in 70-Year-Olds without
Dementia
Johan Skoog, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Silke Kern, Boo Johansson, Ingmar Skoog, Valgeir Thorvaldsson
2018’s Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Chicago, USA. - 2018 -
Subjective Sleep Disturbance is associated with preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease in Cerebrospinal Fluid in a Population-Based Study of 70-Year-Olds without
dementia
Johan Skoog, Boo Johansson, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Ingmar Skoog, Silke Kern
The 19th congress of the Section of Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), Wien, Österrike. - 2018 -
Disentangling the Mechanisms of Retirement Adjustment: Determinants and Consequences of Subjective
Well-Being
Isabelle Hansson, Sandra Buratti, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Boo Johansson, Anne Ingeborg Berg
GSA Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November 14-18, 2018 - 2018 -
Better Cognition in New Birth Cohorts of 70 Year Olds, But Greater Decline
Thereafter.
Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Peter Karlsson, Johan Skoog, Ingmar Skoog, Boo Johansson
Journal of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences - 2017 -
A Longitudinal Study of the Mini-Mental State Examination in Late Nonagenarians and Its Relationship with Dementia, Mortality, and
Education.
Johan Skoog, Kristoffer Bäckman, Mats Ribbe, Hanna Falk, Pia Gudmundsson, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Anne Börjesson-Hanson, Svante Östling, Boo Johansson, Ingmar Skoog
Journal of The American Geriatrics Society - 2017 -
IQ as Moderator of Terminal Decline in Perceptual and Motor Speed, Spatial, and Verbal Ability: Testing the Cognitive Reserve Hypothesis in a Population-Based Sample Followed From Age 70 Until
Death
Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Ingmar Skoog, Boo Johansson
Psychology and Aging - 2017 -
Psychological health in the retirement transition: Rationale and first findings in the HEalth, Ageing and Retirement Transitions in Sweden (HEARTS)
study
Magnus Lindwall, Anne Ingeborg Berg, Pär Bjälkebring, Sandra Buratti, Isabelle Hansson, Linda Hassing, Georg Henning, Marie Kivi, Stefanie König, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Boo Johansson
Frontiers in Psychology - 2017 -
The relation between subjective sleep disturbance and Amyloid
β.
Johan Skoog, Silke Kern, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Ingmar Skoog, Boo Johansson
IAGG-2017, San Francisco, USA: 23-27 july - 2017 -
A longitudinal study on subjective sleep disturbance and risk of dementia in 85-year-olds followed over 15
years.
Johan Skoog, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Ingmar Skoog, Boo Johansson
Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, Vol. 13, Issue 7, P1043 - 2017 -
Investigation of associations between ILRAP-related genetic variation and CSF-biomarkers of amyloid- and tangle pathology, AD-risk, and cognitive
decline.
Anna Zettergren, Silke Kern, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Johan Skoog, Ingmar Skoog, Oskar Hansson, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Kina Höglund
2017’s Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC), London, Storbritannien: 16-20 July - 2017 -
IQ as a Moderator of Cognitive Terminal Decline: Testing the Cognitive Reserve
Hypothesis
Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Ingmar Skoog, Boo Johansson
The Gerontologist - A Supplement to The Gerontologist: 2016 GSA Annual Scientific Meeting - 2016 -
Birth cohort differences in the effects of cardiovascular risk factors on fluid cognition in old
age
Peter Karlsson, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Boo Johansson
Program abstracts of the 23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology, 19–22 June, Tampere, Finland - 2016 -
Assessment of cognitive performance online: A first report from the “Health, Aging and Retirement Transition in Sweden” – HEARTS
Study
Georg Henning, Pär Bjälkebring, Anne Ingeborg Berg, Sandra Buratti, Linda Hassing, Marie Kivi, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Magnus Lindwall, Boo Johansson
Third International Conference on Aging & Cognition. Dortmund, Germany, 23-25 April. - 2015 -
Birth cohort differences in fluid cognition in old age: Comparisons of trends in levels and change trajectories over 30 years in three population-based
samples
Peter Karlsson, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Ingmar Skoog, Pia Gudmundsson, Boo Johansson
Psychology and Aging - 2015 -
Retest and practice
effects
Valgeir Thorvaldsson
The encyclopedia of adulthood and aging - 2015 -
Secular changes and cognitive development in old
age
Valgeir Thorvaldsson
The Horizons for Comparative and Integrative Research on Ageing and Health meeting - 2015 -
Secular changes in the association of a vascular health index and cognition in old
age
Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Peter Karlsson, Boo Johansson
68th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Socieity of America - 2015 -
Gender Differences in Cognitive Performance in Old Age: Adjusting for
Longevity
Marcus Praetorius, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Boo Johansson, Linda Hassing
GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry - 2014 -
Levels of Homocysteine and Trajectories of Cognitive Function in a Longitudinal Population-based
Study
Linda Hassing, Anne Ingeborg Berg, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Boo Johansson
GSA Washington DC – Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting - 2014 -
Birth cohort differences in cognitive aging: Secular trends in levels of functioning and rates of change over 30 years in a population-based Swedish
sample
Peter Karlsson, Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Ingmar Skoog, Boo Johansson
22NKG Gothenburg – 22nd Nordic Congress of Gerontology - 2014
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