I am a PhD and Clinical Neuropsychologist working on cognitive functioning in depression as a postdoctoral fellow at UiB. My research interests include clinical neuropsychology in general, and cognitive functioning in psychiatric disorders in particular. Specifically, I am interested in the relationship between affective material, emotional regulation, processing speed, executive functions and psychiatric symptoms and how to improve these. Interventions for improving or remediating cognition, such as working memory training, were a significant part of my graduate work, and I am currently involved in research on treatment resistance and neurostimulation. I also teach clinical neuropsychology at UiB, with a particular focus on dementias, learning disorders, epilepsy, and the Wechsler tests of general ability.

I have clinical experience from gerontopsychiatry, where I assessed various forms of dementia and neuropsychiatric illnesses, and child habilitation, where I assessed learning disorders related to developmental and neurological conditions in children and adolescents. I became a specialist in clinical psychology with a sub-specialization in clinical neuropsychology in the spring of 2020. During my PhD, I worked part-time as a neuropsychologist at an outpatient clinic for affective disorders at Sandviken Psychiatric Clinic. From autumn 2023 to spring 2024, I worked full-time as a neuropsychologist at the Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital.

Academic article

• Eivind Haga Ronold; Jutta Joormann; Åsa Karin Hammar (2022). Computerized Working Memory Training in Remission From Major Depressive Disorder: Effects on Emotional Working Memory, Processing Speed, Executive Functions, and Associations With Symptoms. (external link)
• Kordian Staniszewski; Eivind Haga Ronold; Åsa Karin Hammar et al. (2023). Neurocognitive Functioning in Patients with Painful Temporomandibular Disorders. (external link)
• Eivind Haga Ronold; Marit Therese Schmid; Ketil Joachim Ødegaard et al. (2020). A longitudinal 5-year follow-up study of cognitive function after first episode major depressive disorder: Exploring state, scar and trait effects. (external link)
• Hossein Malekizadeh; Omid Saed; Alireza Rashtbari et al. (2023). Deficits in specific executive functions manifest by severity in major depressive disorder: a comparison of antidepressant naïve inpatient, outpatient, subclinical, and healthy control groups. (external link)
• Eivind Haga Ronold; Silje Klundelien Storfossen; Marta Vikingstad Vignes et al. (2025). A Secondary Analysis of Longitudinal Pilot-Study Data Investigating the Associations Between Health-Related Quality of Life and Executive Functions in Remitted Major Depressive Disorder and Developments Two-Years Following Cognitive Training. (external link)
• Leila Marie Frid; Ute Kessler; Olga Therese Ousdal et al. (2023). Neurobiological mechanisms of ECT and TMS treatment in depression: study protocol of a multimodal magnetic resonance investigation. (external link)
• Marit Therese Schmid; Eivind Haga Ronold; Maiken Løchen et al. (2025). Verbal memory in major depressive disorder in a long-term perspective: a five-year longitudinal study of first episode patients. (external link)
• Eivind Haga Ronold; Rune Raudeberg (2025). Self-reported cognitive functioning on the behavior rating inventory of executive function in psychotic disorders: Effects of gender, education and cognitive functioning. (external link)
• Åsa Karin Hammar; Eivind Haga Ronold; Malene Alden Spurkeland et al. (2024). Improvement of persistent impairments in executive functions and attention following electroconvulsive therapy in a case control longitudinal follow up study. (external link)
• Eivind Haga Ronold; Sunniva Brurok Myklebost; Åsa Karin Hammar (2023). Improvement in self-reported cognitive functioning but not in rumination following online working memory training in a two-year follow-up study of remitted major depressive disorder. (external link)
• Åsa Hammar; Maria Semkovska; Ida Maria Henriksen Borgen et al. (2020). A pilot study of cognitive remediation in remitted major depressive disorder patients. (external link)
• Eivind Haga Ronold; Jutta Joormann; Åsa Hammar (2019). Facing recovery: Emotional bias in working memory, rumination, relapse, and recurrence of major depression; an experimental paradigm conducted five years after first episode of major depression. (external link)
• Kenneth J. D. Allen; Matthew V. Elliott; Eivind Haga Ronold et al. (2025). The Memory and Affective Flexibility Task: a new behavioral tool to assess neurocognitive processes implicated in emotion-related impulsivity and internalizing symptoms. (external link)
• Sunniva Brurok Myklebost; Tine Nordgreen; Eivind Haga Ronold et al. (2025). Predictors of Improvement in Subjective Executive Functioning Following an Internet‐Delivered Cognitive Enhancement Intervention for Adults in Remission From Depression. (external link)

Professional article

• Eivind Haga Ronold; Kathe Elise Skagen; Else Saksvik Wilhelmsen et al. (2017). Behandlingsforløp ved NKS Olaviken alderpsykiatriske sykehus - Hva gjør vi?. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Eivind Haga Ronold (2019). Cognition in remission from Major Depression – Longitudinal outcomes and novel targets for treatment?. (external link)

Conference poster

• Eivind Haga Ronold; Åsa Karin Hammar; Guro Årdal Rekkedal (2021). Cognitive deficits and neurocognitive profiles in major depression – Clinical Perspectives, targets for Treatment, Prevention, and Potential Consequences for Aging. (external link)
• Eivind Haga Ronold; Jutta Joormann; Åsa Karin Hammar (2019). Does Working Memory Training Improve Emotional Working Memory. (external link)
• Eivind Haga Ronold; Jutta Joormann; Ketil Joachim Ødegaard et al. (2018). Emotional Working Memory and Depression. (external link)
• Eivind Haga Ronold; Åsa Karin Hammar (2022). Age and Computerized Working Memory Training in Remitted MDD. (external link)
• Eivind Haga Ronold; Else Saksvik Wilhelmsen (2017). Kan strukturerte behandlingsforløp forbedre oversikt, samarbeid og oppfølging av pasienter på et alderspsykiatrisk sykehus?. (external link)
• Eivind Haga Ronold; Sunniva Brurok Myklebost; Åsa Karin Hammar (2022). Comparing Effects of Digital Interventions Targeting Residual Cognitive Symptoms Following MDD in a Two-Year Follow-up - Effects on Rumination and Subjective EF.. (external link)
• Sunniva Brurok Myklebost; Oda S. Stakkestad; Eivind Haga Ronold et al. (2022). Two-year outcomes of an internet-delivered intervention targeting residual cognitive symptoms after depression.. (external link)

Academic literature review

• August Peter Merok Lullau; Emily Marie Weierud Haga; Eivind Haga Ronold et al. (2023). Antidepressant mechanisms of ketamine: a review of actions with relevance to treatment-resistance and neuroprogression. (external link)
• Åsa Karin Hammar; Eivind Haga Ronold; Guro Årdal Rekkedal (2022). Cognitive Impairment and Neurocognitive Profiles in Major Depression—A Clinical Perspective. (external link)

Study protocol

• Eivind Haga Ronold; Daniel Jensen; Anders Lillevik Thorsen et al. (2025). Cognitive deficits in treatment-resistant depression: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. (external link)
• K.J.D. Allen; Matthew V. Elliott; Eivind Haga Ronold et al. (2025). Cognitive Training for Emotion-Related Impulsivity and Rumination: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial. (external link)

Conference abstract

• Eivind Haga Ronold; Marit Therese Schmid; Åsa Karin Hammar (2021). Risk Factors and Cognitive Deficits in First Episode Major Depression: A Five-Year Longitudinal Study of Explorative Subgroups. (external link)

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