Axel Davies Vittersø

Axel is an associate professor in cognitive psychology.

Research area

• Pain
• Chronic pain
• Sensorimotor processing
• Bodily and spatial representations

Research Profile

Axel’s background is in cognitive/neuro psychology. His research has largely focused on how pain can influence sensorimotor processing. He is particularly interested in how people use sensory information to create bodily and spatial representations, and how these processes can be altered in certain clinical populations, such as people with chronic pain. 

Education

2020 Ph.D., University of Bath, Bath, UK, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, & GW4BioMed Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership

2016 MSc, Health psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UK

2015 BSc, Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UK
 

Positions

2021 - Associate Professor in Psychology, Oslo New University College, Oslo, Norway 
2021 - Honorary Research Fellow, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2021 - Honorary Research Fellow, University of Bath, Bath, UK 
2020 - Visiting Researcher, AttentionLab, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2020 - Visiting Researcher/Transition to Postdoc, L.A.B. lab, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Teaching

2021 - Oslo New University College, MSc in Cognition & Technology
2021 - Oslo New University College, BSc in Psychology
2017 - University of Bath, MSc in Health Psychology, MSc in Clinical Psychology
2016 - University of Bath, BSc in Psychology
 

Awards

2020 - Godfrey & Sue Hall PGR Prize/University of Bath PhD Student of the Year: Shortlisted
2019 - GW4 Early Career Neuroscientist Day: Best oral prize presentation
2017 - 3 Minute Thesis, GW4 BioMed MRC DTP: 1st place

Selected publications:

• Vittersø, A.D., Buckingham, G., Ten Brink, A.F., Halicka, M., Proulx, M.J., & Bultitude, J.H. (in press). Characterising sensorimotor adaptation in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Cortex.
• Ten Brink, A.F., Halicka, M., Vittersø, A.D, Jones, H.J., Stanton, T.R., & Bultitude, J.H. (in press) Validation of the Bath CRPS Body Perception Disturbance Scale. The Journal of Pain.
• Ten Brink, A.F., Halicka, M., Vittersø, A.D, Keogh, E., & Bultitude, J.H. (2021). Ignoring space around a painful limb? No evidence for a body-related visuospatial attention bias in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome? Cortex.
• Halicka, M., Vittersø, A.D., McCullough, H., Goebel, A., Heelas, L., Proulx, M.J., & Bultitude, J.H. (2021). Prism adaptation treatment for upper-limb Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: a double-blind randomized controlled trial. Pain.
• Vittersø, A.D., Buckingham, G., Halicka, M., Proulx, M.J., & Bultitude, J.H. (2020). Altered updating of bodily and spatial representations following tool-use in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Pain.
• Halicka, M., Vittersø, A.D., McCullough, H., Goebel, A., Heelas, L., Proulx, M.J., & Bultitude, J.H. (2020). Disputing space-based biases in unilateral Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Cortex.
• Vittersø, A.D., Halicka, M., Buckingham, G., Proulx, M.J., & Bultitude, J.H. (2019). Experimentally induced pain does not influence updating of peripersonal space and body representations following tool-use. PLOS ONE.
• Vittersø, A.D., Keogh, E., & Gauntlett-Gilbert, J. (2018). Reasons for treatment non-response: a controlled study of patients’ views in pain rehabilitation. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.

OUTREACH
•    Twitter: @AVitterso
•    Open Science: OSF profile
•    Publications: Google Scholar