Egil Fors
Position: Associate Professor MD PhD, Department of Neuromedicine, Faculty of Medicine,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Adress: Department of Pain and Complex Disorders, St Olavs Hospital Eirik Jarlsgt. 10, 7006 Trondheim
E-mail: egil.a.fors@ntnu.no
Phone: +47 73868766, Mobile +47 41236597
Research areas: Chronic pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, medical and psychological treatment of complex disorders, cognitive behavioural therapy, psychosomatic medicine, consultation & liason psychiatry.
Publications:
1) Original report: E Fors: “Effekt av Paralgin forte kombinert med ulike kognitive strategier på laboratorieinduserte smerter”. Psychiatric Dept. press (NTNU), 1984, Trondheim (in Norwegian)
2) Original article:D Berntzen, E Fors & K G Götestam: Effect of an analgesic drug (Paralgin forte) upon laboratory pain under different cognitive manipulations. An experimental study. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. 1985;72:30‑35
3) Original article: E. Fors: “Kroniske smerter”, “Chronic pain” Diskriminanten, 4, 4-11, 1991 (in Norwegian)
4) Original article: E Fors & K G Götestam: The accuracy of memory for acute pain induction: An experimental study. International Journal of Rehabilitation and Health.1996;2:253-263
5) Original article: E Fors & K G Götestam: Patient education, guided imagery and pain related talk in fibromyalgia coping. European Journal of Psychiatry 2000;14:233-240 (anonymous peer-reviewed article)
6) Original article: E Fors, H Sexton & KG Götestam: The effect of guided imageries and amitriptyline on daily fibromyalgic pain: a prospective, randomized, controlled trial. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 2002;36:179-187.(anonymous peer-reviewed article)
7) Original article: E Fors & H Sexton: Weather and pain in fibromyalgia: are they related? Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2002; 61 (3): 247-250 (anonymous peer-reviewed article)
8) Original thesis (book): E Fors: Non-malignant pain in relation to psychological and environmental factors. Tapir, Trondheim: 2002 (Doctorate thesis)
9) L Bradley, M Cohen & E Fors: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. IASP Press, Procedings of the 10th World Congress of Pain, 2003;24: 865-877 (Book-chapter from the workshop in the 10th World Congress of Pain).
10) Gerhard Nesheim & Egil A Fors: “Psykosomatiske symptomer og psykosomatisk lidelse (booklet); Lundbeck 2007.
11) Original article: Kari H. Moen, Hjørdis K. Bakke, Øyvind Bakke, Egil A. Fors. Preschool children’s sickness absenteeism from Norwegian regular and outdoor day care centres. A comparative study. Scandinavian J of Public Health (Scandinavian J of Public Health 2007)
12) Original article: T Landmark, E Fors, T Stiles, NI Landrø & Petter Borchgrevink: ”Defence mechanisms in fibromyalgia vs. major depression and healthy controls”. 2008: Eur J of Psychiatry.
13) Original article: Borchgrevink, Petter Chr.; Fredheim, Olav Magnus; Fors, Egil Andreas; Holen, Are; Stiles, Tore C. Hva er sammensatte lidelser?. Tidsskrift for den norske legeforening 2009 ;Volum 129.(13) s. 1368-1368
14) Juvet, Lene Kristine; Elvsaas, Ida-Kristin Ø; Leivseth, Gunnar; Anker, Gun; Bertheussen, Gro Falkener; Falkmer, Ursula; Fors, Egil Andreas; Lundgren, Steinar; Oldervoll, Line Merethe; Thune, Inger. Rehabilitation of breast cancer patients. Oslo: Nasjonalt kunnskapssenter for helsetjenesten 2009 (ISBN 978-82-8121-253-4) 136 s. Rapport fra Kunnskapssenteret(02-2009).
15) Original article: Halvard K. Nilsen, Nils I. Landrø, Egil A. Fors , Tore C. Stiles, Stein Kaasa, & Petter C. Borchgrevink: ”Patients with problematic opioid use can be weaned from codeine without pain escalation”. Acta Anesthesiological Scandinavica (in press 2009).
16) Original article: Egil A Fors, Tormod Landmark, Lawrence Bradley & Øyvind Bakke: Outcome and predictors of pain after 14 years in a fibromyalgia cohort following attention strategy interventions. The Clinical J of Pain (submitted 2009).