Background and activities

Member of research group for perinatal brain injury at Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine.

Work experience covers clinical work in hospital and community based habilitation/rehabilitation in young infants and children, follow-up of high-risk infants, research activities particular in movement analysis in young infants and translational research, as well as teaching and supervision of medical, physical therapist, human movement science and computer engineer students.

Lars Adde (PT, PhD), is responsible for the In-Motion concept at St. Olavs hospital and NTNU, assessing infant spontaneous movements for the early detection of perinatal brain injury and prediction of Cerebral Palsy. He has more than 22 years’ clinical and research experience working with diagnostics and treatment at the Neonatal Infant Care Unit (NICU) and from follow-up programs in specialized healthcare. He leads an interdisciplinary research team comprising physiotherapists, neonatologists, pediatricians, human movement scientist’s and computer engineers, using clinical assessment tools, Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and Deep learning for automated tracking of spontaneous infant movements from videos and development of models for prediction of later functional outcomes.

The In-Motion team‘s main clinical studies cover multisite international studies in Norway, Denmark, USA, Belgium, China, India, and Turkey. Lars is also responsible for an ongoing implementation study of early remote risk assessment for cerebral palsy for all high-risk infants in The Central Norway Regional Health Authority during the period 2019- 2024.  

Lars graduated as a physiotherapist at Oslo University College in 1986 and the degree of PhD in Clinical Medicine at NTNU in Trondheim in 2010. He is currently responsible for all In-Motion medical research activities at St. Olavs hospital and NTNU.

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Overview of Publications:

Author

Peer reviewed papers

Peer reviewed abstracts with oral presentations

Peer reviewed abstracts with posters

Invited speaker at conferences

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13

 

First author

7

13

7

 

27

Co-author

20

9

26

 

55

Last author

9

9

11

 

29

Total

36

31

46

 

113

Scientific, academic and artistic work

A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database

Journal publications