Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre

World-leading international research centre in the field of ESSENCE (neurodevelopmental disorders) with its main hub in Sweden.

The GNC at Sahlgrenska Academy is a platform for conducting research aimed at developing and establishing new methods for early intervention, examination, investigation and intervention/treatment in the fields of neuropsychiatry and developmental neurology ("ESSENCE", i.e. Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examinations). World-leading research is currently being conducted at the GNC on for example autism, ADHD, motor abnormalities, tics and obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders and conduct disorders.

ESSENCE CONFERENCE 2023

ESSENCE 2023 to be held in hybrid format from 3-5 April 2023 Cape Town, South Africa.

Current news

A summary of our latest news, forthcoming events, and more!

Resources

New! Observation in preschool children protocol

Gunilla Westman Andersson explains why exactly observation of children in preschool setting is used in research.

News

Health and medicine
GNC's Clare Allely appointed as a Professor of Forensic
Psychology
Health and medicine
Mats Johnson is now Associate
Professor!
Health and medicine
Kahoko Yasumitsu-Lovell's half-time control to take place 9th November
2021
Health and medicine
David Eberhard's half-time control to take place 11th November
2021
Event
Maria Davidsson's half-time control to take place 25th November
2021

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news

Evenemang

Start date 3 Apr 2023 Multiple dates

Health and medicine
ESSENCE 2023 - 2nd International
Conference

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events

"RARE" disorders in child and adult psychiatry

New blog by Dejan Stevanovic

11 things we now know about ARFID

Lisa Dinkler gives us a summary of what we currently know about the eating disturbance ARFID.

News – 4 March 2021

New book by Christopher Gillberg

Out now!

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Research story/portrait

The Autism, Tics–ADHD and other Comorbidities inventory (A–TAC), Validity,…

We meet up with GNCs Caroline Mårland who discusses her newly published thesis on the A-TAC.

Research story/portrait

Neurodevelopmental disorders (ESSENCE): – Early detection and outcome in…

Valdemar Landgren gives us an overview of his doctoral studies which focus on ESSENCE in adulthood.

Newly published articles

ASD with ADHD vs. ASD and ADHD alone: a study of the QbTest performance and single-dose methylphenidate responding in children and adolescents BMC Psychiatry (2022)

Paediatric Acute onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome: Exploratory study finds no evidence of HLA class II association but high rate of autoimmunity in first-degree relatives. Acta Paediatrica (2022).

A PRISMA systematic review of adolescent gender dysphoria literature: 1) Epidemiology PLOS Global Public Health (2022).

Data-driven analysis of gaze patterns in face perception: Methodological and clinical contributions, Cortex (2022).

Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Adult Outpatient Psychiatry, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (2022).

Universal language development screening: comparative performance of two questionnaires, BMJ Paediatrics (2022).

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