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.
News
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Health and medicineLisa Dinkler now assistant professor at KarolinskaInstitutet
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Health and medicineGNCs Martyna Galazka has been appointed SeniorLecturer
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Health and medicineMaj-Britt Posserud -scientific journals' most dowloaded article(2022)
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Education and learningGNC PhD students receivefunding
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Health and medicineDarko Sarovic is now postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard MedicalSchool
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A novel tablet-based motor coordination test performs on par with the Beery VMI subtest and offers superior temporal metrics: findings from children with pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome, Experimental Brain Research (2023).
Discrepancy between high non-verbal intelligence and low accuracy at reading emotional expressions in the eyes reflects the magnitude of social-emotional difficulties in autism, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience (2023)
Is WISC-IV Working Memory Index associated with ADHD symptoms in 7-8-year-olds? Applied Neuropsychology, Child (2023)
Developmental language disorders in preschool children after high exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances from contaminated drinking water in Ronneby, Sweden, Environmental Epidemilogy, (2023)
Autism under the umbrella of ESSENCE. Frontiers in Psychiatry, (2023)
Intergenerational links between childhood maltreatment and health outcomes in offspring. Lancet, (2023)
ESSENCE diagnoses
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (External link)
- ADHD (External link)
- Language Disorder/DLD
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (External link)
- Anorexia nervosa (External link)
- Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (External link)
- PANS and PANDAS (External link)
- Mild intellectual disability (External link)
- All diagnoses (External link)
Our research programmes
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