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Gillberg's blog
Welcome to the world's first ESSENCE blog!
Each week Christopher Gillberg and his team of experts offer their opinions on the latest happenings in the world of neuropsychiatry and mental health (ESSENCE). We do hope you enjoy our blog and we hope you find our thoughts interesting.
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The third wave [Posted on 18th March 2024 by Valdemar Landgren]
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Research on PFAS in Ronneby - Increased risk of language disorder in girls [Posted on 1st August 2023 by Carmela Miniscalco]
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"RARE DISORDERS" in child and adult psychiatry [Posted on 1st November 2022 by Christopher Gillberg]
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11 things we now know about ARFID [Posted on 31st August 2022 by Lisa Dinkler]
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A shared wholeness [Posted on 24th August 2022 by Ben Truter]
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Gaming: The good, the bad, and the ESSENCE [Posted on 13 April 2022 by Dejan Stevanovic]
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"See the bigger picture" [Posted on 23rd November, 2021 by Johan Nyrenius]
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Please, put sleep on the agenda! (Part 3) [Posted on 23rd November, 2021 by Maj-Britt Posserud]
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Please, put sleep on the agenda! (Part 2) [Posted on 2nd November 2021 by Helen Minnis]
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Please, put sleep on the agenda! [Posted on 27th October 2021 by Maj-Britt Posserud]
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Let's not leap to conclusions [Posted on 5th October 2021 by Helen Minnis]
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The relationship between Cyber-Dependent Crime and ASD needs further investigation [Posted on 27 July 2021 by Clare Allely]
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Aetiology and function [Posted on 23 June, 2021, by Magnus Påhlman]
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Therapy in the virtual world: a view on social interaction and new technologies [Posted on 18 March 2021 by Martyna Galazka-Carney & Max Thorsson]
- Children also have brains [Posted on 25 February 2021 by Ola Skjeldal]
- Child- and adolescent psychiatry – past, present and future [Posted on 17 December 2020 by Geir Øgrim]
- Won’t somebody please think of the adults? [Posted on 4 November 2020 by Gunilla Westman Andersson]
- Can autonomy become neglect? [Posted on 15 October 2020 by Lena Nylander]
- What have twin studies taught us about ESSENCE conditions *? [Posted on 19 August 2020 by Lisa Dinkler]
- Missed appointments – what do they signify and do they matter? [Posted on 7 May 2020 by Phil Wilson]
- Defendants with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Courtroom: Considerations and Implications [Posted on 4 March 2020 by Clare Allely]
- What is happening to autism diagnoses – and why? [Posted on 4 February, 2020 by Lena Nylander]
- From ‘Aphasia voluntaria’ to ‘Selective Mutism’ [Posted on 15 January, 2020 by Eva Kocovska]
- Diagnosing intellectual disability [Posted on 23 October, 2019 by Bibbi Hagberg & Eva Billstedt]
- Language disorders and autism – what is what or is it both? [Posted on 7 October, 2019 by Carmela Miniscalco]
- Anorexia Nervosa Genome-Wide Association Study Reveals Metabo-Psychiatric Origins: Personal Reflections of the Lead Principal Investigator [Posted on 25 September 2019 by Cynthia Bulik]
- Can Movement Identify Neuropsychiatric Disorder? [Posted on 10 September 2019 by Jonathan Delafield-Butt]
- Dean Falk versus Herwig Czech: Asperger was not a Nazi [Posted on 26 August 2019 by Christopher Gillberg]
- Cut the crap! [Posted on 19 August 2019 by David Eberhard]
- Fire-setting and Arson in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder [Posted on 13 August 2019 by Clare Allely]
- Bullies [Posted on 26 June 2019 by Jakob Åsberg Johnels]
- Create opportunities in daily activities for toddlers with autism [Posted on 12 June 2019 by Petra Linnsand and Gudrun Nygren]
- ADHD Likely Reduces Estimated Life Expectancy by Young Adulthood [Posted on 22 May 2019 by Russell Barkley]
- Diagnosing diversity [Posted on 13 May 2019 by Geir Øgrim]
- Personality disorder – real or unreal? [Posted on 6 May 2019 by Christopher Gillberg]
- Mirror, mirror on the wall, can touch cause my self-esteem to fall? [Posted on 10 April 2019 by Louise Karjalainen]
- Whose shoes? [Posted on 2 April 2019 by Nouchine Hadjikhani]
- Impaired or different? [Posted on 27 March 2019 by Maj-Britt Posserud]
- Help me. I’m a parent! [Posted on 18 March 2019 by Helen Minnis]
- What do you know about autism? [Posted on 13 March 2019 by Darko Sarovic]
- Help kids who miss school! [Posted on 19 February 2019 by Mats Johnson]
- Siblings of children with autism – heroes with needs of their own [Posted on 12 February 2019 by Gunilla Westman Andersson]
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and ESSENCE: a complex story [Posted on 5 February 2019 by Louise Marryat]
- A good life for adults with autism and intellectual disability [Posted on 29 January 2019 by Lena Nylander]
- Trauma in Autism Spectrum Disorders [Posted on 22 January 2019 by Clare Allely]
- What is a syndrome, really? [Posted on 18 January 2019 by Ola Skjeldal]
- Autism Spectrum Disorders and Psychotherapy [Posted on 16 October 2018 by Adam Helles]
- Cannabis is riding high – won’t someone please think of the children? [Posted on 9 October 2018 by Magnus Landgren]
- Gone baby gone [Posted on 2 October, 2018 by Christopher Gillberg]
- Why ESSENCE is essential [Posted on 25 September, 2018 by David Eberhard]
- We need to talk about intelligence [Posted on 18 September 2018 by Ida Lindblad]
- Do autism and anorexia nervosa have any eating behaviours in common? [Posted on 11 September 2018 by Louise Karjalainen]
- National Guidelines [Posted on 4 September 2018 by Christopher Gillberg]
- The role of autism symptomatology in certain specific child pornography offences [Posted on 28 August 2018 by Clare Allely]
- Don’t forget-Tourette! [Posted on 21 August 2018 by Geir Øgrim]
- Behaviour 2.0 [Posted on 14 August 2018 by Martyna Galazka-Carney]
- Let’s dance – joy in movement without demands on performance [Posted on 7 August 2018 by Elisabeth Fernell]
- A response to the book Asperger’s Children by Edith Sheffer [Posted on 31 July 2018 Walter Heijder]
- Mind the Gap [Posted on 24 July 2018 by Phil Wilson]
- Can we break out of our academic comfort zone? [Posted on 17 July 2018 by Lucy Thompson]
- Can lack of babbling predict ESSENCE? [Posted on 10 July 2018 by Carmela Miniscalco]
- Summer, summer, summertime [Posted on 3 July 2018 by Eva Billstedt]
- Think of our schools as nursery gardens [Posted on 26 June 2018 by Mats Johnson]
- Hans Asperger and his syndrome [Posted on 19 June 2018 by Christopher Gillberg]
- Hey kid!! [Posted 12 June 2018 by Gunilla Westman Andersson]
- Moving and minds [Posted on 5 June 2018 by Jonathan Delafield-Butt]
- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler! [Posted on 29 May 2018 by Jakob Åsberg Johnels]
- Mind and body [Posted on 22 May 2018 by Maj-Britt Posserud]
- Children with autism grow up, adults with autism grow old [Posted on 15 May 2018 by Lena Nylander]
- Let our patients develop and mature in their own time! [Posted on 7 May 2018 by Anne-Katrin Kantzer]
- Hypersensitivity — fashion but not (yet) science [Posted on 27 March 2018 by Christopher Gillberg]
- Measuring autism in girls and boys [Posted on 20 March 2018 by Sebastian Lundström]
- Genes – future scenarios [Posted on 14 March 2018 by Geir Øgrim]
- Psychologists and psychiatrists have to work together [Posted on 6 March 2018 by David Eberhard]
- Sexual Offending Behaviours: Urgent Need for ‘Autism Sensitive Risk Assessment Guide [Posted on 27 February 2018 by Clare Allely]
- Students with poor mental health: The student health team should be the very first line of support [Posted on 20 February 2018 by Christopher Gillberg, Elisabeth Fernell, Joakim Westerlund & Karin Amrén]
- PATHOLOGICAL/EXTREME DEMAND AVOIDANCE (PDA/EDA) [Posted on 14 February 2018 by Christopher Gillberg]
- ADHD in girls -an historical review focusing on the 1990’s [Posted on 7 February 2018 by Svenny Kopp]
- The search for etiological diagnoses [Posted on 30 January 2018 by Ola Skjeldal]
- Confusing empathy [Posted on 23 January 2018 by Nouchine Hadjikhani]
- Black or white [Posted on 16 January 2018 by Eva Billstedt]
- Diagnosis and the problem of how we view knowledge [Posted on 9 January 2018 by Magnus Landgren]
- Gone Asperger Gone? [Posted on 5 December 2017 by Christopher Gillberg]
- Can one have autism without anyone noticing? [Posted on 28 November 2017 by Lena Nylander]
- We need to talk about suicide [Posted on 21 November 2017 by Adam Helles]
- Children of mothers with mild intellectual disability: What do we know? What are we doing? [Posted on 14 November 2017 by Ida Lindblad]
- Taking Autism Apart [Posted on 7 November 2017 by Lynn Waterhouse]
- Focus on the child in front of you, today [Posted on 31 October 2017 by Lucy Thompson]
- Child Health Checks: why do we do them? [Posted on 24 October 2017 by Phil Wilson]
- Promoting mental health in childhood through gender diversity awareness [Posted on 17 October 2017 by Inês Sousa]
- The sun is shining, not burning, in the sky [Posted on 10 October 2017 by Christopher Gillberg]
- Special educators in health care services – YES PLEASE! [Posted on 3 October 2017 by Gunilla Westman Andersson]
- ESSENCE or trauma? [Posted on 26 September 2017 by Geir Øgrim]
- One with nature? [Posted on 19 September 2017 by Jakob Åsberg Johnels]
- Is the brain part of the body? [Posted on 12 September 2017 by Elisabeth Fernell]
- “Carmela’s way” [Posted on 5 September 2017 by Carmela Miniscalco]
- The increase in autism prevalence [Publicerat 29 augusti 2017 av Sebastian Lundström]
- We are such klutzes [Posted on 22 August 2017 by Christopher Gillberg]
- Autistic Pride [Posted on 15 August 2017 by Maj-Britt Posserud]
- Help families find their way around the health care maze – rebuild the system! [Posted on 8 August 2017 by Mats Johnson]
- Reality fragmented [Posted on 3 August 2017 by Christopher Gillberg]
- Eye-to-eye [Posted on 25 July 2017 by Nouchine Hadjikhani]
- Lone Wolf Terrorism: Vulnerabilities and Risks in Autism [Posted on 18 July 2017 by Clare Allely]
- A one-armed or two-armed school psychologist, that is the question? [Posted on 4 July 2017 by Eva Billstedt]
- The Magic Flute – on the difficulty of getting diagnosis and treatment right [Posted on 27 June 2017 by Anne-Katrin Kantzer]
- Stop saying neuropsychiatry?! [Posted on 20 June 2017 by Lena Nylander]
- All that glitters is not gold [Posted on 13 June 2017 by Christopher Gillberg]
- Biomarkers can lead to better treatment [Posted on 6 June 2017 by David Eberhard]
- Succeeding in school! [Posted on 30 May 2017 by Ida Lindblad]
- Is Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) a real disorder? [Posted on 23 May 2017 by Christopher Gillberg]
- Patient-oriented care – All talk and no action? [Posted on 16 May 2017 by Nanna Gillberg]
- Urgent Need for an Autism Screening Tool which is not Male-Biased [Posted on 9 May 2017 by Clare Allely]
- Stop the religious belief in ADI/ADOS! [Posted on 2 May 2017 by Christopher Gillberg]
- “Together we are strong”… or perhaps just on our own? [Posted on 25 April 2017 by Gunilla Westman Andersson]
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One size fits all? -personalised medicine [Posted on 18 April 2017 by Geir Øgrim]
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Normal is way overrated [Posted on 11 April, 2017 by Christopher Gillberg]
The purpose of the blog is to provide information and raise awareness concerning important issues. All views and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not necessarily shared by the GNC.