Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre
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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.
- Children born to parents with mild intellectual disability: Register-based follow-up of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diagnoses and out-of-home placements
- Speech sound error patterns may signal language disorder in Swedish preschool children with autism
- Cognitive functioning in adult psychiatric patients with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
- Association Between Autism and PTSD Among Adult Psychiatric Outpatients.
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News
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Health and medicineSwedish Study Shows Adolescent Anorexia Disrupts Long-Term BMI Patterns
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Health and medicineNEW THESIS: New methods shed light on social and motor coordination in individuals with ESSENCE
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Health and medicineNew Study Unearths Link Between PTSD in Adults with Autism
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Health and medicineNew Swedish Study Highlights Link Between Epilepsy and Language Difficulties in Children
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Health and medicineProfessor Christopher Gillberg has been awarded the prestigious Hilda and Alfred Eriksson’s Prize
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Health and medicineStudy reveals a link between autism traits in children and pupil size contagion
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Health and medicineChristopher Gillberg awarded prize in the spirit of Arvid Carlsson
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Sustainability and environmentLong-term medication for ADHD shown to improve daily functioning
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Press releaseArvid Carlsson Award 2024
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Health and medicineUlrika Schachinger Lorentzon successfully defends her thesis
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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
Published work
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