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.
News
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Health and medicineProfessor Gillberg receives substantial ALF funding for Gothenburg Autism Project
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Health and medicineStudy Reveals Autism Intervention Program Enhances Child Outcomes and Empowers Parents
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Health and medicineLanguage Disorder Persists for Many Young Children reveals Gothenburg Study
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Health and medicineDr. Johan Nyrenius awarded substantial funding grant for new project on Catatonia.
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Health and medicineECIDD 2025, Gothenburg, Sweden
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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