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.

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News – 14 March 2024

Arvid Carlsson Award 2024

The Arvid Carlsson Foundation has decided to award Christopher Gillberg at the University of Gothenburg the foundation's…

The third wave

Adult psychiatry confronts growing demands for diagnoses of autism and ADHD, a task complicated by comorbidities and…

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Arvid Carlsson Award
2024
Health and medicine
Ulrika Schachinger Lorentzon successfully defends her
thesis
Health and medicine
“Treating Autism with Bumetanide” - New book co-authored by GNCs Nouchine Hadjikhani -
Health and medicine
GNCs Louise Marryat receives major drug study funding to help children “fulfil their
potential”
Health and medicine
Eva Billstedt has been awarded 2,134,000 Swedish krona in research funding for the project 'Children with autism grow
up'.
Health and medicine
Petra Linnsand successfully defends her thesis
Health and medicine
Autism a greater problem now than before? On autism, school performance and mental health issues over
time
Health and medicine
Linda Häger successfully defends her
thesis
Health and medicine
Lisa Dinkler now assistant professor at Karolinska
Institutet
Health and medicine
GNCs Martyna Galazka has been appointed Senior
Lecturer

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Research story/portrait

Exploring Gender Dysphoria: Insights from Dr. Lucy Thompson's Research Findings

Dr. Lucy Thompson elucidates the diagnosis Gender Dysphoria (GD), offering a comprehensive overview and summarising the…

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Diagnostics and treatment of Paediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome …

Interview with Parisa Hajjari Zhao, a doctoral student at GNC specialising in treatment and diagnostics in PANS/PANDAS

"RARE" disorders in child and adult psychiatry

New blog by Dejan Stevanovic

News – 4 March 2021

New book by Christopher Gillberg

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Autism in adult psychiatry outpatients

Follow-up interview with Johan Nyrenius on his thesis "Autism in adult psychiatry outpatients – Prevalence, comorbidity,…

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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.

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

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

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