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Familial confounding of the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and ADHD in offspring
(Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2014-08-22)Background: Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy (SDP) has consistently been associated with increased risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in offspring, but recent studies indicate that this association ... -
Multiple sclerosis and psychiatric disorders : comorbidity and sibling risk in a nationwide Swedish cohort
(Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2014-08-04)Background: Psychiatric disorders are known to be prevalent in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Objective: To study comorbidity between MS and bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and depression in a nation-wide cohort and to ... -
Hypospadias and increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders
(Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2014-07-31)BACKGROUND: Hypospadias (aberrant opening of the urethra on the underside of the penis) occurs in 1 per 300 newborn boys. It has been previously unknown whether this common malformation is associated with increased psychiatric ... -
The roots of autism and ADHD twin study in Sweden (RATSS)
(Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2014-06-25)Neurodevelopmental disorders affect a substantial minority of the general population. Their origins are still largely unknown, but a complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors causing disturbances of the central ... -
Language and mathematical problems as precursors of psychotic-like experiences and juvenile mania symptoms
(Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2014-06-25)BACKGROUND: Psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) and juvenile mania in adolescence index risk for severe psychopathology in adulthood. The importance of childhood problems with communication, reading, speech and mathematics ... -
Accounting for genetic and environmental confounds in associations between parent and child characteristics : a systematic review of children-of-twins studies
(Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2014-06-24)Parental psychopathology, parenting style, and the quality of intrafamilial relationships are all associated with child mental health outcomes. However, most research can say little about the causal pathways underlying ... -
Suboptimal psychosocial outcomes in patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia : epidemiological studies in a nonbiased national cohort in Sweden
(Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2014-06-13)Context: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), CYP21A2 deficiency, results in cortisol and aldosterone deficiency and increased production of androgens, with a good genotype phenotype correlation. Objective: To study ... -
The Swedish Twin Registry : establishment of a biobank and other recent developments
(Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2013-12-20)The Swedish Twin Registry (STR) today contains more than 194,000 twins and more than 75,000 pairs have zygosity determined by an intra-pair similarity algorithm, DNA, or by being of opposite sex. Of these, approximately ... -
Childhood neurodevelopmental disorders and violent criminality : a sibling control study
(Inst för medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik / Dept of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2013-06-24)Introduction: The longitudinal relationship between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and violent criminality has been extensively documented, while long-term effects of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), tic ... -
Long-term follow-up after comprehensive rehabilitation of persons with epilepsy, with emphasis on participation in employment or education
(Inst för klinisk neurovetenskap / Dept of Clinical Neuroscience, 2013-05-15)The objective of this study was to describe the current situation of patients with epilepsy after rehabilitation with emphasis on employment and education and to investigate if clinical factors at admission were associated ... -
Age-dependent variation of genotypes in MHC II transactivator gene (CIITA) in controls and association to type 1 diabetes
(Inst för klinisk neurovetenskap / Dept of Clinical Neuroscience, 2013-03-25)The major histocompatibility complex class II transactivator (CIITA) gene (16p13) has been reported to associate with susceptibility to multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and myocardial infarction, recently also to ... -
Combining [(11)C]-AnxA5 PET imaging with serum biomarkers for improved detection in live mice of modest cell death in human solid tumor xenografts
(Inst för medicinsk biokemi och biofysik / Dept of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2012-10-02)BACKGROUND: In vivo imaging using Annexin A5-based radioligands is a powerful technique for visualizing massive cell death, but has been less successful in monitoring the modest cell death typically seen in solid tumors ... -
HER2-positive tumors imaged within 1 hour using a site-specifically 11C-labeled sel-tagged affibody molecule
(Inst för medicinsk biokemi och biofysik / Dept of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2012-10-02)A rapid, reliable method for distinguishing tumors or metastases that overexpress human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) from those that do not is highly desired for individualizing therapy and predicting prognoses. ... -
Clinician acquisition and retention of motivational interviewing skills : a two-and-a-half-year exploratory study
(Inst för folkhälsovetenskap / Dept of Public Health Sciences, 2012-08-27)Background: Motivational interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, client-centred counselling style aimed at eliciting and strengthening clients' intrinsic motivation to change. There is strong research evidence supporting the ...