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Anita Thapar is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans medicine and psychology, with a strong focus on subfields such as psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, and aspects of health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. The scientist's main topics of work include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, health, environment, cognitive aging, autism spectrum disorder research, functional brain connectivity studies, cognitive abilities and testing, and genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

The scientist has contributed to a variety of academic publications with notable recent papers including:

  • The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Depression in young people, 2022, The Lancet
  • Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Genetic Advances in Autism, 2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Development of ADHD: Etiology, Heterogeneity, and Early Life Course, 2020, Annual Review of Developmental Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with the scientist include:

  • Lucy Riglin
  • Joanna Martin
  • K. Langley
  • Frances Rice
  • Evie Stergiakouli

The scientist's work has appeared regularly in several publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • American Journal of Psychiatry

Within their research domains, the scientist has a significant focus on neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders, particularly ADHD and autism spectrum disorder, linking genetics with developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Their contributions include exploring genetic architectures, developmental trajectories, and psychosocial outcomes related to these conditions.

Best Publications

  • Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis

    Jordan W. Smoller;Kenneth Kendler;Nicholas John Craddock;Phil Hyoun Lee

  • Depression in adolescence

    Anita Thapar;Stephan Collishaw;Daniel S. Pine;Ajay Kumar Thapar

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Ditte Demontis;Ditte Demontis;Raymond K Walters;Raymond K Walters;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Manuel Mattheisen

  • The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based Conclusions about the Disorder

    Stephen V. Faraone;Tobias Banaschewski;David Coghill;Yi Zheng

  • Practitioner review: what have we learnt about the causes of ADHD?

    Anita Thapar;Miriam Cooper;Olga Eyre;Kate Langley

  • Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

  • Rare chromosomal deletions and duplications in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a genome-wide analysis

    Nigel Melville Williams;Irina Zaharieva;Andrew Kenneth Martin;Kate Langley

  • Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies of Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Sarah E. Medland;Sarah E. Medland;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Philip Asherson

  • Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

    Anita Thapar;Daniel S Pine;James F Leckman;Stephen Scott

  • Genetic basis of attention deficit and hyperactivity.

    Anita Thapar;Jane Holmes;Kay Poulton;Richard Harrington

  • Neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia

    Michael John Owen;Michael Conlon O'Donovan;Anita Thapar;Nicholas John Craddock

  • Genomewide association studies: history, rationale, and prospects for psychiatric disorders.

    Sven Cichon;Nick Craddock;Mark Daly;Mark Daly;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Maternal smoking during pregnancy and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in offspring

    Anita Thapar;Tom A.lan Fowler;Frances Rice;Jane Scourfield

  • The links between prenatal stress and offspring development and psychopathology: disentangling environmental and inherited influences.

    F. Rice;G. T. Harold;J. Boivin;M. van den Bree

  • The genetic aetiology of childhood depression: a review

    Frances Rice;Gordon Thomas Harold;Anita Thapar

  • The WPA-Lancet Psychiatry Commission on the Future of Psychiatry

    Dinesh Bhugra;Dinesh Bhugra;Allan Tasman;Soumitra Pathare;Stefan Priebe

  • Prenatal smoking might not cause Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence from a novel design

    Anita Thapar;Frances Rice;Dale F. Hay;Jacky Boivin

  • Examining the comorbidity of ADHD-related behaviours and conduct problems using a twin study design.

    Anita Thapar;Richard Harrington;Peter McGUFFIN

  • Genome-wide analysis of copy number variants in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: the role of rare variants and duplications at 15q13.3

    Nigel M A Williams;Barbara Franke;Eric O Mick;Richard J Anney

Frequent Co-Authors

Frances Rice
Frances Rice Cardiff University
Michael Conlon O'Donovan
Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University
Gordon Thomas Harold
Gordon Thomas Harold University of Cambridge
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University
Stephan Collishaw
Stephan Collishaw Cardiff University
Lucy Riglin
Lucy Riglin Cardiff University
Peter McGuffin
Peter McGuffin King's College London
George Davey Smith
George Davey Smith University of Bristol
Nicholas John Craddock
Nicholas John Craddock Cardiff University
Kate Tilling
Kate Tilling University of Bristol

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