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Overview

Dieter Wolke is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans medicine and psychology, with a significant focus on pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. This includes specialized work in clinical psychology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, psychiatry and mental health, as well as social psychology.

The researcher's work covers several main topics, including infant development and preterm care, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, neonatal respiratory health research, birth, development, and health, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, and maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.

Frequent collaborators include Peter Bartmann, Samantha Johnson, Nicole Baumann, Christian Sorg, and Katri Räikkönen. These partnerships reflect ongoing interdisciplinary research efforts.

Key publication venues where their work appears regularly include:

  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
  • Human Brain Mapping

Recent significant papers authored by or involving Dieter Wolke are:

  • "A Population-Based Cohort Study Examining the Incidence and Impact of Psychotic Experiences From Childhood to Adulthood, and Prediction of Psychotic Disorder" (2020), American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Association of Very Preterm Birth or Very Low Birth Weight With Intelligence in Adulthood" (2021), JAMA Pediatrics
  • "Psychiatric disorders in individuals born very preterm / very low-birth weight: An individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis" (2021), EClinicalMedicine
  • "No change in neurodevelopment at 11 years after extremely preterm birth" (2021), Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal
  • "Neuropsychological Outcomes at 19 Years of Age Following Extremely Preterm Birth" (2020), PEDIATRICS

Best Publications

  • Neurologic and Developmental Disability at Six Years of Age after Extremely Preterm Birth

    Neil Marlow;Dieter Wolke;Melanie A. Bracewell;Muthanna Samara

  • Adult psychiatric outcomes of bullying and being bullied by peers in childhood and adolescence.

    William E. Copeland;Dieter Wolke;Adrian Angold;E. Jane Costello

  • Long-term effects of bullying

    Dieter Wolke;Suzet Tanya Lereya

  • Impact of Bullying in Childhood on Adult Health, Wealth, Crime, and Social Outcomes

    Dieter Wolke;William E. Copeland;Adrian Angold;E. Jane Costello

  • Bullying and victimization of primary school children in England and Germany: prevalence and school factors.

    Dieter Wolke;Sarah Woods;Katherine Stanford;Henrike Schulz

  • Parenting behavior and the risk of becoming a victim and a bully/victim: a meta-analysis study.

    Suzet Tanya Lereya;Muthanna Samara;Dieter Wolke

  • The Association between Direct and Relational Bullying and Behaviour Problems among Primary School Children

    Dieter Wolke;Sarah Woods;Linda Bloomfield;Lyn Karstadt

  • Adult mental health consequences of peer bullying and maltreatment in childhood: Two cohorts in two countries

    Suzet Tanya Lereya;William E Copeland;E Jane Costello;Dieter Wolke

  • Selective drop-out in longitudinal studies and non-biased prediction of behaviour disorders

    Dieter Wolke;Andrea Waylen;Muthanna Samara;Colin Steer

  • Comparing the German versions of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ-Deu) and the Child Behavior Checklist.

    H. Klasen;W. Woerner;Dieter Wolke;R. Meyer

  • Cognitive status, language attainment, and prereading skills of 6‐year‐old very preterm children and their peers: the Bavarian Longitudinal Study

    Dieter Wolke;Renate Meyer

  • Psychiatric Disorders in Extremely Preterm Children: Longitudinal Finding at Age 11 Years in the EPICure Study

    S Johnson;C Hollis;P Kochhar;E Hennessy

  • Socioeconomic Status and Bullying: A Meta-Analysis

    Neil Tippett;Dieter Wolke

  • Obesity and bullying: different effects for boys and girls

    Lucy Jane Griffiths;Dieter Wolke;Angie S Page;Jeremy Horwood

  • Motor and Executive Function at 6 Years of Age After Extremely Preterm Birth

    Neil Marlow;Enid M. Hennessy;Melanie A. Bracewell;Dieter Wolke

  • Prospective Study of Peer Victimization in Childhood and Psychotic Symptoms in a Nonclinical Population at Age 12 Years

    Andrea Schreier;Dieter Wolke;Kate Thomas;Jeremy Horwood

  • Effects of Gestational Age at Birth on Health Outcomes at 3 and 5 Years of Age: Population-based Cohort Study

    E.M. Boyle;G. Poulsen;D.J. Field;J.J. Kurinczuk

  • Direct and relational bullying among primary school children and academic achievement

    Sarah B. Woods;Dieter Wolke

  • Adult Functional Outcomes of Common Childhood Psychiatric Problems: A Prospective, Longitudinal Study.

    William E. Copeland;Dieter Wolke;Lilly Shanahan;E. Jane Costello

  • Autism spectrum disorders in extremely preterm children.

    Samantha J. Johnson;Samantha J. Johnson;Chris Hollis;Puja Kochhar;Enid M. Hennessy

  • Associations between problems with crying, sleeping and/or feeding in infancy and long-term behavioural outcomes in childhood: a meta-analysis

    Mirja Helen Hemmi;Dieter Wolke;Silvia Schneider

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil Marlow
Neil Marlow University College London
Eero Kajantie
Eero Kajantie Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Glyn Lewis
Glyn Lewis University College London
Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson National University of Singapore
Christian Sorg
Christian Sorg Technical University of Munich
Katri Räikkönen
Katri Räikkönen University of Helsinki
Stanley Zammit
Stanley Zammit University of Bristol
Kati Heinonen
Kati Heinonen University of Helsinki
Muthanna Samara
Muthanna Samara Kingston University
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London

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