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57
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4064
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436

Overview

Frances Rice is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on psychology, medicine, and social sciences. Within these broad areas, their work often addresses clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, genetics, as well as sociology and political science.

The scientist's publications frequently cover topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, health, environment, and cognitive aging. Other significant themes in their research include health disparities and outcomes, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), birth, development and health, and family support in illness.

Frances Rice has contributed to numerous papers, some of which have notable citation counts. Recent publications include:

  • Practitioner review: Co-design of digital mental health technologies with children and young people, 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • The antecedents and outcomes of persistent and remitting adolescent depressive symptom trajectories: a longitudinal, population-based English study, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • What explains the link between childhood ADHD and adolescent depression? Investigating the role of peer relationships and academic attainment, 2020, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Polygenic risk for depression, anxiety and neuroticism are associated with the severity and rate of change in depressive symptoms across adolescence, 2021, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • The causal effects of health conditions and risk factors on social and socioeconomic outcomes: Mendelian randomization in UK Biobank, 2020, International Journal of Epidemiology

Their frequent co-authors include Anita Thapar, Stephan Collishaw, Rhys Bevan Jones, Victoria Powell, and Olga Eyre. Frances Rice's work is published in a variety of venues, with a notable number of publications appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE
  • BJPsych Open

This profile highlights a researcher whose work integrates diverse aspects of psychological and medical science, emphasizing adolescent mental health, genetics, and public health concerns. Their multidisciplinary approach addresses complex developmental and health outcomes in young populations while collaborating extensively within the field.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Adolescent and adult differences in major depression symptom profiles

    Frances Rice;Lucy Riglin;T Lomax;E. Souter

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

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

  • Maternal smoking during pregnancy as an environmental risk factor for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder behaviour. A review.

    Kate Langley;Frances Rice;Marianne Bernadette van den Bree;Anita Thapar

  • Catechol O-methyltransferase gene variant and birth weight predict early-onset antisocial behavior in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Anita Thapar;Kate Langley;Tom Fowler;Frances Rice

  • Practitioner review: Co-design of digital mental health technologies with children and young people

    Rhys Bevan Jones;Rhys Bevan Jones;Paul Stallard;Sharifah Shameem Agha;Sharifah Shameem Agha;Simon Rice

  • Assessing pupil concerns about transition to secondary school

    Frances Rice;Norah Frederickson;Joanna Seymour

  • Assessing the effects of age, sex and shared environment on the genetic aetiology of depression in childhood and adolescence.

    Frances Rice;Frances Rice;Gordon Thomas Harold;Anita Thapar

  • Full genome screen for Alzheimer disease: Stage II analysis*

    Amanda Myers;Fabienne Wavrant De-Vrieze;Peter Alan Holmans;Marian Lindsay Hamshere

  • The impact of gestational stress and prenatal growth on emotional problems in offspring: a review.

    Frances Rice;Ian Richard Jones;Anita Thapar

  • Mental health resilience in the adolescent offspring of parents with depression: a prospective longitudinal study

    Stephan Collishaw;Gemma Hammerton;Liam Mahedy;Ruth Sellers;Ruth Sellers

  • The relationship between emotional problems and subsequent school attainment: a meta-analysis.

    Lucy Riglin;K.V. Petrides;Norah Frederickson;Frances Rice

  • Depressive symptoms in children and adolescents: Changing aetiological influences with development

    Jane Scourfield;Frances Rice;Frances Rice;Anita Thapar;Gordon Thomas Harold

  • Exploring the relationship between genetic and environmental influences on initiation and progression of substance use.

    Tom Alan Fowler;Kate Joanna Lifford;Katherine Helen Shelton;Frances Rice

  • Agreement between maternal report and antenatal records for a range of pre and peri-natal factors: The influence of maternal and child characteristics

    Frances Rice;Allyson Lewis;Gordon Thomas Harold;Marianne Bernadette van den Bree

  • Familial transmission of depression and antisocial behavior symptoms: disentangling the contribution of inherited and environmental factors and testing the mediating role of parenting.

    Gordon T. Harold;F. Rice;Dale F. Hay;J. Boivin

  • A longitudinal study of psychological functioning and academic attainment at the transition to secondary school.

    Lucy Riglin;Norah Frederickson;Katherine Helen Shelton;Frances Rice

  • Characterizing Developmental Trajectories and the Role of Neuropsychiatric Genetic Risk Variants in Early-Onset Depression

    Frances Rice;Lucy Riglin;Ajay K Thapar;Jon Heron

  • Disentangling prenatal and inherited influences in humans with an experimental design

    Frances Rice;Gordon Thomas Harold;Jacky Boivin;Dale F. Hay

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon Thomas Harold
Gordon Thomas Harold University of Cambridge
Stephan Collishaw
Stephan Collishaw Cardiff University
Lucy Riglin
Lucy Riglin Cardiff University
Katherine Helen Shelton
Katherine Helen Shelton Cardiff University
Dale F. Hay
Dale F. Hay Cardiff University
Michael Conlon O'Donovan
Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University
Norah Frederickson
Norah Frederickson University College London
Michael John Owen
Michael John Owen Cardiff University
Nicholas John Craddock
Nicholas John Craddock Cardiff University
Daniel J. Smith
Daniel J. Smith University of Edinburgh

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