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Fruhling Rijsdijk is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has a research focus that spans psychology and medicine. Their work frequently intersects with clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, genetics, and public health.

Their research covers various topics, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

Rijsdijk has contributed to multiple papers published in reputable venues. Some notable recent publications include:

  • Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: an individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Twins and Causal Inference: Leveraging Nature's Experiment, 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine
  • Research Review: How to interpret associations between polygenic scores, environmental risks, and phenotypes, 2022, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • A genetically informed Registered Report on adverse childhood experiences and mental health, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Genetic sensitivity analysis: Adjusting for genetic confounding in epidemiological associations, 2021, PLoS Genetics

They have frequently published in several key academic journals, including:

  • Behavior Genetics
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior

Throughout their career, Rijsdijk has collaborated with various scholars. Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Helena M. S. Zavos
  • Athula Sumathipala
  • Olakunle Oginni
  • Sisira Siribaddana
  • Jean-Baptiste Pingault

Rijsdijk's research reflects a multidisciplinary approach combining genetics, psychological theory, and epidemiological methods. Their contributions to twin studies, genetic confounding, and environmental influences on behavior have been published across diverse scientific domains.

Best Publications

  • The Heritability of Bipolar Affective Disorder and the Genetic Relationship to Unipolar Depression

    Peter McGuffin;Fruhling Rijsdijk;Martin Andrew;Pak Sham

  • Heritability of autism spectrum disorders: a meta‐analysis of twin studies

    Beata Tick;Patrick Bolton;Francesca Happé;Michael Rutter

  • Analytic approaches to twin data using structural equation models

    Frühling V. Rijsdijk;Pak C. Sham

  • Proteome-based plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    A Hye;Steven Lynham;Madhav Thambisetty;M Causevic

  • A Twin Study of Genetic Relationships Between Psychotic Symptoms

    Alastair G Cardno;Frühling V Rijsdijk;Pak C Sham;Robin M Murray

  • Heritability of Autism Spectrum Disorder in a UK Population-Based Twin Sample

    Emma Colvert;Beata Tick;Fiona McEwen;Catherine Stewart;Catherine Stewart

  • Temporal and Reciprocal Relationship Between IADL/ADL Disability and Depressive Symptoms in Late Life

    J Ormel;Fruhling Rijsdijk;M Sullivan;E van Sonderen

  • Using genetic data to strengthen causal inference in observational research.

    Jean Baptiste Pingault;Jean Baptiste Pingault;Paul F. O’Reilly;Tabea Schoeler;George B. Ploubidis

  • An estimate of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis heritability using twin data

    A Al-Chalabi;F Fang;M F Hanby;P N Leigh

  • Strong genetic effects on cross-situational antisocial behaviour among 5-year-old children according to mothers, teachers, examiner-observers, and twins' self-reports

    Louise Arseneault;Terrie E. Moffitt;Terrie E. Moffitt;Avshalom Caspi;Avshalom Caspi;Alan Taylor

  • Relationships Between Parental Negativity and Childhood Antisocial Behavior over Time: A Bidirectional Effects Model in a Longitudinal Genetically Informative Design

    Henrik Larsson;Essi Viding;Fruhling V. Rijsdijk;Robert Plomin

  • Substantial genetic overlap between neurocognition and schizophrenia: genetic modeling in twin samples

    Timothea Toulopoulou;Timothea Toulopoulou;Marco Picchioni;Fruhling Rijsdijk;Mei Hua-Hall;Mei Hua-Hall

  • The Intergenerational Transmission of Anxiety: A Children-of-Twins Study.

    Thalia C. Eley;Tom A. McAdams;Fruhling V. Rijsdijk;Paul Lichtenstein

  • Etiology of Different Developmental Trajectories of Callous-Unemotional Traits.

    Nathalie M. G. Fontaine;Fruehling V. Rijsdijk;Eamon J. P. McCrory;Essi Viding;Essi Viding

  • The direction of longitudinal associations between sleep problems and depression symptoms: a study of twins aged 8 and 10 years.

    Alice M. Gregory;Früuhling V. Rijsdijk;Jennifer Y. F. Lau;Ronald E. Dahl

  • The Structure of Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Dimensional Representations of DSM-5 Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders

    Benedetta Monzani;Fruhling Rijsdijk;Juliette Harris;David Mataix-Cols;David Mataix-Cols

  • Heritability and Reliability of P300, P50 and Duration Mismatch Negativity

    Mei Hua Hall;Katja Schulze;Frühling Rijsdijk;Marco Picchioni

  • Separation of cognitive impairments in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder into 2 familial factors.

    Jonna Kuntsi;Alexis C. Wood;Alexis C. Wood;Fruehling Rijsdijk;Katherine A. Johnson;Katherine A. Johnson

  • Genetic etiology in cases of recovered and persistent stuttering in an unselected, longitudinal sample of young twins

    Katharina Dworzynski;Anna Remington;Frühling Rijsdijk;Peter Howell

  • A quantitative genetic analysis of schizotypal personality traits.

    Y. M. Linney;R. M. Murray;E. R. Peters;A. M. MacDONALD

Frequent Co-Authors

Thalia C. Eley
Thalia C. Eley King's College London
Marco Picchioni
Marco Picchioni King's College London
Jonna Kuntsi
Jonna Kuntsi King's College London
Alice M. Gregory
Alice M. Gregory Goldsmiths University of London
Matthew Hotopf
Matthew Hotopf King's College London
Jean-Baptiste Pingault
Jean-Baptiste Pingault University College London
Robert Plomin
Robert Plomin King's College London
Lucía Colodro-Conde
Lucía Colodro-Conde QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Angelica Ronald
Angelica Ronald Birkbeck, University of London
Essi Viding
Essi Viding University College London

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