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642
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Louise Arseneault is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology and related subfields. Their body of work spans several intersecting domains including health, social psychology, molecular biology, and general health professions.

The primary research areas explored include child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, health disparities and outcomes, epigenetics and DNA methylation, child abuse and trauma, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bullying, victimization, and aggression, as well as aspects of birth, development, and health.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Arseneault include:

  • Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science (2020, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Quantification of the pace of biological aging in humans through a blood test, the DunedinPoAm DNA methylation algorithm (2020, eLife)
  • Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • Investigating the genetic architecture of noncognitive skills using GWAS-by-subtraction (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • Population vs Individual Prediction of Poor Health From Results of Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening (2021, JAMA Pediatrics)

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Terrie E. Moffitt
  • Helen L. Fisher
  • Avshalom Caspi
  • Andrea Danese
  • Karen Sugden

Arseneault has published repeatedly in several key academic venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Nature Genetics
  • Psychological Medicine

Their contributions have been recognized by election as a fellow in two distinct academies in the United Kingdom:

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Best Publications

  • A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety

    Terrie E. Moffitt;Louise Arseneault;Daniel Belsky;Nigel Dickson

  • Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science.

    Emily A. Holmes;Emily A. Holmes;Rory C O'Connor;V. Hugh Perry;Irene Tracey

  • Cannabis use in adolescence and risk for adult psychosis: longitudinal prospective study

    Louise Arseneault;Mary Cannon;Richie Poulton;Robin Murray

  • Moderation of the effect of adolescent-onset cannabis use on adult psychosis by a functional polymorphism in the catechol-O-methyltransferase gene: longitudinal evidence of a gene X environment interaction.

    Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;Terrie E. Moffitt;Mary Cannon;Mary Cannon;Joseph McClay

  • Bullying victimization in youths and mental health problems: 'much ado about nothing'?

    Louise Arseneault;Lucy Bowes;Sania Shakoor

  • Causal association between cannabis and psychosis: examination of the evidence

    Louise Arseneault;Mary Cannon;John Witton;Robin M Murray

  • Maternal expressed emotion predicts children's antisocial behavior problems: using monozygotic-twin differences to identify environmental effects on behavioral development.

    Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;Julia Morgan;Michael Rutter

  • Mental disorders and violence in a total birth cohort: results from the Dunedin Study.

    Louise Arseneault;Terrie E. Moffitt;Avshalom Caspi;Pamela J. Taylor

  • Adult Health Outcomes of Childhood Bullying Victimization: Evidence From a Five-Decade Longitudinal British Birth Cohort

    Ryu Takizawa;Barbara Maughan;Louise Arseneault

  • Childhood Trauma and Children’s Emerging Psychotic Symptoms: A Genetically Sensitive Longitudinal Cohort Study

    Louise Arseneault;Mary Cannon;Helen L. Fisher;Guilherme Polanczyk

  • Bullying Victimization Uniquely Contributes to Adjustment Problems in Young Children: A Nationally Representative Cohort Study

    Louise Arseneault;Elizabeth Walsh;Kali Trzesniewski;Rhiannon Newcombe

  • Families promote emotional and behavioural resilience to bullying: evidence of an environmental effect

    Lucy Bowes;Barbara Maughan;Avshalom Caspi;Avshalom Caspi;Terrie E. Moffitt;Terrie E. Moffitt

  • School, Neighborhood, and Family Factors Are Associated With Children's Bullying Involvement: A Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study

    Lucy Bowes;Louise Arseneault;Barbara Maughan;Alan Taylor

  • Social isolation, loneliness and depression in young adulthood: a behavioural genetic analysis

    Timothy Matthews;Andrea Danese;Andrea Danese;Jasmin Wertz;Candice Odgers

  • Research Review: DSM-V conduct disorder: research needs for an evidence base

    Terrie E. Moffitt;Terrie E. Moffitt;Louise Arseneault;Sara R. Jaffee;Julia Kim-Cohen;Julia Kim-Cohen

  • Quantification of the pace of biological aging in humans through a blood test: The DunedinPoAm DNA methylation algorithm

    Daniel W W Belsky;Avshalom Caspi;Louise Arseneault;Andrea Baccarelli

  • Exposure to violence during childhood is associated with telomere erosion from 5 to 10 years of age: a longitudinal study

    I. Shalev;Terrie Moffitt;Karen Sugden;Benjamin Williams

  • Clinicopathological significance of psychotic experiences in non-psychotic young people: evidence from four population-based studies

    Ian Kelleher;Helen Keeley;Paul Corcoran;Fionnuala Lynch

  • Evaluation of the Persistence, Remission, and Emergence of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Young Adulthood.

    Jessica C. Agnew-Blais;Guilherme V. Polanczyk;Andrea Danese;Jasmin Wertz

  • Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation

    J.L. Min;G. Hemani;E. Hannon;K.F. Dekkers

  • Impulsivity predicts problem gambling in low SES adolescent males

    Frank Vitaro;Louise Arseneault;Richard E. Tremblay

  • Specificity of childhood psychotic symptoms for predicting schizophrenia by 38 years of age: a birth cohort study

    H.L. Fisher;A. Caspi;R. Poulton;M.H. Meier

Frequent Co-Authors

Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University
Avshalom Caspi
Avshalom Caspi Duke University
Andrea Danese
Andrea Danese King's College London
Candice L. Odgers
Candice L. Odgers University of California, Irvine
Renate Houts
Renate Houts Duke University
Jonathan Mill
Jonathan Mill University of Exeter
Richard E. Tremblay
Richard E. Tremblay University of Montreal
Sara R. Jaffee
Sara R. Jaffee University of Pennsylvania
Barbara Maughan
Barbara Maughan King's College London
Frank Vitaro
Frank Vitaro University of Montreal

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