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2026

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  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Brazil Leader Award
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Overview

Luis Augusto Rohde is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Their research focuses extensively on topics related to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and mental health, with contributions spanning neuroscience, psychology, and medicine.

The primary fields of study for their work include Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Within these broad areas, they have contributed to several subfields such as Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The key research topics addressed in their publications are:

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Luis Augusto Rohde's notable recent papers include:

  • The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Worldwide Prevalence and Disability From Mental Disorders Across Childhood and Adolescence, 2024, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Variable Patterns of Remission From ADHD in the Multimodal Treatment Study of ADHD, 2021, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Incidence, prevalence, and global burden of ADHD from 1990 to 2019 across 204 countries: data, with critical re-analysis, from the Global Burden of Disease study, 2023, Molecular Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are:

  • Giovanni Abrahão Salum
  • Pedro Mário Pan
  • Eurípedes Constantino Miguel
  • Rodrigo A. Bressan
  • Ary Gadelha

Their scholarly work appears prominently in several scientific journals with repeated contributions, including:

  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research

Best Publications

  • The Worldwide Prevalence of ADHD: A Systematic Review and Metaregression Analysis

    Guilherme Vanoni Polanczyk;Maurício Silva de Lima;Bernardo Lessa Horta;Joseph Biederman

  • Annual Research Review: A meta-analysis of the worldwide prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents

    Guilherme V. Polanczyk;Giovanni A. Salum;Giovanni A. Salum;Luisa S. Sugaya;Arthur Caye

  • Child and adolescent mental health worldwide: evidence for action

    Christian Kieling;Helen Baker-Henningham;Myron Belfer;Gabriella Conti

  • 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

  • ADHD prevalence estimates across three decades: an updated systematic review and meta-regression analysis

    Guilherme V Polanczyk;Erik G Willcutt;Giovanni A Salum;Christian Kieling

  • Global Mental Health 2 Child and adolescent mental health worldwide: evidence for action

    Christian Kieling;Helen Baker-Henningham;Myron Belfer;Gabriella Conti

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

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

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

  • Validity of DSM-IV attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptom dimensions and subtypes.

    Erik G. Willcutt;Joel T. Nigg;Bruce F. Pennington;Mary V. Solanto

  • Genome-wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains

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  • Is Adult ADHD a Childhood-Onset Neurodevelopmental Disorder? Evidence From a Four-Decade Longitudinal Cohort Study

    Terrie E. Moffitt;Renate Houts;Philip Asherson;Daniel W. Belsky

  • Epidemiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder across the lifespan.

    Guilherme Polanczyk;Luis Augusto Rohde

  • Association Between ADHD and Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Samuele Cortese;Carlos Renato Moreira-Maia;Diane St. Fleur;Carmen Morcillo-Peñalver

  • ADHD in a school sample of Brazilian adolescents: a study of prevalence, comorbid conditions, and impairments.

    Luis A. Rohde;Joseph Biederman;Ellis A. Busnello;Heloisa Zimmermann

  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Trajectories From Childhood to Young Adulthood: Evidence From a Birth Cohort Supporting a Late-Onset Syndrome

    Arthur Caye;Thiago Botter-Maio Rocha;Luciana Anselmi;Joseph Murray

  • Transtorno de déficit de atenção/hiperatividade

    Luis Augusto Paim Rohde;Genario Alves Barbosa;Silzá Tramontina;Guilherme Vanoni Polanczyk

  • Adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: key conceptual issues

    Philip Asherson;Jan Buitelaar;Stephen V Faraone;Stephen V Faraone;Luis A Rohde

  • Transtorno de déficit de atenção/hiperatividade: atualização

    Luis A Rohde;Ricardo Halpern;Ricardo Halpern

  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Very Preterm/Very Low Birth Weight: A Meta-analysis

    Adelar Pedro Franz;Gul Unsel Bolat;Hilmi Bolat;Alicia Matijasevich

  • A general psychopathology factor (P factor) in children: Structural model analysis and external validation through familial risk and child global executive function.

    Michelle M Martel;Pedro M Pan;Maurício S Hoffmann;Ary Gadelha

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Abrahão Salum
Giovanni Abrahão Salum Child Mind Institute
Mara H. Hutz
Mara H. Hutz Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Euripedes Constantino Miguel
Euripedes Constantino Miguel Universidade de São Paulo
João Ricardo Sato
João Ricardo Sato Universidade Federal do ABC
Marcelo Q. Hoexter
Marcelo Q. Hoexter Universidade de São Paulo
Gisele Gus Manfro
Gisele Gus Manfro Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Ana M. B. Menezes
Ana M. B. Menezes Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Fernando C. Barros
Fernando C. Barros Universidade Católica de Pelotas
Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira
Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford

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