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Per Hove Thomsen is affiliated with Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark and is engaged in research primarily within the fields of psychology and medicine. The scientist's work spans several subfields including clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues

Per Hove Thomsen has contributed to a significant number of publications, with frequent appearances in several journals. These publication venues include:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • BMC Psychiatry
  • Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomsen are:

  • The immediate effect of COVID-19 pandemic on children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder (2020), published in BMC Psychiatry
  • Effectiveness of Transdiagnostic Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy Compared With Management as Usual for Youth With Common Mental Health Problems (2020), published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: An Empirical Approach to Defining Treatment Response and Remission in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (2021), published in Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Factors Associated with a Delayed Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis in Children Previously Assessed on Suspicion of Autism (2021), published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • How much impairment is required for ADHD? No evidence of a discrete threshold (2021), published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Throughout their career, Thomsen has collaborated frequently with certain coauthors. These include:

  • Davíð R.M.A. Højgaard
  • Judith Becker Nissen
  • Gudmundur Skarphéðinsson
  • Tord Ivarsson
  • Katja Anna Hybel

Best Publications

  • Maternal lifestyle factors in pregnancy risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and associated behaviors: Review of the current evidence

    Karen Markussen Linnet;Søren Dalsgaard;Carsten Obel;Kirsten Wisborg

  • Gestational age, birth weight, and the risk of hyperkinetic disorder

    Karen Markussen Linnet;Kirsten Wisborg;Esben Agerbo;Niels-Jørgen Secher

  • Conduct problems, gender and adult psychiatric outcome of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Søren Dalsgaard;Preben Bo Mortensen;Morten Frydenberg;Per Hove Thomsen

  • The classification of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders in the ICD-11

    D. J. Stein;C. S. Kogan;M. Atmaca;N. A. Fineberg;N. A. Fineberg;N. A. Fineberg

  • Impulse control disorders and "behavioural addictions" in the ICD-11

    Jon Edgar Grant;Murad Atmaca;Naomi A Fineberg;Leonardo F. Fontenelle

  • Social skills training for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children aged 5 to 18 years.

    Ole Jakob Storebø;Maria Skoog;Dorte Damm;Per Hove Thomsen

  • ADHD, stimulant treatment in childhood and subsequent substance abuse in adulthood — A naturalistic long-term follow-up study

    Søren Dalsgaard;Preben Bo Mortensen;Morten Frydenberg;Per Hove Thomsen

  • Effectiveness of cognitive behavior treatment for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder: Acute outcomes from the Nordic Long-term OCD Treatment Study (NordLOTS)

    Nor Christian Torp;Kitty Dahl;Gudmundur Skarphedinsson;Per Hove Thomsen

  • Smoking during pregnancy and the risk for hyperkinetic disorder in offspring.

    Karen Markussen Linnet;Kirsten Wisborg;Carsten Obel;Niels Jørgen Secher;Niels Jørgen Secher

  • Obstetric complications and risk for severe psychopathology in childhood.

    William W. Eaton;Preben Bo Mortensen;Per Hove Thomsen;Morten Frydenberg

  • Time Trends in Reported Diagnoses of Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Danish Cohort Study

    Hjördís Ósk Atladóttir;Erik T. Parner;Diana Schendel;Søren Dalsgaard

  • Long-term criminal outcome of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Søren Dalsgaard;Preben Bo Mortensen;Morten Frydenberg;Per Hove Thomsen

  • Executive Dysfunction in School-Age Children With ADHD

    Rikke Lambek;Rosemary Tannock;Soeren Dalsgaard;Anegen Trillingsgaard;Anegen Trillingsgaard

  • A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of citalopram in adolescents with major depressive disorder.

    Anne-Liis von Knorring;Gunilla Ingrid Olsson;Per Hove Thomsen;Ole Michael Lemming

  • Course of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents: A Prospective Follow-up Study of 23 Danish Cases

    Per Hove Thomsen;Hans Ulrik Mikkelsen

  • Association between Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in childhood and schizophrenia later in adulthood.

    S. Dalsgaard;P.B. Mortensen;M. Frydenberg;C.M. Maibing

  • Use of ADHD drugs in the Nordic countries: a population-based comparison study.

    H. Zoëga;K. Furu;K. Furu;M. Halldórsson;P. H. Thomsen

  • Validating neuropsychological subtypes of ADHD: how do children with and without an executive function deficit differ?

    Rikke Lambek;Rosemary Tannock;Soeren Dalsgaard;Anegen Trillingsgaard;Anegen Trillingsgaard

  • Schizophrenia with childhood and adolescent onset — a nationwide register‐based study

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  • Child and adolescent obsessive-compulsive disorder treated with citalopram: findings from an open trial of 23 cases.

    Per Hove Thomsen

  • Predictors Associated With Improved Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Outcome in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Nor Christian Torp;Kitty Dahl;Gudmundur Skarphedinsson;Scott Compton

  • Psychopharmacological treatment with lithium and antiepileptic drugs: suggested guidelines from the Danish Psychiatric Association and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Association in Denmark.

    R. W. Licht;P. Vestergaard;L. V. Kessing;J. K. Larsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke King's College London
Tord Ivarsson
Tord Ivarsson University of Gothenburg
Niels Bilenberg
Niels Bilenberg University of Southern Denmark
Erik Simonsen
Erik Simonsen University of Copenhagen
Kerstin J. Plessen
Kerstin J. Plessen University of Lausanne
Naomi A. Fineberg
Naomi A. Fineberg University of Hertfordshire
Per Fink
Per Fink Aarhus University
David Veale
David Veale King's College London
Douglas W. Woods
Douglas W. Woods Marquette University
Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Leonardo F. Fontenelle Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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