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Overview

Rosa A. Hoekstra is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience within these broader areas. Their work also spans Psychiatry and Mental Health, Safety Research, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The main topics addressed in Hoekstra's research include Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Family and Disability Support Research, Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues, and aspects of Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development. Other notable subjects are Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders, Infant Development and Preterm Care, and Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hoekstra include Charlotte Hanlon, Sander Begeer, Bethlehem Tekola, Elisa Genovesi, and Fikirte Girma.

Hoekstra regularly publishes in several scientific journals. The most frequent venues for their work are:

  • Autism
  • Autism Research
  • PLoS ONE
  • Molecular Autism
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Hoekstra include:

  • A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Cultural and Contextual Factors on Autism Across the Globe, 2020, Autism Research
  • Global Burden of Childhood Epilepsy, Intellectual Disability, and Sensory Impairments, 2020, PEDIATRICS
  • Perceptions and experiences of stigma among parents of children with developmental disorders in Ethiopia: A qualitative study, 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • The Dutch Sensory Perception Quotient-Short in adults with and without autism, 2020, Autism
  • Autism and chronic ill health: an observational study of symptoms and diagnoses of central sensitivity syndromes in autistic adults, 2022, Molecular Autism

Best Publications

  • Autism spectrum disorders and autistic traits: a decade of new twin studies

    Angelica Ronald;Rosa A. Hoekstra

  • Factor Structure, Reliability and Criterion Validity of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ): A Study in Dutch Population and Patient Groups

    Rosa A. Hoekstra;Meike Bartels;Danielle C. Cath;Dorret I. Boomsma

  • The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ)—Adolescent Version

    Simon Baron-Cohen;Rosa A. Hoekstra;Rebecca Knickmeyer;Sally Wheelwright

  • The Construction and Validation of an Abridged Version of the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ-Short)

    Rosa A. Hoekstra;Rosa A. Hoekstra;Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen;Sally Wheelwright;Meike Bartels

  • Heritability of autistic traits in the general population.

    Rosa A. Hoekstra;Meike Bartels;Catharina J. H. Verweij;Dorret I. Boomsma

  • Autistic traits below the clinical threshold: re-examining the broader autism phenotype in the 21st century.

    E Sucksmith;I Roth;Rosa Hoekstra

  • Autism screening and diagnosis in low resource settings: Challenges and opportunities to enhance research and services worldwide.

    Maureen S. Durkin;Mayada Elsabbagh;Josephine Barbaro;Melissa Gladstone

  • Empathy and emotion recognition in people with autism, first-degree relatives, and controls

    E Sucksmith;C Allison;S Baron-Cohen;B Chakrabarti;B Chakrabarti

  • The Sensory Perception Quotient (SPQ): development and validation of a new sensory questionnaire for adults with and without autism.

    Teresa Tavassoli;Rosa A Hoekstra;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • Stigma, explanatory models and unmet needs of caregivers of children with developmental disorders in a low-income African country: a cross-sectional facility-based survey.

    Dejene Tilahun;Dejene Tilahun;Charlotte Hanlon;Charlotte Hanlon;Abebaw Fekadu;Abebaw Fekadu;Bethlehem Tekola

  • A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Cultural and Contextual Factors on Autism Across the Globe.

    Anne de Leeuw;Francesca Gabrielle Elizabeth Happe;Rosa Anna Hoekstra

  • Special interests and subjective wellbeing in autistic adults.

    Rachel Grove;Rosa A Hoekstra;Marlies Wierda;Sander Begeer

  • Global Burden of Childhood Epilepsy, Intellectual Disability, and Sensory Impairments

    Bolajoko O. Olusanya;Scott M. Wright;M.K.C. Nair;Nem-Yun Boo

  • Are Autism Spectrum Conditions More Prevalent in an Information-Technology Region? A School-Based Study of Three Regions in the Netherlands

    Martine T. Roelfsema;Rosa A. Hoekstra;Rosa A. Hoekstra;Carrie Allison;Sally Wheelwright;Sally Wheelwright

  • The co-occurrence of autistic and ADHD dimensions in adults: an etiological study in 17 770 twins

    T. J. C. Polderman;R. A. Hoekstra;D. Posthuma;Henrik Larsson

  • Longitudinal genetic study of verbal and nonverbal IQ from early childhood to young adulthood

    Rosa A. Hoekstra;Meike Bartels;Dorret I. Boomsma

  • Age of menarche in females with autism spectrum conditions

    Rebecca C Knickmeyer;Sally Wheelwright;Rosa Hoekstra;Simon Baron-Cohen

  • Attention problems, inhibitory control, and intelligence index overlapping genetic factors: a study in 9-, 12-, and 18-year-old twins.

    Tinca J. C. Polderman;Eco J. C. de Geus;Rosa A. Hoekstra;Meike Bartels

  • The five factor model of personality and intelligence: A twin study on the relationship between the two constructs

    Meike Bartels;Felice I. van Weegen;Catharina E.M. van Beijsterveldt;Michèle Carlier

  • Attentional switching forms a genetic link between attention problems and autistic traits in adults

    T J C Polderman;Rosa Hoekstra;A A E Vinkhuyzen;P F Sullivan

  • Challenges and opportunities to improve autism services in low-income countries: lessons from a situational analysis in Ethiopia

    B. Tekola;Y. Baheretibeb;I. Roth;D. Tilahun

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorret I. Boomsma
Dorret I. Boomsma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Meike Bartels
Meike Bartels Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
Angelica Ronald
Angelica Ronald Birkbeck, University of London
Tinca J. C. Polderman
Tinca J. C. Polderman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Francesca Happé
Francesca Happé King's College London
Danielle Posthuma
Danielle Posthuma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sally Wheelwright
Sally Wheelwright University of Sussex
Bhismadev Chakrabarti
Bhismadev Chakrabarti University of Reading
Carol Brayne
Carol Brayne University of Cambridge

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