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Sheilagh Hodgins

Sheilagh Hodgins

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Psychology

D-Index
70
Citations
17691
World Ranking
2282
National Ranking
138

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Sheilagh Hodgins is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their research work primarily focuses on the intersection of psychology and medicine, with significant contributions in clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health. Additional areas of study include epidemiology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and molecular biology.

Their research topics encompass:

  • Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Substance abuse treatment and outcomes
  • Personality disorders and psychopathology
  • Healthcare decision-making and restraints
  • Traumatic brain injury research

Frequent publication venues for Hodgins include:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Behavioural Brain Research
  • International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
  • Journal of Neural Transmission

Sheilagh Hodgins' recent publications include:

  • "Monoamine oxidase A genotype and methylation moderate the association of maltreatment and aggressive behaviour", 2020, Behavioural Brain Research
  • "Associations of age, sex, sexual abuse, and genotype with monoamine oxidase a gene methylation", 2021, Journal of Neural Transmission
  • "Female Forensic Patients May Be an Atypical Sub-type of Females Presenting Aggressive and Antisocial Behavior", 2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "A comprehensive assessment of personality traits and psychosocial functioning in parents with bipolar disorder and their intimate partners", 2020, International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • "Could Expanding and Investing in First-Episode Psychosis Services Prevent Aggressive Behaviour and Violent Crime?", 2022, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hodgins include:

  • David Checknita
  • Jari Tiihonen
  • Kent W. Nilsson
  • Guido I. Guberman
  • Megha Bendre

Hodgins has received recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009, under the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Mental Disorder, Intellectual Deficiency, and Crime: Evidence From a Birth Cohort

    Sheilagh Hodgins

  • Major mental disorders and criminal violence in a Danish birth cohort.

    Patricia A. Brennan;Sarnoff A. Mednick;Sheilagh Hodgins

  • Mental disorder and crime. Evidence from a Danish birth cohort.

    Sheilagh Hodgins;Sarnoff A. Mednick;Patricia A. Brennan;Fini Schulsinger

  • Ventral frontal deficits in psychopathy: Neuropsychological test findings

    Dominique Lapierre;Claude M.J. Braun;Sheilagh Hodgins

  • Mental disorder and crime.

    Sheilagh Hodgins

  • Children of Parents with Bipolar Disorder: A Metaanalysis of Risk for Mental Disorders

    Micheline Lapalme;Sheilagh Hodgins;Catherine LaRoche

  • Size Matters: Increased Grey Matter in Boys with Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits.

    Stéphane A. De Brito;Andrea Mechelli;Marko Wilke;Kristin R. Laurens

  • A typology of offenders: a test of Moffitt's theory among males and females from childhood to age 30

    Lynn Kratzer;Sheilagh Hodgins

  • Violent behaviour among people with schizophrenia: a framework for investigations of causes, and effective treatment, and prevention.

    Sheilagh Hodgins

  • Maternal smoking during pregnancy and risk of criminal behavior among adult male offspring in the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort.

    Pirkko Räsänen;Helinä Hakko;Matti Isohanni;Sheilagh Hodgins

  • Convergent validity of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI): association with the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV).

    Henrik Andershed;Sheilagh Hodgins;Anders Tengström

  • Meta-analyses of cognitive and motor function in youth aged 16 years and younger who subsequently develop schizophrenia.

    Hannah Dickson;Kristin R. Laurens;Alexis E. Cullen;Sheilagh Hodgins

  • The Antisocial Brain: Psychopathy Matters: A Structural MRI Investigation of Antisocial Male Violent Offenders

    Sarah Gregory;Dominic ffytche;Andrew Simmons;Veena Kumari

  • Community screening for psychotic-like experiences and other putative antecedents of schizophrenia in children aged 9-12 years.

    Kristin R. Laurens;Sheilagh Hodgins;Barbara Maughan;Robin M. Murray

  • Homicide and schizophrenia: maybe treatment does have a preventive effect

    Martin Erb;Sheilagh Hodgins;Roland Freese;Rüdiger Müller-Isberner

  • Brain anatomy of persistent violent offenders: more rather than less.

    Jari Tiihonen;Roberta Rossi;Mikko P. Laakso;Sheilagh Hodgins

  • Adult outcomes of child conduct problems: a cohort study.

    Lynn Kratzer;Sheilagh Hodgins

  • Preventing crime by people with schizophrenic disorders: the role of psychiatric services

    Sheilagh Hodgins;R Muller-Isberner

  • The prevalence of major mental disorders among homicide offenders.

    Gilles Côté;Sheilagh Hodgins

  • Mental Disorder and Crime

    Sheilagh Hodgins;Sarnoff Mednick;Patricia A. Brennan;Fini Schulsinger

  • Amygdala-orbitofrontal structural and functional connectivity in females with anxiety disorders, with and without a history of conduct disorder.

    Philip Lindner;Pär Flodin;Peter Larm;Meenal Budhiraja

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristin R. Laurens
Kristin R. Laurens Queensland University of Technology
Mark A. Ellenbogen
Mark A. Ellenbogen Concordia University
Kent W. Nilsson
Kent W. Nilsson Uppsala University
Richard E. Tremblay
Richard E. Tremblay University of Montreal
Jussi Jokinen
Jussi Jokinen University of Jyväskylä
Frank Vitaro
Frank Vitaro University of Montreal
Essi Viding
Essi Viding University College London
Robin G. Morris
Robin G. Morris King's College London
Patricia A. Brennan
Patricia A. Brennan Emory University
Muhammad Riaz
Muhammad Riaz South China Agricultural University

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