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Thomas W. Teasdale

Thomas W. Teasdale

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D-Index
47
Citations
9905
World Ranking
6136
National Ranking
19

Overview

Thomas W. Teasdale is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research spans several key fields, including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Psychology, and Mathematics. Within these areas, their work touches on specific subfields such as Genetics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Applied Mathematics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Geometry and Topology.

The scientific contributions of Thomas W. Teasdale focus on diverse topics, primarily in cognitive and genetic domains. These include:

  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Point processes and geometric inequalities
  • Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
  • Morphological variations and asymmetry

Their recent published papers cover notable aspects of intelligence trends and brain science, reflecting interests at the intersection of psychology, genetics, and neurodevelopment. Selected papers include:

  • The secular trend of intelligence test scores: The Danish experience for young men born between 1940 and 2000, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Is There a Correlation Between the Number of Brain Cells and IQ?, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • The secular trend of intelligence test scores in the present century: The Danish experience, 2021, Intelligence

These publications examine longitudinal intelligence trends using Danish population data and explore neurobiological correlates of IQ. The venues in which Thomas W. Teasdale frequently publishes include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Intelligence

Collaboration is a feature of their scientific work. Frequent co-authors include Emilie Rune Hegelund, Lonny Stokholm, Merete Osler, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, and Kaare Christensen, indicating interdisciplinary teamwork across epidemiology, genetics, and cognitive science.

Best Publications

  • An adoption study of human obesity.

    Albert J. Stunkard;Thorkild I.A. Sørensen;Thorkild I.A. Sørensen;Thorkild I.A. Sørensen;Craig Hanis;Craig Hanis;Craig Hanis;Thomas W. Teasdale;Thomas W. Teasdale;Thomas W. Teasdale

  • Genetic and environmental influences on premature death in adult adoptees

    Thorkild I.A. Sørensen;Gert G. Nielsen;Per Kragh Andersen;Thomas W. Teasdale

  • Suicide after traumatic brain injury: a population study

    T W Teasdale;A W Engberg

  • Perinatal complications and clinical outcome within the schizophrenia spectrum.

    J. Parnas;F. Schulsinger;T. W. Teasdale;H. Schulsinger

  • Behavioral precursors of schizophrenia spectrum: A prospective study.

    Josef Parnas;Fini Schulsinger;Hanne Schulsinger;Sarnoff A. Mednick

  • Subjective experience in brain-injured patients and their close relatives : A European Brain Injury Questionnaire study

    Thomas W. Teasdale;Anne-Lise Christensen;Klaus Willmes;Gérard Deloche

  • Secular declines in cognitive test scores: A reversal of the Flynn Effect

    Thomas W. Teasdale;David R. Owen

  • Heredity and familial environment in intelligence and educational level—a sibling study

    T. W. Teasdale;David R. Owen

  • Psychometric Properties of the Danish Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire: The SDQ Assessed for More than 70,000 Raters in Four Different Cohorts

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  • A prospective study of young men at high risk for alcoholism: school behavior and achievement.

    Joachim Knop;Thomas W. Teasdale;Fini Schulsinger;Donald W. Goodwin

  • Psychosocial outcome following traumatic brain injury in adults: a long-term population-based follow-up.

    A. W. Engberg;T. W. Teasdale

  • A long-term rise and recent decline in intelligence test performance: The Flynn Effect in reverse

    Thomas W. Teasdale;David R. Owen

  • Cerebral ventricular size in the offspring of schizophrenic mothers. A preliminary study.

    Fini Schulsinger;Josef Parnas;Erling T. Petersen;Hanne Schulsinger

  • Intelligence as measured by the WAIS and a military draft board group test

    E. L. Mortensen;J. M. Reinisch;T. W. Teasdale

  • Continuing secular increases in intelligence and a stable prevalence of high intelligence levels

    T.W. Teasdale;David R. Owen

  • A prospective study of young men at high risk for alcoholism: neuropsychological assessment.

    Kirsten Drejer;Alice Theikjaard;Thomas W. Teasdale;Fini Schulsinger

  • Suicide after a stroke: a population study

    Thomas William Teasdale;Aase W. Engberg

  • The Danish draft board's intelligence test, Børge Priens Prøve: psychometric properties and research applications through 50 years.

    Thomas W. Teasdale

  • Forty-Year Secular Trends in Cognitive Abilties

    T.W Teasdale;David R Owen

  • A prospective study of young men at high risk for alcoholism. Social and psychological characteristics.

    F Schulsinger;J Knop;D W Goodwin;T W Teasdale

  • The Copenhagen high-risk project. The diagnosis of maternal schizophrenia and its relation to offspring diagnosis.

    Å. Jørgensen;Thomas W. Teasdale;Josef Parnas;Fini Schulsinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara A. Wilson
Barbara A. Wilson St George's, University of London
Klaus Willmes
Klaus Willmes RWTH Aachen University
Alexandre Castro-Caldas
Alexandre Castro-Caldas Catholic University of Portugal
Ranajit Chakraborty
Ranajit Chakraborty University of North Texas Health Science Center
Erik Lykke Mortensen
Erik Lykke Mortensen University of Copenhagen
Martial Van der Linden
Martial Van der Linden University of Geneva
Jonathan Evans
Jonathan Evans University of Glasgow
Tom Manly
Tom Manly MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

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