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Overview

Wai Chen is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and medicine. Their work spans several key areas within these fields, including clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and genetics.

The scientist's publications frequently address topics such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional focus areas include mental health research topics, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum.

Wai Chen has contributed to multiple papers, some of which include:

  • Prevalence estimates of mental health problems in children and adolescents with intellectual disability: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Why is alexithymia a risk factor for affective disorder symptoms? The role of emotion regulation, 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • What is alexithymia? Using factor analysis to establish its latent structure and relationship with fantasizing and emotional reactivity, 2020, Journal of Personality
  • Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Mental Health in Children With Neurogenetic Disorders Associated With Intellectual Disability, 2020, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Assessing alexithymia: Psychometric properties of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire and 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale in United States adults, 2020, Personality and Individual Differences

Frequent co-authors in Wai Chen's research include:

  • David A. Preece
  • Jenny Downs
  • James J. Gross
  • Michael J. Kyron
  • Rodrigo Becerra

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in several journals, with notable frequency in:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • JMIR Human Factors
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Wai Chen's research largely intersects at the junction of psychological clinical practice and mental health disorders, focusing on developmental and emotional dimensions in children and adolescents, as well as the assessment and regulation of affective disorders. Their interdisciplinary approach encompasses both genetic and neurodevelopmental perspectives within mental health research.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association scan of quantitative traits for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder identifies novel associations and confirms candidate gene associations

    Jessica Lasky-Su;Benjamin M. Neale;Barbara Franke;Richard J.L. Anney

  • Emotional lability in children and adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): clinical correlates and familial prevalence.

    Esther Sobanski;Tobias Banaschewski;Philip Asherson;Jan Buitelaar

  • A common haplotype of the dopamine transporter gene associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and interacting with maternal use of alcohol during pregnancy.

    Keeley-Joanne Brookes;Jon Mill;Camilla Guindalini;Sarah Curran

  • Genome-wide association scan of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Benjamin M. Neale;Jessica Lasky-Su;Jessica Lasky-Su;Richard J.L. Anney;Barbara Franke

  • Autism symptoms in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Familial trait which Correlates with Conduct, Oppositional Defiant, Language and Motor Disorders

    Aisling Mulligan;Richard J. L. Anney;Myra O'Regan;Wai Chen

  • The influence of serotonin- and other genes on impulsive behavioral aggression and cognitive impulsivity in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Findings from a family-based association test (FBAT) analysis

    Robert D. Oades;Jessica Lasky-Su;Hanna Christiansen;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Reaction time performance in ADHD : improvement under fast-incentive condition and familial effects

    Penny Andreou;Benjamin M. Neale;Wai Chen;Hanna Christiansen

  • Infected Cell Protein (ICP)47 Enhances Herpes Simplex Virus Neurovirulence by Blocking the CD8+ T Cell Response

    Kimberley Goldsmith;Wai Chen;David C. Johnson;R L Hendricks

  • DSM-IV combined type ADHD shows familial association with sibling trait scores: a sampling strategy for QTL linkage.

    Wai Chen;Kaixin Zhou;Pak Sham;Barbara Franke

  • Performance variability, impulsivity errors and the impact of incentives as gender-independent endophenotypes for ADHD

    Henrik Uebel;Björn Albrecht;Philip Asherson;Norbert A. Börger

  • Prevalence estimates of mental health problems in children and adolescents with intellectual disability: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Nicholas Buckley;Emma J Glasson;Wai Chen;Amy Epstein

  • Dopamine and serotonin transporter genotypes moderate sensitivity to maternal expressed emotion: the case of conduct and emotional problems in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke;Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke;Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke;Robert D. Oades;Lamprini Psychogiou;Wai Chen;Wai Chen

  • Confirmation that a specific haplotype of the dopamine transporter gene is associated with combined-type ADHD

    Philip Asherson;Keeley Joane Brookes;Barbara Franke;Wai Chen

  • Association of fatty acid desaturase genes with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Keeley-Joanne Brookes;Wai Chen;Xiaohui Xu;Eric Taylor

  • The IMAGE project: methodological issues for the molecular genetic analysis of ADHD

    Jonna Kuntsi;Benjamin M Neale;Wai Chen;Stephen V Faraone

  • Conduct disorder and ADHD: evaluation of conduct problems as a categorical and quantitative trait in the international multicentre ADHD genetics study.

    Richard J.L. Anney;Jessica Lasky-Su;Colm Ó'Dúshláine;Elaine Kenny

  • No evidence for links between autism, MMR and measles virus.

    W Chen;Sabine Landau;Pak Sham;E Fombonne;E Fombonne

  • Adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: recognition and treatment in general adult psychiatry.

    Philip Asherson;Wai Chen;Bridget Craddock;Eric Taylor

  • Genome-wide association scan of the time to onset of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

    Jessica Lasky-Su;Richard J.L. Anney;Benjamin M. Neale;Barbara Franke

  • The analysis of 51 genes in DSM-IV combined type attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: association signals in DRD4, DAT1 and 16 other genes

    Keeley J. Brookes;Xiaohui Xu;Wai Chen;Kaixin Zhou

  • Association analysis of the DRD4 and COMT genes in methamphetamine abuse.

    Tao Li;Tao Li;Chi Ken Chen;Xun Hu;David Ball

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Christoph Steinhausen
Hans-Christoph Steinhausen University of Southern Denmark
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke King's College London
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Barbara Franke
Barbara Franke Radboud University
Michael Gill
Michael Gill Trinity College Dublin
Ana Miranda
Ana Miranda University of Valencia
Herbert Roeyers
Herbert Roeyers Ghent University
Richard P. Ebstein
Richard P. Ebstein Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Margaret Thompson
Margaret Thompson University of Southampton
Benjamin M. Neale
Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University

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