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  1. Variable Emergence of Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptoms From Childhood to Early Adulthood

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, August 2021, American Psychiatric Association

    Anita Thapar

  2. Infant Neuromotor Development: An Early Indicator of Genetic Liability for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, January 2020, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  3. Recent advances in the genetics of preterm birth

    Article • Annals of Human Genetics, December 2019, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  4. Disentangling nature from nurture in examining the interplay between parent–child relationships, ADHD, and early academic attainment

    Article • Psychological Medicine, December 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  5. A brief report: de novo copy number variants in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • December 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anita Thapar

  6. Using Genetics to Examine a General Liability to Childhood Psychopathology

    Article • Behavior Genetics, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  7. Genetic liability to ADHD and substance use disorders in individuals with ADHD

    Article • Addiction, December 2019, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  8. Identifying Novel Types of Irritability Using a Developmental Genetic Approach

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, August 2019, American Psychiatric Association

    Anita Thapar

  9. Association of Maternal Neurodevelopmental Risk Alleles With Early-Life Exposures

    Article • JAMA Psychiatry, August 2019, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Anita Thapar

  10. A risk calculator to predict adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: generation and external validation in three birth cohorts and one clinical sample - ERRATUM

    Article • Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, July 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  11. Adult mood problems in children with neurodevelopmental problems: evidence from a prospective birth cohort followed to age 50

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  12. A risk calculator to predict adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: generation and external validation in three birth cohorts and one clinical sample

    Article • Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, May 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  13. A cross-disorder MR-pheWAS of 5 major psychiatric disorders in UK Biobank

    Article • May 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anita Thapar

  14. ADHD genetic liability and physical health outcomes - A two-sample Mendelian randomization study

    Article • May 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anita Thapar

  15. Cross‐cohort change in adolescent outcomes for children with mental health problems

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, April 2019, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  16. Childhood neurodevelopmental difficulties and risk of adolescent depression: the role of irritability

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, March 2019, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  17. Irritability in ADHD: association with later depression symptoms

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  18. Do natural experiments have an important future in the study of mental disorders?

    Article • Psychological Medicine, January 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  19. Adolescent and adult differences in major depression symptom profiles

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, January 2019, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  20. Developmental Contributions of Schizophrenia Risk Alleles and Childhood Peer Victimization to Early-Onset Mental Health Trajectories

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, January 2019, American Psychiatric Association

    Anita Thapar

  21. Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Article • Nature Genetics, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  22. Advances in our understanding of the genetics of childhood neurodevelopmental disorders

    Article • Evidence-Based Mental Health, October 2018, BMJ

    Anita Thapar

  23. Characterizing Developmental Trajectories and the Role of Neuropsychiatric Genetic Risk Variants in Early-Onset Depression

    Article • JAMA Psychiatry, October 2018, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Anita Thapar

  24. Identifying novel subtypes of irritability using a developmental genetic approach

    Article • October 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anita Thapar

  25. Discoveries on the Genetics of ADHD in the 21st Century: New Findings and Their Implications

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, October 2018, American Psychiatric Association

    Anita Thapar

  26. The contribution of psychiatric risk alleles to a general liability to psychopathology in early life

    Article • September 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anita Thapar

  27. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms as antecedents of later psychotic outcomes in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, August 2018, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar, Dr. Carrie E Bearden

  28. Identifying the contribution of prenatal risk factors to offspring development and psychopathology: What designs to use and a critique of literature on maternal smoking and stress in pregnancy

    Article • Development and Psychopathology, August 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  29. Facial Emotion Recognition and Eye Gaze in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder With and Without Comorbid Conduct Disorder

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, August 2018, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  30. Resilience in high-risk adolescents of mothers with recurrent depressive disorder: The contribution of fathers

    Article • Journal of Adolescence, June 2018, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  31. A Genetic Investigation of Sex Bias in the Prevalence of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, June 2018, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  32. Psychoeducational interventions in adolescent depression: A systematic review

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, May 2018, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  33. Association of copy number variation across the genome with neuropsychiatric traits in the general population

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics, April 2018, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  34. Investigating late-onset ADHD: a population cohort investigation

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, April 2018, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  35. Sex-specific manifestation of genetic risk for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in the general population

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, February 2018, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  36. A Web-Based Psychoeducational Intervention for Adolescent Depression: Design and Development of MoodHwb

    Article • JMIR Mental Health, February 2018, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Anita Thapar

  37. The impact of schizophrenia and mood disorder risk alleles on emotional problems: investigating change from childhood to middle age

    Article • Psychological Medicine, December 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  38. The presentation of depression symptoms in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: comparing child and parent reports

    Article • Child and Adolescent Mental Health, November 2017, Wiley

    Annie Fraser, Anita Thapar

  39. Oxytocin increases attention to the eyes and selectively enhances self-reported affective empathy for fear

    Article • Neuropsychologia, November 2017, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  40. The WPA- Lancet Psychiatry Commission on the Future of Psychiatry

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, October 2017, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  41. Investigating the genetic underpinnings of early-life irritability

    Article • Translational Psychiatry, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  42. Parent Psychopathology and Neurocognitive Functioning in Children With ADHD

    Article • Journal of Attention Disorders, July 2017, SAGE Publications

    Anita Thapar

  43. A genetic investigation of sex bias in the prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • June 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anita Thapar

  44. Discovery Of The First Genome-Wide Significant Risk Loci For ADHD

    Article • June 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Anita Thapar

  45. Irritability in ADHD: Associations with depression liability

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, June 2017, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  46. Shared genetic influences between dimensional ASD and ADHD symptoms during child and adolescent development

    Article • Molecular Autism, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  47. Acetaminophen in Pregnancy and Adverse Childhood Neurodevelopment—Reply

    Article • JAMA Pediatrics, April 2017, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Anita Thapar

  48. Neurodevelopmental disorders

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, April 2017, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  49. Antecedents of New-Onset Major Depressive Disorder in Children and Adolescents at High Familial Risk

    Article • JAMA Psychiatry, February 2017, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Anita Thapar

  50. Intellectual Disability and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: What Does the Clinical and Genetic Overlap Mean for Practice and Research?

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, February 2017, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  51. Schizophrenia risk alleles and neurodevelopmental outcomes in childhood: a population-based cohort study

    Article • The Lancet Psychiatry, January 2017, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  52. Association of Genetic Risk Variants With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Trajectories in the General Population

    Article • JAMA Psychiatry, December 2016, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Anita Thapar

  53. Association of Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy With Behavioral Problems in Childhood

    Article • JAMA Pediatrics, October 2016, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Anita Thapar

  54. Prevalence and correlates of psychotic experiences amongst children of depressed parents

    Article • Psychiatry Research, September 2016, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  55. Identifying key parent-reported symptoms for detecting depression in high risk adolescents

    Article • Psychiatry Research, August 2016, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  56. Cortisol levels at baseline and under stress in adolescent males with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, with or without comorbid conduct disorder

    Article • Psychiatry Research, August 2016, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  57. Do better executive functions buffer the effect of current parental depression on adolescent depressive symptoms?

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, July 2016, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  58. Association of Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia With Nonparticipation Over Time in a Population-Based Cohort Study

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anita Thapar

  59. Pathway analysis in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: An ensemble approach

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics, March 2016, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  60. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • The Lancet, March 2016, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  61. Examining whether offspring psychopathology influences illness course in mothers with recurrent depression using a high-risk longitudinal sample.

    Article • Journal of Abnormal Psychology, February 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Anita Thapar

  62. Salivary Oxytocin Concentrations in Males following Intranasal Administration of Oxytocin: A Double-Blind, Cross-Over Study

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2015, PLOS

    Anita Thapar

  63. In Reply

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, October 2015, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  64. Profiling depression in childhood and adolescence: the role of conduct problems

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, September 2015, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  65. The clinical presentation of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics, September 2015, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  66. Identifying mechanisms that underlie links betweenCOMTgenotype and aggression in male adolescents with ADHD

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, September 2015, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  67. Emotion Regulation in Adolescent Males with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Testing the Effects of Comorbid Conduct Disorder

    Article • Brain Sciences, September 2015, MDPI AG

    Anita Thapar

  68. Correction: Association between Maternal Depression Symptoms across the First Eleven Years of Their Child's Life and Subsequent Offspring Suicidal Ideation

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2015, PLOS

    Anita Thapar

  69. Longitudinal symptom course in adults with recurrent depression: Impact on impairment and risk of psychopathology in offspring

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, August 2015, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  70. Pain Sensitivity in Adolescent Males with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Testing for Associations with Conduct Disorder and Callous and Unemotional Traits

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2015, PLOS

    Anita Thapar

  71. Association between Maternal Depression Symptoms across the First Eleven Years of Their Child’s Life and Subsequent Offspring Suicidal Ideation

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2015, PLOS

    Anita Thapar

  72. Parents and Genes and Their Effects on Alcohol, Drugs, and Crime in Triparental Families

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, June 2015, American Psychiatric Association

    Anita Thapar

  73. Pathways to Suicide-Related Behavior in Offspring of Mothers With Depression: The Role of Offspring Psychopathology

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, May 2015, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  74. Shared Genetic Influences Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Traits in Children and Clinical ADHD

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, April 2015, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  75. Affective bias and current, past and future adolescent depression: A familial high risk study

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, March 2015, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  76. Joint Analysis of Psychiatric Disorders Increases Accuracy of Risk Prediction for Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Dorret I Boomsma, Anita Thapar, Professor, Director Gunnar Morken

  77. The relative contribution of common and rare genetic variants to ADHD

    Article • Translational Psychiatry, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  78. Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, January 2015, Nature

    Anita Thapar, Professor, Director Gunnar Morken

  79. ADHD severity is associated with white matter microstructure in the subgenual cingulum

    Article • NeuroImage Clinical, January 2015, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  80. Maternal caregiving and girls' depressive symptom and antisocial behavior trajectories: An examination among high-risk youth

    Article • Development and Psychopathology, November 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  81. Neurocognitive abilities in the general population and composite genetic risk scores for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, October 2014, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  82. Genetic Risk for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Contributes to Neurodevelopmental Traits in the General Population

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, October 2014, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  83. Editorial Perspective: Why is there such a mismatch between traditional heritability estimates and molecular genetic findings for behavioural traits?

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, August 2014, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  84. Biological Overlap of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evidence From Copy Number Variants

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, July 2014, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  85. Trends in parent- and teacher-rated emotional, conduct and ADHD problems and their impact in prepubertal children in Great Britain: 1999-2008

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, June 2014, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  86. A longitudinal high‐risk study of adolescent anxiety, depression and parent‐severity on the developmental course of risk‐adjustment

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, June 2014, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  87. Reported child awareness of parental depression

    Article • Psychiatric Bulletin, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  88. White Matter Microstructure Predicts Autistic Traits in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  89. Genetic variation associated with euphorigenic effects of d -amphetamine is associated with diminished risk for schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Anita Thapar

  90. Antenatal Acetaminophen Use and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Article • JAMA Pediatrics, April 2014, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Anita Thapar

  91. Common adolescent mental disorders: transition to adulthood

    Article • The Lancet, April 2014, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  92. Validation of a composite of suicide items from the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) in offspring of recurrently depressed parents

    Article • Psychiatry Research, April 2014, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  93. Precursors to aggression are evident by 6 months of age

    Article • Developmental Science, February 2014, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  94. Genetic Associations Between the Symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Emotional Lability in Child and Adolescent Twins

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, February 2014, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  95. Commentary: Maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and offspring ADHD: a lesson in the importance of testing causal pathways

    Article • International Journal of Epidemiology, January 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anita Thapar

  96. Psychopathology and cognition in children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, January 2014, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  97. Detecting recurrent major depressive disorder within primary care rapidly and reliably using short questionnaire measures

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, December 2013, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Anita Thapar

  98. The Depression Impairment Scale for Parents (DISP): A new scale for the measurement of impairment in depressed parents

    Article • Psychiatry Research, December 2013, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  99. Specific Parental Depression Symptoms as Risk Markers for New-Onset Depression in High-Risk Offspring

    Article • The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, September 2013, Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc

    Anita Thapar

  100. Biological and rearing mother influences on child ADHD symptoms: revisiting the developmental interface between nature and nurture

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, September 2013, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  101. Intellectual Disability in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

    Article • The Journal of Pediatrics, September 2013, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  102. Depression and blood pressure in high-risk children and adolescents: an investigation using two longitudinal cohorts

    Article • BMJ Open, September 2013, BMJ

    Anita Thapar

  103. Parent–child hostility and child and adolescent depression symptoms: the direction of effects, role of genetic factors and gender

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  104. Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    Article • Nature Genetics, August 2013, Nature

    Anita Thapar, Professor, Director Gunnar Morken

  105. Copy Number Variation: What Is It and What Has It Told Us About Child Psychiatric Disorders?

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, August 2013, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  106. High Loading of Polygenic Risk for ADHD in Children With Comorbid Aggression

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, August 2013, American Psychiatric Association

    Anita Thapar

  107. Shared polygenic contribution between childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and adult schizophrenia

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, August 2013, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  108. The internet is parents' main source of information about psychiatric manifestations of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS)

    Article • European Journal of Medical Genetics, August 2013, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  109. Association between obesity and depressive disorder in adolescents at high risk for depression

    Article • International Journal of Obesity, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  110. Maternal depression and co-occurring antisocial behaviour: testing maternal hostility and warmth as mediators of risk for offspring psychopathology

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, June 2013, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  111. Factor Structure of Autistic Traits in Children with ADHD

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  112. Polygenic transmission and complex neuro developmental network for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Genome-wide association study of both common and rare variants

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics, May 2013, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  113. A Direct Method of Assessing Underlying Cognitive Risk for Adolescent Depression

    Article • Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  114. Autistic traits in children with ADHD index clinical and cognitive problems

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  115. Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis

    Article • The Lancet, April 2013, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar, Professor, Director Gunnar Morken

  116. Are parental ADHD problems associated with a more severe clinical presentation and greater family adversity in children with ADHD?

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  117. Examining the role of passive gene–environment correlation in childhood depression using a novel genetically sensitive design

    Article • Development and Psychopathology, February 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  118. The nature of nurture: Disentangling passive genotype–environment correlation from family relationship influences on children's externalizing problems.

    Article • Journal of Family Psychology, February 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Anita Thapar

  119. Do parents know best? Parent-reported vs. child-reported depression symptoms as predictors of future child mood disorder in a high-risk sample

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, December 2012, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  120. The ADHD debate: being mindful of complexity and wary of reductionist explanations and polarization

    Article • Journal of Family Therapy, November 2012, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  121. Shared biological risks that influence brain and behaviour

    Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, October 2012, BMJ

    Anita Thapar

  122. Interparental conflict, parent psychopathology, hostile parenting, and child antisocial behavior: Examining the role of maternal versus paternal influences using a novel genetically sensitive research design

    Article • Development and Psychopathology, October 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  123. Risk of psychopathology in adolescent offspring of mothers with psychopathology and recurrent depression

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, October 2012, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  124. Practitioner Review: What have we learnt about the causes of ADHD?

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, September 2012, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  125. Trajectories of change in self-reported psychotic-like experiences in childhood and adolescence

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, September 2012, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  126. Maternal and Paternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk of ADHD Symptoms in Offspring: Testing for Intrauterine Effects

    Article • American Journal of Epidemiology, July 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anita Thapar

  127. Missed opportunities: mental disorder in children of parents with depression

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, July 2012, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Anita Thapar

  128. Estimating the costs of ongoing care for adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  129. ‘The risks of playing it safe’: a prospective longitudinal study of response to reward in the adolescent offspring of depressed parents

    Article • Psychological Medicine, May 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  130. Review: psychological and educational interventions may reduce risk of depressive disorders in children and adolescents

    Article • Evidence-Based Mental Health, May 2012, BMJ

    Anita Thapar

  131. Depression in adolescence

    Article • The Lancet, March 2012, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  132. The association between early autistic traits and psychotic experiences in adolescence

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, March 2012, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  133. Genome-Wide Analysis of Copy Number Variants in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: The Role of Rare Variants and Duplications at 15q13.3

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, February 2012, American Psychiatric Association

    Anita Thapar

  134. Investigating the Contribution of Common Genetic Variants to the Risk and Pathogenesis of ADHD

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, February 2012, American Psychiatric Association

    Anita Thapar

  135. Offspring of parents with recurrent depression: Which features of parent depression index risk for offspring psychopathology?

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, January 2012, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  136. Clinical and cognitive characteristics of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, with and without copy number variants

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, November 2011, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  137. Using a genetically informative design to examine the relationship between breastfeeding and childhood conduct problems

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  138. Genome-wide association study in German patients with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics, October 2011, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  139. What causes attention deficit hyperactivity disorder?

    Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, September 2011, BMJ

    Anita Thapar

  140. Known Risk Factors for Violence Predict 12-Month-Old Infants’ Aggressiveness With Peers

    Article • Psychological Science, August 2011, SAGE Publications

    Anita Thapar

  141. Depression screening for patients with epilepsy in a primary care setting using the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 and the Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory for Epilepsy

    Article • Epilepsy & Behavior, August 2011, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  142. Maternal Depression and Child and Adolescent Depression Symptoms: An Exploratory Test for Moderation by CRHR1, FKBP5 and NR3C1 Gene Variants

    Article • Behavior Genetics, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  143. Investigating Environmental Links Between Parent Depression and Child Depressive/Anxiety Symptoms Using an Assisted Conception Design

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, May 2011, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  144. Neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, March 2011, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  145. Prevalence of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, March 2011, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  146. Steroid sulfatase is a potential modifier of cognition in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • Genes Brain & Behavior, January 2011, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  147. Genotype Link With Extreme Antisocial Behavior

    Article • Archives of General Psychiatry, December 2010, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Anita Thapar

  148. Identifying early signs of aggression: psychometric properties of the cardiff infant contentiousness scale

    Article • Aggressive Behavior, October 2010, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  149. Rare chromosomal deletions and duplications in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a genome-wide analysis

    Article • The Lancet, October 2010, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  150. Familial transmission of depression and antisocial behavior symptoms: disentangling the contribution of inherited and environmental factors and testing the mediating role of parenting

    Article • Psychological Medicine, September 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  151. Case-Control Genome-Wide Association Study of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, September 2010, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  152. Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, September 2010, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  153. Fitting the pieces together: current research on the genetic basis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

    Article • Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Anita Thapar

  154. Estimating the relative contributions of maternal genetic, paternal genetic and intrauterine factors to offspring birth weight and head circumference

    Article • Early Human Development, July 2010, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  155. Bipolar spectrum disorders in primary care: optimising diagnosis and treatment

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, May 2010, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Anita Thapar

  156. Adolescent clinical outcomes for young people with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, March 2010, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  157. Managing and preventing depression in adolescents

    Article • BMJ, January 2010, BMJ

    Anita Thapar

  158. Gene-Environment Interactions

    Article • Archives of General Psychiatry, December 2009, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Anita Thapar

  159. Psychopathy trait scores in adolescents with childhood ADHD: the contribution of genotypes affecting MAOA, 5HTT and COMT activity

    Article • Psychiatric Genetics, December 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Anita Thapar

  160. Should We Be Rethinking How We Assess and Manage ADHD?

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, November 2009, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  161. Prenatal Smoking Might Not Cause Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence from a Novel Design

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, October 2009, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  162. Dissecting the phenotype in genome-wide association studies of psychiatric illness

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, August 2009, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  163. Do prenatal risk factors cause psychiatric disorder? Be wary of causal claims

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, July 2009, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  164. Parent-child hostility and child ADHD symptoms: a genetically sensitive and longitudinal analysis

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, June 2009, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  165. Associations between maternal older age, family environment and parent and child wellbeing in families using assisted reproductive techniques to conceive

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, June 2009, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  166. The links between prenatal stress and offspring development and psychopathology: disentangling environmental and inherited influences

    Article • Psychological Medicine, May 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  167. Genomewide Association Studies: History, Rationale, and Prospects for Psychiatric Disorders

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, May 2009, American Psychiatric Association

    Anita Thapar

  168. Evidence-based guidelines for treating bipolar disorder: revised second edition—recommendations from the British Association for Psychopharmacology

    Article • Journal of Psychopharmacology, March 2009, SAGE Publications

    Anita Thapar, David Coghill

  169. An Overview on the Genetics of ADHD

    Article • Acta Psychologica Sinica, March 2009, China Science Publishing & Media Ltd.

    Anita Thapar

  170. Disentangling prenatal and inherited influences in humans with an experimental design

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Anita Thapar

  171. NK1 (TACR1) receptor gene ‘knockout’ mouse phenotype predicts genetic association with ADHD

    Article • Journal of Psychopharmacology, February 2009, SAGE Publications

    Anita Thapar

  172. Psychopathy traits in adolescents with childhood attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, January 2009, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  173. Stress, anxiety, depression, and epilepsy: Investigating the relationship between psychological factors and seizures

    Article • Epilepsy & Behavior, January 2009, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  174. Genetic influences on the development of childhood psychiatric disorders

    Article • Psychiatry, July 2008, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  175. Molecular genetic contribution to the developmental course of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, June 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  176. A Replicated Molecular Genetic Basis for Subtyping Antisocial Behavior in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Article • Archives of General Psychiatry, February 2008, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Anita Thapar

  177. Psychopathology in children and adolescents with epilepsy: An investigation of predictive variables

    Article • Epilepsy & Behavior, January 2008, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  178. Parent–Child Relationships and ADHD Symptoms: A Longitudinal Analysis

    Article • Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, September 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  179. Mental Health and Functional Outcomes of Maternal and Adolescent Reports of Adolescent Depressive Symptoms

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, September 2007, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar, Professor Julio Escribano

  180. Agreement between maternal report and antenatal records for a range of pre and peri-natal factors: The influence of maternal and child characteristics

    Article • Early Human Development, August 2007, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  181. Do intrauterine or genetic influences explain the foetal origins of chronic disease? A novel experimental method for disentangling effects

    Article • BMC Medical Research Methodology, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  182. Effects of low birth weight, maternal smoking in pregnancy and social class on the phenotypic manifestation of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and associated antisocial behaviour: investigation in a clinical sample

    Article • BMC Psychiatry, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  183. Genetic and environmental influences on the relationship between peer alcohol use and own alcohol use in adolescents

    Article • Addiction, June 2007, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  184. Advances in genetic findings on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • Psychological Medicine, May 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  185. Exploring the relationship between genetic and environmental influences on initiation and progression of substance use

    Article • Addiction, March 2007, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  186. The impact of gestational stress and prenatal growth on emotional problems in offspring: a review

    Article • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, March 2007, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  187. Clinical Precursors of Adolescent Conduct Disorder in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, February 2007, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  188. The Cardiff Study of All Wales and North West of England Twins (CaStANET): A Longitudinal Research Program of Child and Adolescent Development

    Article • Twin Research and Human Genetics, February 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  189. Differential dopamine receptor D4 allele association with ADHD dependent of proband season of birth

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics, January 2007, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  190. Testing for gene × environment interaction effects in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and associated antisocial behavior

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics, January 2007, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  191. Gene–environment interplay in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and the importance of a developmental perspective

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, January 2007, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  192. The Association between Conduct Problems and the Initiation and Progression of Marijuana Use during Adolescence: A Genetic Analysis across Time

    Article • Behavior Genetics, November 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  193. Phenotypic variation between parent–offspring trios and non-trios in genetic studies of schizophrenia

    Article • Journal of Psychiatric Research, October 2006, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  194. Twin Studies in Pediatric Depression

    Article • Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, October 2006, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  195. Relationship between disabling fatigue and depression in children

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, September 2006, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  196. Family Conflict Interacts With Genetic Liability in Predicting Childhood and Adolescent Depression

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, July 2006, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  197. Refining the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder phenotype for molecular genetic studies

    Article • Molecular Psychiatry, May 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  198. The effect of birth-weight with genetic susceptibility on depressive symptoms in childhood and adolescence

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, April 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  199. Predictors of antisocial behaviour in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  200. Catechol O-Methyltransferase Gene Variant and Birth Weight Predict Early-Onset Antisocial Behavior in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Article • Archives of General Psychiatry, November 2005, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Anita Thapar

  201. Do depression symptoms predict seizure frequency—or vice versa?

    Article • Journal of Psychosomatic Research, November 2005, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  202. The genetics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • Human Molecular Genetics, October 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anita Thapar

  203. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with reading disabilities: preliminary genetic findings on the involvement of the ADRA2A gene

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, October 2005, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  204. The Link between Depression in Mothers and Offspring: An Extended Twin Analysis

    Article • Behavior Genetics, September 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  205. The definition of disabling fatigue in children and adolescents

    Article • BMC Family Practice, August 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  206. Relationship between antisocial behaviour, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and maternal prenatal smoking

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, August 2005, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  207. Twins Born Following Fertility Treatment: Implications for Quantitative Genetic Studies

    Article • Twin Research and Human Genetics, August 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Anita Thapar

  208. A Family Based Study Implicates Solute Carrier Family 1–Member 3 (SLC1A3) Gene in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, June 2005, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  209. Association of the paternally transmitted copy of common Valine allele of the Val66Met polymorphism of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene with susceptibility to ADHD

    Article • Molecular Psychiatry, May 2005, Nature

    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald, Anita Thapar

  210. Characterizing the ADHD phenotype for genetic studies

    Article • Developmental Science, March 2005, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  211. No support for association between the dopamine transporter (DAT1) gene and ADHD

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics, January 2005, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  212. A family based study of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics, January 2005, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  213. A population-based study of anxiety as a precursor for depression in childhood and adolescence

    Article • BMC Psychiatry, December 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  214. No evidence of association between Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT) Val 158 Met genotype and performance on neuropsychological tasks in children with ADHD: A case-control study

    Article • BMC Psychiatry, June 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  215. Prevalence of chronic disabling fatigue in children and adolescents

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, June 2004, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  216. Joint Analysis of the DRD5 Marker Concludes Association with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Confined to the Predominantly Inattentive and Combined Subtypes

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, February 2004, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  217. Follow-up of genetic linkage findings on chromosome 16p13: evidence of association of N-methyl-D aspartate glutamate receptor 2A gene polymorphism with ADHD

    Article • Molecular Psychiatry, January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  218. Direct analysis of the genes encoding G proteins G?T2, G?o, G?Z in ADHD

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics, January 2004, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  219. Association of the Dopamine D4Receptor Gene 7-Repeat Allele With Neuropsychological Test Performance of Children With ADHD

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, January 2004, American Psychiatric Association

    Anita Thapar

  220. The Child Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Teacher Telephone Interview (CHATTI): reliability and validity

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, January 2004, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  221. Chromosome 22q11 deletions, velo-cardio-facial syndrome and early-onset psychosis

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, November 2003, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  222. Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms in Offspring

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, November 2003, American Psychiatric Association

    Anita Thapar

  223. Depressive symptoms in children and adolescents: changing aetiological influences with development

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, October 2003, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  224. Negative life events as an account of age-related differences in the genetic aetiology of depression in childhood and adolescence

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, October 2003, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  225. No evidence of association between HLA-DRB1 and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • Psychiatric Genetics, September 2003, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Anita Thapar

  226. Association between PRODH and schizophrenia is not confirmed

    Article • Molecular Psychiatry, July 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  227. Article • Psychiatric Genetics, June 2003, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Anita Thapar

  228. Association analysis of monoamine oxidase a and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics, December 2002, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  229. Assessing the effects of age, sex and shared environment on the genetic aetiology of depression in childhood and adolescence

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, November 2002, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  230. Evidence to suggest biased phenotypes in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder from completely ascertained trios

    Article • Molecular Psychiatry, October 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  231. Serotonergic system and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a potential susceptibility locus at the 5-HT1B receptor gene in 273 nuclear families from a multi-centre sample

    Article • Molecular Psychiatry, August 2002, Nature

    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald, Anita Thapar

  232. Is primary care ready to take on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?

    Article • BMC Family Practice, April 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  233. Association of DRD4 in children with ADHD and comorbid conduct problems

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics, February 2002, Wiley

    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald, Anita Thapar

  234. Article • Behavior Genetics, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  235. The genetic aetiology of childhood depression: a review

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, January 2002, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  236. No association between CHRNA7 microsatellite markers and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics, December 2001, Wiley

    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald, Anita Thapar

  237. Susceptibility genes for a trait measure of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a pilot study in a non-clinical sample of twins

    Article • Psychiatry Research, December 2001, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  238. Examining the comorbidity of ADHD-related behaviours and conduct problems using a twin study design

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, September 2001, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  239. Examining for association between candidate gene polymorphisms in the dopamine pathway and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: A family-based study

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics, January 2001, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  240. Does the Definition of ADHD Affect Heritability?

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, December 2000, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  241. A family-based and case-control association study of the dopamine D4 receptor gene and dopamine transporter gene in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Article • Molecular Psychiatry, September 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  242. Genetic basis of attention deficit and hyperactivity

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, February 1999, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  243. Life Events and Depressive Symptoms in Childhood — Shared Genes or Shared Adversity? A Research Note

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, November 1998, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  244. Validity of the shortened Mood and Feelings Questionnaire in a community sample of children and adolescents: a preliminary research note

    Article • Psychiatry Research, November 1998, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  245. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: unravelling the molecular genetics

    Article • Molecular Psychiatry, September 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  246. Genes and social skills

    Article • BioEssays, December 1997, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  247. Attitudes of general practitioners towards health care for people with intellectual disability and the factors underlying these attitudes

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, October 1997, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  248. Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in Childhood?A Genetic Study of Comorbidity

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, September 1997, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  249. Genetic basis of bad behaviour in adolescents

    Article • The Lancet, August 1997, Elsevier

    Anita Thapar

  250. Childhood hyperactivity scores are highly heritable and show sibling competition effects: Twin study evidence

    Article • Behavior Genetics, November 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Thapar

  251. Are Anxiety Symptoms in Childhood Heritable?

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, March 1995, Wiley

    Anita Thapar

  252. A Twin Study of Depressive Symptoms in Childhood

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, August 1994, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  253. The Genetics of Mental Retardation

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, June 1994, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar

  254. The Genetics of Personality Disorder

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, January 1992, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Anita Thapar