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Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
|MPhil/PhD/MD(Res)
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- Current number of research students: 9.
- Recent publications: Child, family, school and community risk factors for poor mental health in Brazilian schoolchildren; Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Task specific hypoactivation in medication-naïve adolescents with ADHD during motor and cognitive inhibition and task switching. Am Journal of Psych; ADHD symptoms in children with mild intellectual disability. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatric disorder among British children looked after by local authorities: a comparison with children living in private households. British Journal of Psychiatry; Neuro-epileptic determinants of autism spectrum disorders in tuberous sclerosis complex. Brain 2002.
- Current research projects in the department: Parenting intervention program; Treatment foster care; Functional imaging in normal development and child psychiatric disorders; Neuropsychology of impulsiveness; Outcome and genetics of ADHD.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Emily Simonoff.
Duration
Three years FT; six years PT. Accelerated PT rates available - email iop.educationsupport@kcl.ac.uk for further information. Registration is carried out at four points in the year: October, January, April and July.
Location
King's Denmark Hill Campus
Student destinations
Students have become senior lecturers at the Institute; continued
research; gained MRC fellowships; become consultant psychiatrists; become professors.
Year of entry 2012
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