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Place of Birth: Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
About Christopher Gillberg
- Lars Christopher Gillberg (born 19 April 1950), who has sometimes published as Gillberg and Gillberg with his wife Carina Gillberg, is a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Gothenburg University in Gothenburg, Sweden, and an honorary professor at the Institute of Child Health (ICH), University College London.
- He has also been a visiting professor at the universities of Bergen, New York, Odense, St George's (University of London), San Francisco, and Glasgow and Strathclyde.Christopher Gillberg's extensive research (more than 500 publications indexed on the PubMed data base), has significantly contributed to the field of child and adolescent neuropsychiatry/developmental medicine in areas such as autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, epilepsy, intellectual disability, oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder, Tourette syndrome and anorexia nervosa.
- He is the most productive researcher of autism in the world.
- His research ranges from basic neuroscience, genetics and epidemiology, through to clinical presentations and prognosis, intervention and treatment.
- He is the founding editor of the journal European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and is the author and editor of many scientific and educational books and has written at least 30 books in these fields, which have been published in a wide variety of languages. The media company Thomson Reuters have listed the researchers most frequently cited in a range of scientific journals deemed the world's most prestigious.
- Christopher Gillberg is among 15 Swedish researchers within the field of medicine featured in the list.
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