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Overview
I am a senior lecturer based at the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health and am part of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry group within the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics. My research investigates young people’s mental health using an interdisciplinary approach, integrating developmental psychopathology, psychiatry and genetic epidemiology. I am particularly interested in developmental differences in the aetiology and presentation of mental health problems.
In 2023 I was awarded an MRC New Investigator Research Grant to investigate how and why ADHD leads to depression in young people (2023-2027). This research is conducted in collaboration with young people with lived experience via the Wolfson Centre’s Youth Advisory Group and the McPin Foundation.
I am also a co-investigator on the Horizon Europe project Youth-GEMs: Gene Environment interactions in Mental health trajectories of Youth (2022-2027).
Publication
2026
- Fury, B. et al., 2026. Investigating the associations between neurodevelopmental and psychiatric genetic liability and adverse social and functional outcomes across childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood. Molecular Psychiatry (10.1038/s41380-026-03903-x)
- Bekiropoulou, A. et al. 2026. Using a developmental approach to investigate behavioral, neurodevelopmental, and depressive irritability types. JAACAP Open 4 (3), pp.546-562. (10.1016/j.jaacop.2026.02.006)
- Padaigaitė-Gulbinienė, E. et al. 2026. Clinical and cognitive mediators underlying subsequent depression in individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A developmental approach. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (10.1016/j.jaac.2026.06.001)
- Weavers, B. et al. 2026. Heterogeneity in the longitudinal course of depressive symptomatology in adults with a history of recurrent major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders 403 121498. (10.1016/j.jad.2026.121498)
- Dennison, C. A. et al. 2026. Childhood ADHD and autism spectrum disorder difficulties: exploring the impact of copy number variants on young adult outcomes. BJPsych Open 12 (3) e108. (10.1192/bjo.2026.11018)
- Lewis, K. J. S. et al. 2026. A developmentally informed study of sleep and circadian polygenic scores in adolescence. JAMA Psychiatry 83 (5), pp.523-528. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.4647)
- Williams, G. et al. 2026. Investigating the symptom presentation of depression in children with ADHD. Journal of Attention Disorders 30 (4), pp.449-459. (10.1177/10870547251366783)
- Dennison, C. A. et al. 2026. The role of rare copy number variants in early‐onset depression. JCPP Advances e70128. (10.1002/jcv2.70128)
- Shakeshaft, A. et al. 2026. Mapping phenotypic and genetic relationships among irritability, depression and ADHD in adolescence using network analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 67 (3), pp.333-343. jcpp.70040. (10.1111/jcpp.70040)
- Tseng, W. et al., 2026. Cross-Cultural Consortium on Irritability (C3I): An international network for research on cultural similarities and differences in irritability. JAACAP Open 4 (1), pp.184-197. (10.1016/j.jaacop.2025.09.001)
- Bekiropoulou, A. et al. 2026. Measuring irritability across childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood: an investigation of measurement invariance by age, sex, and informant. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 35 , pp.121-132. (10.1007/s00787-025-02817-3)
2025
- Dennison, C. A. et al. 2025. Early manifestations of neurodevelopmental copy number variants in children: A population-based investigation. Biological Psychiatry 98 (12), pp.924-933. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.03.004)
- Franklin, A. et al., 2025. Cell-type-specific DNA methylation dynamics in the prenatal and postnatal human cortex. Cell Genomics 5 (12) 101010. (10.1016/j.xgen.2025.101010)
- Padaigaitė-Gulbinienė, E. et al. 2025. Study preregistration: clinical and cognitive mediators underlying subsequent depression in individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a developmental approach. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 64 (11), pp.1329-1331. (10.1016/j.jaac.2025.03.023)
- Shakeshaft, A. et al. 2025. Investigating irritability as a potentially causal risk pathway into depression using two genetically informed designs. Biological Society: Global Open Science 5 (6) 100566. (10.1016/j.bpsgos.2025.100566)
- Barrass, L. et al., 2025. Intergenerational educational mobility and mental health: Evidence from a Filipino birth cohort. PLOS Global Public Health 5 (8) e0004570. (10.1371/journal.pgph.0004570)
- Armitage, J. et al. 2025. A cross-country comparison of temporal change in adolescent mental health problems in the UK and Brazil. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 34 e17. (10.1017/S2045796025000137)
2024
- Riglin, L. et al. 2024. Emotional problems across development: examining measurement invariance across childhood, adolescence and early adulthood. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 33 , pp.4237-4245. (10.1007/s00787-024-02461-3)
- Barrass, L. et al., 2024. The association between socioeconomic position and depression or suicidal ideation in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health 24 (1) 3507. (10.1186/s12889-024-20986-9)
- Wootton, R. et al., 2024. Testing maternal effects of vitamin-D and omega-3 levels on offspring neurodevelopmental traits in the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study. Psychological Medicine 54 (12), pp.3323-3333. (10.1017/S0033291724001466)
- Reed, H. et al., 2024. The unequal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young adults' mental health. Predictors of vulnerability and resilience using longitudinal birth cohort data in the UK. Journal of Adolescence (10.1002/jad.12400)
- Tseliou, F. et al. 2024. Childhood correlates and young adult outcomes of trajectories of emotional problems from childhood to adolescence. Psychological Medicine 54 (10), pp.2504-2514. (10.1017/S0033291724000631)
- Shakeshaft, A. et al. 2024. Estimating the impact of transmitted and non-transmitted psychiatric and neurodevelopmental polygenic scores on youth emotional problems. Molecular Psychiatry 29 , pp.238-246. (10.1038/s41380-023-02319-1)
- Shakeshaft, A. et al. 2024. Long-term physical health conditions and youth anxiety and depression: Is there a causal link?. Psychological Medicine 55 e7. (10.1017/S0033291724003271)
- Agha, S. S. et al., 2024. Young adult ADHD symptoms in the general population and neurocognitive impairment. Journal of Attention Disorders 28 (1), pp.89-98. (10.1177/10870547231201870)
- Dennison, C. et al. 2024. Stratifying early-onset emotional disorders: using genetics to assess persistence in young people of European and South Asian ancestry. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 65 (1), pp.42-51. (10.1111/jcpp.13862)
2023
- Shakeshaft, A. et al. 2023. Co-development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic trait trajectories from childhood to early adulthood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 64 (11), pp.1596-1607. (10.1111/jcpp.13851)
- Thapar, A. et al. 2023. Childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder problems and mid-life cardiovascular risk: a prospective population cohort study. The British Journal of Psychiatry 223 (4), pp.472-477. (10.1192/bjp.2023.90)
- Weavers, B. et al. 2023. Characterising depression trajectories in young people at high familial risk of depression. Journal of Affective Disorders 337 , pp.66-74. (10.1016/j.jad.2023.05.063)
- Langley, K. et al. 2023. Can a nation-wide e-cohort of ADHD and ASD in childhood be established using Welsh routinely available datasets?. BMJ Open 13 e071851. (10.1136/bmjopen-2023-071851)
- Armitage, J. M. et al. 2023. Validation of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) emotional subscale in assessing depression and anxiety across development. PLoS ONE 18 (7) e0288882. (10.1371/journal.pone.0288882)
- Shakeshaft, A. et al. 2023. Mental-health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults with neurodevelopmental disorders. Journal of Psychiatric Research 159 , pp.230-239. (10.1016/j.jpsychires.2023.01.029)
- Thapar, A. et al. 2023. Practitioner Review: Attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder – the importance of depression. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 64 (1), pp.4-15. (10.1111/jcpp.13678)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2023. Young-adult social outcomes of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 84 (2) 14379. (10.4088/jcp.22m14379)
2022
- Riglin, L. and Stergiakouli, E. 2022. Mendelian randomisation studies of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. JCPP Advances 2 (4) e12117. (10.1002/jcv2.12117)
- Sellers, R. et al. 2022. Using genetic designs to identify likely causal environmental contributions to psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology 34 (5), pp.1653-1665. (10.1017/S0954579422000906)
- Pat, N. et al., 2022. Longitudinally stable, brain-based predictive models mediate the relationships between childhood cognition and socio-demographic, psychological and genetic factors.. Human Brain Mapping 43 (18), pp.5520-5542. (10.1002/hbm.26027)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2022. Early manifestations of genetic liability for ADHD, autism and schizophrenia at ages 18 and 24 months. JCPP Advances 2 (3) e12093. (10.1002/jcv2.12093)
- Tobarra‐Sanchez, E. et al., 2022. Preschool development, temperament and genetic liability as early markers of childhood ADHD: A cohort study. JCPP Advances 2 (3) e12099. (10.1002/jcv2.12099)
- Havdahl, A. et al., 2022. Associations between pregnancy-related predisposing factors for offspring neurodevelopmental conditions and parental genetic liability to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism, and Schizophrenia: The Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa). JAMA Psychiatry 79 (8), pp.799-810. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.1728)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2022. “Late-onset” ADHD symptoms in young adulthood: is this the same as child-onset ADHD?. Journal of Attention Disorders 26 (10), pp.1271-1282. (10.1177/10870547211066486)
- Wootton, R. E. et al., 2022. Decline in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder traits over the life course in the general population: trajectories across five population birth cohorts spanning ages 3 to 45 years. International Journal of Epidemiology 51 (3), pp.919-930. (10.1093/ije/dyac049)
- Pat, N. et al., 2022. Motivation and cognitive abilities as mediators between polygenic scores and psychopathology in children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 61 (6), pp.782-795. e3. (10.1016/j.jaac.2021.08.019)
- Niina, A. et al., 2022. Exploring ADHD symptoms and associated impairment across development. Journal of Attention Disorders 26 (6), pp.822-830. (10.1177/10870547211025612)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2022. Assessment of age-at-onset criterion for adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry 220 (2), pp.73-75. (10.1192/bjp.2021.122)
- Wimberley, T. et al., 2022. Early-life injuries and the development of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 83 (1) 21m14033. (10.4088/JCP.21m14033)
2021
- Dardani, C. et al., 2021. Is genetic liability to ADHD and ASD causally linked to educational attainment?. International Journal of Epidemiology 50 (6), pp.2011-2023. (10.1093/ije/dyab107)
- Eyre, O. et al. 2021. Validation of the short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire in young adulthood. Journal of Affective Disorders 294 , pp.883-888. (10.1016/j.jad.2021.07.090)
- Martin, J. et al. 2021. Sex differences in anxiety and depression in children with ADHD investigating genetic liability and comorbidity. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 186 (7), pp.412-422. (10.1002/ajmg.b.32842)
- Powell, V. et al. 2021. Investigating friendship difficulties in the pathway from ADHD to depressive symptoms. Can parent-child relationships compensate?. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology 49 , pp.1031-1041. (10.1007/s10802-021-00798-w)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2021. ADHD and depression: investigating a causal explanation. Psychological Medicine 51 (11), pp.1890-1897. (10.1017/S0033291720000665)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2021. Variable emergence of Autism Spectrum Disorder symptoms from childhood to early adulthood. American Journal of Psychiatry 178 (8), pp.752-760. (10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20071119)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2021. Investigating the validity of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire to assess ADHD in young adulthood. Psychiatry Research 301 113984. (10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113984)
- Leppert, B. et al., 2021. The effect of ADHD on physical health outcomes - a two-sample Mendelian randomization study. American Journal of Epidemiology 190 (6), pp.1047-1055. (10.1093/aje/kwaa273)
- Rice, F. et al. 2021. Pupil mental health, concerns and expectations about secondary school as predictors of adjustment across the transition to secondary school: A longitudinal multi-informant study. School Mental Health 13 , pp.279-298. (10.1007/s12310-021-09415-z)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2021. Investigating attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder traits in the general population: What happens in adult life?. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 62 (4), pp.449-457. (10.1111/jcpp.13297)
2020
- Powell, V. et al. 2020. What explains the link between childhood ADHD and adolescent depression? Investigating the role of peer relationships and academic attainment. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 29 , pp.1581-1591. (10.1007/s00787-019-01463-w)
- Thapar, A. and Riglin, L. 2020. The importance of a developmental perspective in Psychiatry: what do recent genetic epidemiological findings show?. Molecular Psychiatry 25 , pp.1631-1639. (10.1038/s41380-020-0648-1)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2020. Using genetics to examine a general liability to childhood psychopathology. Behavior Genetics 50 , pp.213-220. (10.1007/s10519-019-09985-4)
- Wimberle, T. et al., 2020. Genetic liability to ADHD and substance use disorders in individuals with ADHD. Addiction 115 (7), pp.1368-1377. (10.1111/add.14910)
- Leppart, B. et al., 2020. A cross-disorder PRS-pheWAS of 5 major psychiatric disorders in UK Biobank. PLoS Genetics 16 (5) e1008185. (10.1371/journal.pgen.1008185)
- Addicoat, A. et al. 2020. Adult mood problems in children with neurodevelopmental problems: evidence from a prospective birth cohort followed to age 50. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 55 , pp.351-358. (10.1007/s00127-019-01727-5)
2019
- Ng-Knight, T. et al., 2019. 'Best friends forever'? Friendship stability across school transition and associations with mental health and educational attainment. British Journal of Educational Psychology 89 (4), pp.585-599. (10.1111/bjep.12246)
- Eyre, O. et al. 2019. Irritability in ADHD: association with later depression symptoms. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 28 (10), pp.1375-1384. (10.1007/s00787-019-01303-x)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2019. Identifying novel types of irritability using a developmental genetic approach. American Journal of Psychiatry 176 (8), pp.635-642. (10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.18101134)
- Leppert, B. et al., 2019. Association of maternal neurodevelopmental risk alleles with early-life exposures. JAMA Psychiatry 76 (8), pp.834-842. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0774)
- Kendall, K. M. et al. 2019. Association of rare copy number variants with risk of depression. JAMA Psychiatry 76 (8), pp.818-825. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0566)
- Rice, F. et al. 2019. Characterizing developmental trajectories and the role of neuropsychiatric genetic risk variants in early-onset depression. JAMA Psychiatry 76 (3), pp.306-313. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2018.3338)
- Richards, A. et al. 2019. Associations between schizophrenia genetic risk, anxiety disorders and manic/hypomanic episode in a New Zealand longitudinal population cohort study. British Journal of Psychiatry 214 (2), pp.96-102. (10.1192/bjp.2018.227)
- Rice, F. et al. 2019. Adolescent and adult differences in major depression symptom profiles. Journal of Affective Disorders 243 , pp.175-181. (10.1016/j.jad.2018.09.015)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2019. Developmental contributions of schizophrenia risk alleles and childhood peer victimization to early-onset mental health trajectories. American Journal of Psychiatry 176 (1), pp.36-43. (10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18010075)
2018
- Cooper, M. et al. 2018. Investigating late-onset ADHD: a population cohort investigation. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 59 (10), pp.1105-1113. (10.1111/jcpp.12911)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2018. The impact of schizophrenia and mood disorder risk alleles on emotional problems: investigating change from childhood to middle age. Psychological Medicine 48 (13), pp.2153-2158. (10.1017/S0033291717003634)
- White, E. K. et al., 2018. Twin classroom dilemma: To study together or separately?. Developmental Psychology 54 (7), pp.1244-1254. (10.1037/dev0000519)
- Martin, J. et al. 2018. Sex-specific manifestation of genetic risk for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in the general population. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 59 (8), pp.908-916. (10.1111/jcpp.12874)
2017
- Riglin, L. et al. 2017. Investigating the genetic underpinnings of early-life irritability. Translational Psychiatry 7 e1241. (10.1038/tp.2017.212)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2017. Schizophrenia polygenic risk score and psychotic risk detection - authors' reply. The Lancet Psychiatry 4 (3), pp.188-189. (10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30052-4)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2017. Schizophrenia risk alleles and neurodevelopmental outcomes in childhood: a population-based cohort study. Lancet Psychiatry 4 (1), pp.57-62. (10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30406-0)
- Rice, F. et al. 2017. Adolescent depression and the treatment gap. The Lancet Psychiatry 4 (2), pp.86-87. (10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30004-4)
2016
- Riglin, L. et al. 2016. Association of genetic risk variants with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder trajectories in the general population. JAMA Psychiatry 73 (12), pp.1285-1292. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.2817)
- Neal, S. et al., 2016. Exploring the longitudinal association between interventions to support the transition to secondary school and child anxiety. Journal of Adolescence 50 , pp.31-43. (10.1016/j.adolescence.2016.04.003)
- Ng-Knight, T. et al., 2016. A longitudinal study of self-control at the transition to secondary school: Considering the role of pubertal status and parenting. Journal of Adolescence 50 , pp.44-55. (10.1016/j.adolescence.2016.04.006)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2016. Profiling depression in childhood and adolescence: the role of conduct problems. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 57 (4), pp.481-490. (10.1111/jcpp.12465)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2016. Higher cognitive ability buffers stress-related depressive symptoms in adolescent girls. Development and Psychopathology 28 (1), pp.97-109. (10.1017/S0954579415000310)
2015
- McManus, I. C. et al., 2015. Doctor, builder, soldier, lawyer, teacher, dancer, shopkeeper, vet: exploratory study of which eleven-year olds would like to become a doctor. BMC Psychology 3 (1) 38. (10.1186/s40359-015-0094-z)
- Rice, F. et al. 2015. Examining reward-seeking, negative self-beliefs and over-general autobiographical memory as mechanisms of change in classroom prevention programs for adolescent depression. Journal of Affective Disorders 186 , pp.320-327. (10.1016/j.jad.2015.07.019)
2014
- Rawal, A. et al., 2014. A longitudinal high-risk study of adolescent anxiety, depression and parent-severity on the developmental course of risk-adjustment. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 55 (11), pp.1270-1278. (10.1111/jcpp.12279)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2014. The relationship between emotional problems and subsequent school attainment: A meta-analysis. Journal of Adolescence 37 (4), pp.335-346. (10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.02.010)
2013
- Riglin, L. et al. 2013. A longitudinal study of psychological functioning and academic attainment at the transition to secondary school. Journal of Adolescence 36 (3), pp.507-517. (10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.03.002)
Articles
- Fury, B. et al., 2026. Investigating the associations between neurodevelopmental and psychiatric genetic liability and adverse social and functional outcomes across childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood. Molecular Psychiatry (10.1038/s41380-026-03903-x)
- Bekiropoulou, A. et al. 2026. Using a developmental approach to investigate behavioral, neurodevelopmental, and depressive irritability types. JAACAP Open 4 (3), pp.546-562. (10.1016/j.jaacop.2026.02.006)
- Padaigaitė-Gulbinienė, E. et al. 2026. Clinical and cognitive mediators underlying subsequent depression in individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A developmental approach. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (10.1016/j.jaac.2026.06.001)
- Weavers, B. et al. 2026. Heterogeneity in the longitudinal course of depressive symptomatology in adults with a history of recurrent major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders 403 121498. (10.1016/j.jad.2026.121498)
- Dennison, C. A. et al. 2026. Childhood ADHD and autism spectrum disorder difficulties: exploring the impact of copy number variants on young adult outcomes. BJPsych Open 12 (3) e108. (10.1192/bjo.2026.11018)
- Lewis, K. J. S. et al. 2026. A developmentally informed study of sleep and circadian polygenic scores in adolescence. JAMA Psychiatry 83 (5), pp.523-528. (10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.4647)
- Williams, G. et al. 2026. Investigating the symptom presentation of depression in children with ADHD. Journal of Attention Disorders 30 (4), pp.449-459. (10.1177/10870547251366783)
- Dennison, C. A. et al. 2026. The role of rare copy number variants in early‐onset depression. JCPP Advances e70128. (10.1002/jcv2.70128)
- Shakeshaft, A. et al. 2026. Mapping phenotypic and genetic relationships among irritability, depression and ADHD in adolescence using network analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 67 (3), pp.333-343. jcpp.70040. (10.1111/jcpp.70040)
- Tseng, W. et al., 2026. Cross-Cultural Consortium on Irritability (C3I): An international network for research on cultural similarities and differences in irritability. JAACAP Open 4 (1), pp.184-197. (10.1016/j.jaacop.2025.09.001)
- Bekiropoulou, A. et al. 2026. Measuring irritability across childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood: an investigation of measurement invariance by age, sex, and informant. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 35 , pp.121-132. (10.1007/s00787-025-02817-3)
- Dennison, C. A. et al. 2025. Early manifestations of neurodevelopmental copy number variants in children: A population-based investigation. Biological Psychiatry 98 (12), pp.924-933. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.03.004)
- Franklin, A. et al., 2025. Cell-type-specific DNA methylation dynamics in the prenatal and postnatal human cortex. Cell Genomics 5 (12) 101010. (10.1016/j.xgen.2025.101010)
- Padaigaitė-Gulbinienė, E. et al. 2025. Study preregistration: clinical and cognitive mediators underlying subsequent depression in individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a developmental approach. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 64 (11), pp.1329-1331. (10.1016/j.jaac.2025.03.023)
- Shakeshaft, A. et al. 2025. Investigating irritability as a potentially causal risk pathway into depression using two genetically informed designs. Biological Society: Global Open Science 5 (6) 100566. (10.1016/j.bpsgos.2025.100566)
- Barrass, L. et al., 2025. Intergenerational educational mobility and mental health: Evidence from a Filipino birth cohort. PLOS Global Public Health 5 (8) e0004570. (10.1371/journal.pgph.0004570)
- Armitage, J. et al. 2025. A cross-country comparison of temporal change in adolescent mental health problems in the UK and Brazil. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 34 e17. (10.1017/S2045796025000137)
- Riglin, L. et al. 2024. Emotional problems across development: examining measurement invariance across childhood, adolescence and early adulthood. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 33 , pp.4237-4245. (10.1007/s00787-024-02461-3)
- Barrass, L. et al., 2024. The association between socioeconomic position and depression or suicidal ideation in low- and middle-income countries in Southeast Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health 24 (1) 3507. (10.1186/s12889-024-20986-9)
- Wootton, R. et al., 2024. Testing maternal effects of vitamin-D and omega-3 levels on offspring neurodevelopmental traits in the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study. Psychological Medicine 54 (12), pp.3323-3333. (10.1017/S0033291724001466)
- Reed, H. et al., 2024. The unequal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young adults' mental health. Predictors of vulnerability and resilience using longitudinal birth cohort data in the UK. Journal of Adolescence (10.1002/jad.12400)
- Tseliou, F. et al. 2024. Childhood correlates and young adult outcomes of trajectories of emotional problems from childhood to adolescence. Psychological Medicine 54 (10), pp.2504-2514. (10.1017/S0033291724000631)
- Shakeshaft, A. et al. 2024. Estimating the impact of transmitted and non-transmitted psychiatric and neurodevelopmental polygenic scores on youth emotional problems. Molecular Psychiatry 29 , pp.238-246. (10.1038/s41380-023-02319-1)
- Shakeshaft, A. et al. 2024. Long-term physical health conditions and youth anxiety and depression: Is there a causal link?. Psychological Medicine 55 e7. (10.1017/S0033291724003271)
- Agha, S. S. et al., 2024. Young adult ADHD symptoms in the general population and neurocognitive impairment. Journal of Attention Disorders 28 (1), pp.89-98. (10.1177/10870547231201870)
- Dennison, C. et al. 2024. Stratifying early-onset emotional disorders: using genetics to assess persistence in young people of European and South Asian ancestry. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 65 (1), pp.42-51. (10.1111/jcpp.13862)
- Shakeshaft, A. et al. 2023. Co-development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic trait trajectories from childhood to early adulthood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 64 (11), pp.1596-1607. (10.1111/jcpp.13851)
- Thapar, A. et al. 2023. Childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder problems and mid-life cardiovascular risk: a prospective population cohort study. The British Journal of Psychiatry 223 (4), pp.472-477. (10.1192/bjp.2023.90)
- Weavers, B. et al. 2023. Characterising depression trajectories in young people at high familial risk of depression. Journal of Affective Disorders 337 , pp.66-74. (10.1016/j.jad.2023.05.063)
- Langley, K. et al. 2023. Can a nation-wide e-cohort of ADHD and ASD in childhood be established using Welsh routinely available datasets?. BMJ Open 13 e071851. (10.1136/bmjopen-2023-071851)
- Armitage, J. M. et al. 2023. Validation of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) emotional subscale in assessing depression and anxiety across development. PLoS ONE 18 (7) e0288882. (10.1371/journal.pone.0288882)
- Shakeshaft, A. et al. 2023. Mental-health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults with neurodevelopmental disorders. Journal of Psychiatric Research 159 , pp.230-239. (10.1016/j.jpsychires.2023.01.029)
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Teaching
I supervise undergraduate medical Student Selected Component projects and supervise research projects for the intercalated BSc in Psychology and Medicine. I teach epidemiological research methods and statistics on the MSc Applied Bioinformatics and Genomics and MSc Applied Bioinformatics and Genetic Epidemiology programmes. I am a personal tutor to undergraduate medical students. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Supervisions
Current students
Primary supervisor for Katerina Bekiropoulou (2024 - present). Thesis title: Is childhood irritability (emotional dysregulation) a core feature of ADHD? Co-supervisors: Olga Eyre, Anita Thapar, Jon Heron (University of Bristol).
Co-supervisor for Lucy Barrass (University of Bristol) (2022 - present). Thesis title: Life-course influences for mental ill health: an analysis of cohort data from the Philippines. Co-supervisors: Duleeka Knipe, Laura Howe, Theresa Redaniel, Nanette Lee (University of San Carlos, Philippines).
Previous students
Co-supervisor for Bryony Weavers (2022 - 2025). Thesis title: The children of depressed parents: Identifying promising targets for intervention. Co-supervisors: Frances Rice, Joanna Martin, Anita Thapar.
