Hans-Christoph Steinhausen

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zürich, Switzerland

Professor and Head, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich;
MD 1970, Dipl. Psych. 1973, Ph.D. in Psychology 1975, Postdoctoral dissertation in Psychosomatic Pediatrics 1976 (all University of Hamburg, Germany); Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1979. Committee Member, International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology; President, Swiss Society for Psychiatric Epidemiology; Member, International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology.

Research Interests: Developmental Psychopathology, Child and adolescent psychiatric epidemiology, Child neuropsychology, Genetics of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

: Psychiatry > Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (15 November 2005 - 17 January 2008)

Links

http://www.caps.unizh.ch

All recent recommendations

• 6.0
  Family conflict interacts with genetic liability in predicting childhood and adolescent depression.
  Recommended by Hans-Christoph Steinhausen
  
• 6.5
  Prediction of heterogeneity in intelligence and adult prognosis by genetic polymorphisms in the dopamine system among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: evidence from 2 birth cohorts.
  Recommended by Andrew Rowland, Hans-Christoph Steinhausen, Luis Rohde
  
• 6.5
  A common haplotype of the dopamine transporter gene associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and interacting with maternal use of alcohol during pregnancy.
  Recommended by Luis Rohde, Hans-Christoph Steinhausen, Richard Todd