Essi Viding

Essi Viding
Viding in 2012
Born
Essi Maria Viding

Finland
Alma materUniversity College London
King's College London (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity College London
ThesisInvestigating neurocognitive systems underlying impulsivity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder (2004)
Doctoral advisorFrancesca Happé[2]
Websiteiris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=EVIDI50

Essi Maria Viding is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at University College London in the Faculty of Brain Sciences, where she co-directs the Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit, and an associate of King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.[1] Viding's research focuses on development of disruptive behaviour disorders, as well as children and young people's mental health problems more broadly. She uses cognitive experimental measures, brain imaging and genetically informative study designs in her work.[2][3][4][5]

Education

Viding was educated at King's College London where she was awarded a PhD in 2004[6] for research supervised by Francesca Happé.[2] She did her postdoctoral research under the supervision of Robert Plomin.

Awards and honours

Viding was the 2011 winner of the British Psychological Society's Spearman Medal,[7] and received the 2017 Rosalind Franklin Award.[8] She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2020 and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2021.

Publications

  • Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction, 2019

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Essi Viding publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c "Essi Viding Iris Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  3. ^ "One in 100 children are psychopaths, experts believe". The Telegraph. 31 August 2012. Archived from the original on 1 September 2012.
  4. ^ Viding, Essi; Blair, R. James R.; Moffitt, Terrie E.; Plomin, Robert (2005). "Evidence for substantial genetic risk for psychopathy in 7‐year‐olds". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 46 (6): 592–597. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.499.286. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00393.x. PMID 15877765.
  5. ^ Jones, Alice; Laurens, Kristin; Herba, Catherine; Barker, Gareth; Viding, Essi (2009). "Amygdala hypoactivity to fearful faces in boys with conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits". American Journal of Psychiatry. 166 (1): 95–102. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.07071050. PMID 18923070.
  6. ^ Viding, Essi Maria (2004). Investigating neurocognitive systems underlying impulsivity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). King's College London (University of London). OCLC 729799279. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.405666.
  7. ^ "One on one...with Essi Viding - Vol. 24, Part 9 ( September 2011)". Thepsychologist.org.uk. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  8. ^ "Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 25 July 2017.


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