Essi Viding Explained

Essi Viding
Birth Name:Essi Maria Viding
Birth Place:Finland
Work Institution:University College London
Alma Mater:University College London
King's College London (PhD)
Thesis Title:Investigating neurocognitive systems underlying impulsivity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405666
Thesis Year:2004
Doctoral Advisor:Francesca Happé

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. 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.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Education

Viding was educated at King's College London where she was awarded a PhD in 2004[5] for research supervised by Francesca Happé.[1] 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,[6] and received the 2017 Rosalind Franklin Award.[7] She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2020 and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2021.

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Essi Viding Iris Profile . iris.ucl.ac.uk . 2014-01-12.
  2. News: One in 100 children are psychopaths, experts believe . 31 August 2012 . The Telegraph . https://web.archive.org/web/20120901124108/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/9510937/One-in-100-children-are-psychopaths-experts-believe.html. dead. 1 September 2012.
  3. 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 . 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00393.x . 15877765. 10.1.1.499.286 .
  4. 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 . 10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.07071050 . 18923070 .
  5. PhD. King's College London (University of London). Investigating neurocognitive systems underlying impulsivity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder. Essi Maria. Viding. 2004. . london.ac.uk. 729799279.
  6. Web site: One on one...with Essi Viding - Vol. 24, Part 9 (September 2011) . Thepsychologist.org.uk . 2014-01-12.
  7. Web site: Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture. royalsociety.org. 25 July 2017. en-gb.

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