Christopher Gillberg

Who is Christopher Gillberg?

Lars Christopher Gillberg, 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, University College London. He has also been a visiting professor at the universities of Bergen, New York, Odense, St George's, San Francisco, and Strathclyde.

Christopher Gillberg’s extensive research, 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.