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| Niklas LångströmSummaryAffiliation: Karolinska Institutet Country: Sweden Publications
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Risk factors for violent offending in autism spectrum disorder: a national study of hospitalized individualsNiklas Långström
Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
J Interpers Violence 24:1358-70. 2009....
The DSM diagnostic criteria for exhibitionism, voyeurism, and frotteurismNiklas Långström
Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, POB 23000, 104 35, Stockholm, Sweden
Arch Sex Behav 39:317-24. 2010..Some of the criticism of current criteria and the balancing of false negatives and false positive diagnoses are examined. The report concludes with suggestions for possible diagnostic criteria changes for the DSM-V...
Genetic and environmental effects on same-sex sexual behavior: a population study of twins in SwedenNiklas Långström
Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, P O Box 23000, 104 35, Stockholm, Sweden
Arch Sex Behav 39:75-80. 2010....
Short-term effects of psychiatric symptoms and interpersonal stressors on criminal violence--a case-crossover studyUlrika Haggård-Grann
Dept of Clinical Neuroscience Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, P O Box 23000, 104 35, Stockholm, Sweden
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 41:532-40. 2006..The aim of the study was to analyse the triggering or acute risk effect of psychiatric symptoms and interpersonal stressors on criminal violence...
Severe mental illness and risk of sexual offending in men: a case-control study based on Swedish national registersSeena Fazel
Center for Violence Prevention, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
J Clin Psychiatry 68:588-96. 2007..To examine the comorbidity of severe mental illness with sexual offending in men...
Psychiatric disorders and recidivism in sexual offendersNiklas Långström
Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institute, P O Box 23000, S 104 35 Stockholm, Sweden
Sex Abuse 16:139-50. 2004..However, our findings support psychiatric consultation for improved assessment and management of mental health needs and recidivism risk in SOs...
Advanced paternal and grandpaternal age and schizophrenia: a three-generation perspectiveEmma M Frans
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Schizophr Res 133:120-4. 2011..The aim of the current study was to explore the links between both paternal and grandpaternal age with respect to the risk of schizophrenia in a large, national register-based cohort...
Exhibitionistic and voyeuristic behavior in a Swedish national population surveyNiklas Långström
Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Arch Sex Behav 35:427-35. 2006..The implications of these findings for research on atypical sexual interests, atypical sexual behavior, and paraphilias are discussed...
The role of alcohol and drugs in triggering criminal violence: a case-crossover study*Ulrika Haggård-Grann
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Addiction 101:100-8. 2006..To investigate the triggering effects of alcohol, illegal substances and major classes of prescribed psychotropic drugs on criminal violence...
Creativity and mental disorder: family study of 300,000 people with severe mental disorderSimon Kyaga
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, POB 281, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Br J Psychiatry 199:373-9. 2011..There is a long-standing belief that creativity is coupled with psychopathology...
Method of attempted suicide as predictor of subsequent successful suicide: national long term cohort studyBo Runeson
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Division of Psychiatry, St Göran, SE 112 81 Stockholm, Sweden
BMJ 341:c3222. 2010..To study the association between method of attempted suicide and risk of subsequent successful suicide...
Risk of suicide after suicide attempt according to coexisting psychiatric disorder: Swedish cohort study with long term follow-upDag Tidemalm
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Division of Psychiatry, St Göran, SE 112 81 Stockholm, Sweden
BMJ 337:a2205. 2008..To investigate the impact of coexistent psychiatric morbidity on risk of suicide after a suicide attempt...
Advancing paternal age and bipolar disorderEmma M Frans
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, PO Box 281, SE 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:1034-40. 2008..Advancing paternal age has been reported as a risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders...
Transvestic fetishism in the general population: prevalence and correlatesNiklas Långström
Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
J Sex Marital Ther 31:87-95. 2005..A positive attitude to this sexual practice and paraphilia indicators--sexual arousal from using pain, exposing genitals to a stranger, and spying on others having sex--were particularly strong correlates to the dependent variable...
Prenatal smoking exposure and offspring stress coping in late adolescence: no causal linkRalf Kuja-Halkola
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Int J Epidemiol 39:1531-40. 2010..We examined if mothers' smoking during pregnancy (SDP) is associated with long-term impairment in offspring stress coping and the causal mechanism behind a possible link...
Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in SwedenCecilia Dhejne
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Division of Psychiatry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
PLoS ONE 6:e16885. 2011..There is a dearth of long term, follow-up studies after sex reassignment...
Familial factors confound the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and young adult offspring overweightAnastasia Nyman Iliadou
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Int J Epidemiol 39:1193-202. 2010..We aim to investigate whether familial factors confound the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and overweight in early adulthood in young Swedish males born 1983-88...
Effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy on offspring blood pressure in late adolescenceLovisa Högberg
aDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics bClinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden cDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
J Hypertens 30:693-9. 2012..We aimed to investigate whether this association remained in late adolescence and, if so, whether it could be attributed to an intrauterine effect or to familial confounding...
High rates of sexual behavior in the general population: correlates and predictorsNiklas Långström
Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Arch Sex Behav 35:37-52. 2006..We conclude that elevated rates of impersonal sex are associated with a range of negative health indicators in the general population...
Genetic and environmental influences on problematic masturbatory behavior in children: a study of same-sex twinsNiklas Långström
Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Karolinska Institutet, P O Box 4044, S 141 04 Huddinge, Sweden
Arch Sex Behav 31:343-50. 2002..When interpreting the findings, the very brief measure of sexual problem behavior and low statistical power, precluding the analysis of possible coinheritance with other symptoms or disorders, should be borne in mind...
Self-reported personality traits and disorders (DSM-IV) and risk of criminal recidivism: a prospective studyUlrika L Hiscoke
Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
J Personal Disord 17:293-305. 2003....
Methodological development: structured outcome assessment and community risk monitoring (SORM)Martin Grann
Centre for Violence Prevention CVP, Karolinska Institute, P O Box 23000, SE 104 35 Stockholm, Sweden
Int J Law Psychiatry 28:442-56. 2005..In this research project, patients leaving any of the 9 participating forensic hospitals in Sweden is assessed at release on a variety of static background factors, and the SORM is then administered every 30 days for 2 years...
Accuracy of actuarial procedures for assessment of sexual offender recidivism risk may vary across ethnicityNiklas Långström
Centre for Violence Prevention, Karolinska Institutet, P O Box 23000, S 104 35 Stockholm, Sweden
Sex Abuse 16:107-20. 2004..More speculatively, different risk factors or causal chains might be involved in the development or persistence of offending among minority or immigrant sexual abusers...
Heritability, assortative mating and gender differences in violent crime: results from a total population sample using twin, adoption, and sibling modelsThomas Frisell
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, PO Box 281, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden
Behav Genet 42:3-18. 2012..4), appeared to result from both phenotypic assortment and social homogamy, but had only minor effect on variance components. Finally, we found significant gender differences in the etiology of violent crime...
Maternal bereavement and childhood asthma-analyses in two large samples of Swedish childrenFang Fang
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
PLoS ONE 6:e27202. 2011..Prenatal factors such as prenatal psychological stress might influence the development of childhood asthma...
