Jonna Kuntsi

Summary

Affiliation: King's College London
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi What would Karl Popper say? Are current psychological theories of ADHD falsifiable?
    Katherine A Johnson
    School of Psychology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
    Behav Brain Funct 5:15. 2009
  2. ncbi Why cognitive performance in ADHD may not reveal true potential: findings from a large population-based sample
    Jonna Kuntsi
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park Box P080, London SE5 8AF, UK
    J Int Neuropsychol Soc 15:570-9. 2009
  3. ncbi Cognitive-electrophysiological indices of attentional and inhibitory processing in adults with ADHD: familial effects
    Gráinne McLoughlin
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
    Behav Brain Funct 7:26. 2011
  4. ncbi Separation of cognitive impairments in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder into 2 familial factors
    Jonna Kuntsi
    MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:1159-67. 2010
  5. ncbi Is overactivity a core feature in ADHD? Familial and receiver operating characteristic curve analysis of mechanically assessed activity level
    Alexis C Wood
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:1023-30. 2009
  6. ncbi Reaction time, inhibition, working memory and 'delay aversion' performance: genetic influences and their interpretation
    Jonna Kuntsi
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
    Psychol Med 36:1613-24. 2006
  7. ncbi Hyperactive-impulsive symptom scores and oppositional behaviours reflect alternate manifestations of a single liability
    Alexis C Wood
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, UK
    Behav Genet 39:447-60. 2009
  8. ncbi High heritability for a composite index of children's activity level measures
    Alexis C Wood
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, P O Box 80, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
    Behav Genet 38:266-76. 2008
  9. ncbi Striatal sensitivity during reward processing in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
    Yannis Paloyelis
    King s College London, Medical Research Council Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, UK
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 51:722-732.e9. 2012
  10. ncbi Electrophysiological evidence for abnormal preparatory states and inhibitory processing in adult ADHD
    Gráinne McLoughlin
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
    Behav Brain Funct 6:66. 2010

Detail Information

Publications26

  1. ncbi What would Karl Popper say? Are current psychological theories of ADHD falsifiable?
    Katherine A Johnson
    School of Psychology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
    Behav Brain Funct 5:15. 2009
    ..We conclude that theoreticians should focus, to a greater extent than currently practiced, on developing refutable theories of ADHD...
  2. ncbi Why cognitive performance in ADHD may not reveal true potential: findings from a large population-based sample
    Jonna Kuntsi
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park Box P080, London SE5 8AF, UK
    J Int Neuropsychol Soc 15:570-9. 2009
    ..The degree to which cognitive impairments in ADHD can be modulated by energetic or motivational factors has important implications for clinical and educational interventions...
  3. ncbi Cognitive-electrophysiological indices of attentional and inhibitory processing in adults with ADHD: familial effects
    Gráinne McLoughlin
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
    Behav Brain Funct 7:26. 2011
    ..We now compare these data further to additional data from first-degree relatives (fathers) of children with ADHD to identify whether this pattern of abnormal processing shares familial influences with ADHD in adults...
  4. ncbi Separation of cognitive impairments in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder into 2 familial factors
    Jonna Kuntsi
    MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
    Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:1159-67. 2010
    ..A better understanding of the etiological pathways is important for the development of targeted interventions and for identification of suitable intermediate phenotypes for molecular genetic investigations...
  5. ncbi Is overactivity a core feature in ADHD? Familial and receiver operating characteristic curve analysis of mechanically assessed activity level
    Alexis C Wood
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:1023-30. 2009
    ..Furthermore, we aimed to investigate the degree of shared familial influences on these measures and the ADHD diagnosis...
  6. ncbi Reaction time, inhibition, working memory and 'delay aversion' performance: genetic influences and their interpretation
    Jonna Kuntsi
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
    Psychol Med 36:1613-24. 2006
    ..We further aimed to illustrate how test-retest reliability of the measures affects the estimates...
  7. ncbi Hyperactive-impulsive symptom scores and oppositional behaviours reflect alternate manifestations of a single liability
    Alexis C Wood
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, UK
    Behav Genet 39:447-60. 2009
    ..In middle childhood, symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity and oppositional behaviour may represent the same underlying liability, whereas the inattentive domain is more distinct...
  8. ncbi High heritability for a composite index of children's activity level measures
    Alexis C Wood
    Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, P O Box 80, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
    Behav Genet 38:266-76. 2008
    ..The high heritabilities found are encouraging in this respect...
  9. ncbi Striatal sensitivity during reward processing in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
    Yannis Paloyelis
    King s College London, Medical Research Council Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, UK
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 51:722-732.e9. 2012
    ..We investigated striatal responsivity to rewards in ADHD combined type (ADHD-CT) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and whether it is modulated by variation in the dopamine transporter gene (DAT1)...
  10. ncbi Electrophysiological evidence for abnormal preparatory states and inhibitory processing in adult ADHD
    Gráinne McLoughlin
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
    Behav Brain Funct 6:66. 2010
    ..It is not yet known if this pattern of abnormal processing is evident in adult ADHD...
  11. ncbi Genetic support for the dual nature of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: substantial genetic overlap between the inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive components
    Gráinne McLoughlin
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 35:999-1008. 2007
    ..This study investigated, in a community sample, the aetiology of ADHD-like traits and the aetiological overlap between the two dimensions that define the ADHD disorder...
  12. ncbi Aetiology for the covariation between combined type ADHD and reading difficulties in a family study: the role of IQ
    Celeste H M Cheung
    King s College London, MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 53:864-73. 2012
    ..This study investigated the familial relationships between ADHD, reading difficulties and IQ in a sample of individuals diagnosed with ADHD combined type, their siblings and control sibling pairs...
  13. ncbi Shared genetic influences on ADHD symptoms and very low-frequency EEG activity: a twin study
    Charlotte Tye
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 53:706-15. 2012
    ..Very low-frequency (VLF; <0.5 Hz) electroencephalographic (EEG) activity represents a promising indicator of risk for ADHD, but it currently remains unclear as to whether it is heritable or genetically linked to the disorder...
  14. ncbi The genetic association between ADHD symptoms and reading difficulties: the role of inattentiveness and IQ
    Yannis Paloyelis
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
    J Abnorm Child Psychol 38:1083-95. 2010
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  15. ncbi Genetic influences on mechanically-assessed activity level in children
    Alexis C Wood
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:695-702. 2007
    ..Yet it is poorly understood, due partly to limitations on parent and teacher ratings, which are typically used as measurements of these symptoms...
  16. ncbi DAT1 and COMT effects on delay discounting and trait impulsivity in male adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and healthy controls
    Yannis Paloyelis
    MRC SDGP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
    Neuropsychopharmacology 35:2414-26. 2010
    ..The lack of magnitude effects in the hypothetical task suggests that discounting in this task may be influenced by different processes in ADHD-CT than in healthy controls...
  17. ncbi Evidence for overlapping genetic influences on autistic and ADHD behaviours in a community twin sample
    Angelica Ronald
    Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:535-42. 2008
    ..This study takes an individual differences approach to determine the degree of phenotypic and aetiological overlap between autistic traits and ADHD behaviours in the general population...
  18. ncbi Performance monitoring is altered in adult ADHD: a familial event-related potential investigation
    Gráinne McLoughlin
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE58AF, UK
    Neuropsychologia 47:3134-42. 2009
    ..It is not yet known whether these processes show the same abnormalities and familial effects in adults...
  19. ncbi Reaction time performance in ADHD: improvement under fast-incentive condition and familial effects
    Penny Andreou
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
    Psychol Med 37:1703-15. 2007
    ..Using a group familial correlation approach, we tested the hypothesis that there are shared familial effects on RT performance and ADHD...
  20. ncbi Electrophysiological markers of genetic risk for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
    Charlotte Tye
    MRC Social Genetic Developmental Psychiatry Centre SGDP, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
    Expert Rev Mol Med 13:e9. 2011
    ..Such research will aid in the precise characterisation of the clinical deficits seen in ADHD and guide the development of novel intervention and prevention strategies for those at risk...
  21. ncbi Are ADHD symptoms associated with delay aversion or choice impulsivity? A general population study
    Yannis Paloyelis
    Medical Research Council Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, UK
    J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:837-46. 2009
    ..In this study, we examined the association of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms with choice impulsivity and tested the specific hypothesis derived from delay aversion theory...
  22. ncbi Testing assumptions for endophenotype studies in ADHD: reliability and validity of tasks in a general population sample
    Jonna Kuntsi
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
    BMC Psychiatry 5:40. 2005
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  23. ncbi Behavioral, neurocognitive and treatment overlap between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and mood instability
    Caroline Skirrow
    MRC Social Genetic Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, UK
    Expert Rev Neurother 9:489-503. 2009
    ..This research suggests that mood instability and symptoms of ADHD may be interlinked and that mood instability may be better understood as a core feature of the ADHD syndrome...
  24. ncbi Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
    Jonna Kuntsi
    MRC Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
    Neuromolecular Med 8:461-84. 2006
    ..Such research is only at its beginning, but is illustrated by recent findings of an association between DAT1 and increased response variability in ADHD...
  25. ncbi Functional MRI in ADHD: a systematic literature review
    Yannis Paloyelis
    MRC Social Genetic Developmental Psychiatry Centre P080, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, UK
    Expert Rev Neurother 7:1337-56. 2007
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  26. ncbi Genetic influences on the stability of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms from early to middle childhood
    Jonna Kuntsi
    MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, London, United Kingdom
    Biol Psychiatry 57:647-54. 2005
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