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Christopher Gillberg, born 1950, professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Gothenburg University in Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the medical college St George's, University of London, in Tooting (in south London). Gillberg is well known for his research of autism in children, DAMP, Asperger syndrome and ADHD. He is Editor in Chief of European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and author and editor of several scientific and educational books. He is the recipient of several scientific awards including the Philips Nordic Prize 2004 for neurological research, and has more than 300 scientific papers listed in Medline.
In the 1980s, Gillberg launched the concept DAMP (Deficits in Attention, Motor control and Perception) which had major impact on the field in Sweden as well as parts of the Western world. In Sweden, the concept DAMP replaced the older diagnosis MBD (Minimal Brain Dysfunction). According to the Swedish classification, DAMP is a subgroup of ADHD. The purpose of his research was a better understanding of the children with DAMP, and Gillberg and his coworkers assumed that the reason for the symptoms at least partly had biological reasons.
Gillberg's research shows that roughly ten percent of all children have either DAMP, or other kinds of larger or smaller neurological problems. His results regarding DAMP has been harshly criticised by the sociologist Eva Kärfve at the University of Lund, and the pediatrist Leif Elinder. They accused Gillberg of forging his data. Gothenburg University made an internal investigation, dismissing the accusations. Kärfve and Elinder then demanded access to the research material behind the so called Gothenburg study about DAMP, but the university denied them this. They then took it to the court, that decided that the two critics would be allowed to take part of the material, although the research material on patients falls under secrecy.
In May 2004 Gillberg and three of his coworkers destroyed the 12 - 27 years old research material, claiming that the secrecy of the participating patients would be broken if they were handed out to Kärfve and Elinder. In June 2005, Gillberg and the rector of Gothenburg University were convicted by court for not handing the material over to Kärfve and Elinder.
Bibliography (incomplete)
- A Guide to Asperger Syndrome Cambridge University Press, 2002 (author)
- Clinical Child Neuropsychiatry Cambridge University Press, 1995 (author)
External links
- LUA Brief information about Gillberg's research
- Philips Prize - Information about the Philips Prize