Radboud University
The Netherlands
History
The ECNP Network ADHD across the lifespan has its roots in the International persistent ADHD Collaboration (IMpACT), an international collaboration of researchers at eight sites across Europe and the Americas interested in ADHD biology and the factors that cause persistence of the disorder into adulthood. The members of IMpACT have been working together since 2007. Additional groups interested in ADHD across the lifespan have been added to this core group over time to form the current ECNP Network.
Our group is the result of a long-lasting, international research collaboration. The friendship and collaborative activities that came forth from this network are both a professional and personal highlight of our career. We meet at least once every year in person and once every month online. Together, we have already developed and completed various successful international research projects funded by the European Commission. Supported by such funds, we managed to put ADHD across the lifespan on the international research agenda, generated public awareness, trained a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers, and educated multiple clinicians about ADHD etiology, diagnosis, and treatment. We continue to explore the nature of ADHD, dedicated to contribute to modernizing the concept of ADHD based on these new insights.
Goals
1
Providing a platform facilitating collaboration between researchers to perform multi-level, interdisciplinary research into ADHD etiology, persistence, and remission, and using a lifespan perspective.
2
Optimising the collaboration between researchers, people living with ADHD, and other stakeholders, such as mental health professionals working with children and adolescents, adults, and the elderly.
Core members
| Member name | Institution | City | Country |
| Tobias Banaschewski | University of Heidelberg | Manheim | Germany |
| Jan Buitelaar | Radboud University | Nijmegen | The Netherlands |
| Bru Cormand | University of Barcelona | Barcelona | Spain |
| Samuele Cortese | University of Southampton | Southampton | United Kingdom |
| Ditte Demontis | Aarhus University | Aarhus | Denmark |
| Noèlia Fernàndez-Castillo | Universitat de Barcelona | Barcelona | Spain |
| Oliver Grimm | Johann Wolfgang Goethe University | Frankfurt am Main | Germany |
| Edna Grünblatt | University of Zurich | Zurich | Switzerland |
| Jan Haavik | University of Bergen | Bergen | Norway |
| Catharina Hartman | University of Groningen | Groningen | The Netherlands |
| Martine Hoogman | Radboud University | Nijmegen | The Netherlands |
| Sarah Kittel-Schneider | Goethe University Frankfurt | Frankfurt am Main | Germany |
| Jonna Kuntsi | Kings College London | London | United Kingdom |
| Henrik Larsson | Karolinska Institute | Stockholm | Sweden |
| Astri J. Lundervold | University of Bergen | Bergen | Norway |
| Alexandra Philipsen | University Hospital Bonn | Bonn | Germany |
| Andreas Reif | Johann Wolfgang Goethe University | Frankfurt am Main | Germany |
| Janos Rethelyi | Semmelweis University | Budapest | Hungary |
| Marta Ribases | Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) | Barcelona | Spain |
| Georg Ziegler | Universitätsklinikum Würzburg | Würzburg | Germany |
Shell members
| Member name | Institution | City | Country |
| Philip Asherson | Institute of Psychiatry | London | United Kingdom |
| Claiton Bau | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul | Porto Alegre | Brazil |
| Alysa Doyle | Mass General Brigham/ Harvard Medical School | Boston | USA |
| Stephen V. Faraone | SUNY Upstate Medical University | Syracuse | USA |
| Christine Freitag | JW Goethe University | Frankfurt am Main | Germany |
| Klaus-Peter Lesch | University Hospital of Würzburg | Würzburg | Germany |
| Will Norton | University of Leicester | Leicester | United Kingdom |
| Vanesa Richarte | Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona | Spain |
| Marcel Romanos | University Hospital of Wurzburg | Würzburg | Germany |
| Alejandro Arias Vasquez | Radboud University Behavioural Science Institute | Nijmegen | The Netherlands |
Publications
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2023Ribasés et al.
Genetic architecture of ADHD and overlap with other psychiatric disorders and cognition-related phenotypes
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews -
2021Kittel-Schneider et al.
Non-mental diseases associated with ADHD across the lifespan: Fidgety Philipp and Pippi Longstocking at risk of multimorbidity?
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews -
2018Franke et al.
Live fast, die young? A review on the developmental trajectories of ADHD across the lifespan
European Neuropsychopharmacology -
2011Franke et al.
The genetics of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults, a review
Molecular Psychiatry -
2019Faraone, S V. and Larsson, H.
Genetics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Molecular Psychiatry