Charlotte Willfors
Postdoctoral Studies
E-mail: charlotte.willfors@ki.se
Visiting address: Karolinska Institutet, BioClinicum J10:20, Visionsgatan 4, 17164 Solna
Postal address: K1 Molekylär medicin och kirurgi, K1 MMK Sällsynta diagnoser, 171 76 Stockholm
About me
- I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Rare Diseases Group at the Department
of Molecular Medicine and Surgery. My research interest focus on
the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders, and I am currently working
on projects exploring behavioral phenotypes and brain aberrations in rare
genetic syndromes with intellectual disability.
My background is in clinical psychology. I did my psychology studies (MSc)
at Lund University (2003-2008), followed by a semester working as
a research assistent at the Dept of Psychology at UC Berkeley in
California. I thereafter moved to Stockholm for my clinical training in
Child and Youth Psychiatry, and got my psychologist license in 2009.
In 2011, I joined Sven Bölte's group at the Center for Neurodevelopmental
Disorders at Karolinska Institutet (KIND [1]). My work at KIND focused on
biological and behavioral markers of neurodevelopmental disorders in twins,
and I finished my PhD on this topic in 2017. Currently, I am dividing my time
between clinical work with neuropsychiatric assessments in children and
adolescents and research on rare genetic syndromes.
[1] http://ki.se/kind/start
Selected publications
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2023;13(1):18397
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2023;13(1):15858
- Article: JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS. 2023;53(7):2786-2797
- Article: COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHIATRY. 2023;28(3):207-225
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2023;13(1):164
- Article: ORPHANET JOURNAL OF RARE DISEASES. 2021;16(1):472
- Article: TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY. 2020;10(1):312
- Article: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2017;8:15493
- Article: TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY. 2017;7(1):e1014
- Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. 2014;60(3):163-173
Articles
- Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2024;14(1):17583
- Article: JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 2023;29(3):306-315
- Article: JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY. 2020;61(4):470-479
- Article: TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY. 2019;9(1):238
- Article: JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS. 2019;49(7):2838-2848
- Article: SCIENCE ADVANCES. 2018;4(5):eaat1293
- Article: TWIN RESEARCH AND HUMAN GENETICS. 2018;21(1):1-11
- Article: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY. 2017;50(3):219-227
- Article: CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH. 2017;11:57
- Article: EUROPEAN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY. 2016;25(7):769-780
- Article: TWIN RESEARCH AND HUMAN GENETICS. 2014;17(3):164-176
All other publications
- Preprint: PSYARXIV. 2023
- Conference publication: JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY RESEARCH. 2021;65(9):811
- Preprint: PSYARXIV. 2020
- Preprint: BIORXIV. 2019
- Conference publication: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS. 2019;27:1423
- Preprint: BIORXIV. 2017
- Thesis / dissertation: 2017
- Book chapter: AUTISM IMAGING AND DEVICES. 2016;p. 15-36
Employments
- Postdoctoral Studies, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-2025
Degrees and Education
- Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, 2017