Johan Isaksson
Adjunct senior lecturer at Department of Medical Sciences; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- E-mail:
- johan.isaksson@neuro.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, ingång 10
- Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, ingång 10, plan
751 85 UPPSALA
Short presentation
Associate professor and licenced psychologist. The main research area is neurodevelopment conditions, including ADHD and autism.
Biography
My research focuses on neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD and autism. Current projects aims to evaluate the efficacy of dialectic behavior therapy and psychoeducation on ADHD symptoms and functional impairment, and the possible predictive role of emotion regulation on persistence of ADHD, comorbid stress and emotional problems.

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Nordic Social Work Research, p. 17-28, 2025
- DOI for Me & my family: a programme for children and parents in families with parental substance use problems – an outcome study
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Part of BMC Psychology, 2025
- DOI for I've really struggled but it does not seem to work: adolescents' experiences of living with ADHD - a thematic analysis
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Part of Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, p. 382-391, 2024
- DOI for The WHO Adult ADHD self-report Scale used in a clinical sample of patients with overlapping symptoms - psychometric properties of and scoring methods for the Swedish translation
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Part of Human Brain Mapping, 2024
- DOI for Large-scale analysis of structural brain asymmetries during neurodevelopment: Associations with age and sex in 4265 children and adolescents
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Does Camouflaging Cause Reduced Quality of Life? A Co-Twin Control Study.
Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Nordic Social Work Research, p. 17-28, 2025
- DOI for Me & my family: a programme for children and parents in families with parental substance use problems – an outcome study
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Part of BMC Psychology, 2025
- DOI for I've really struggled but it does not seem to work: adolescents' experiences of living with ADHD - a thematic analysis
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Part of Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, p. 382-391, 2024
- DOI for The WHO Adult ADHD self-report Scale used in a clinical sample of patients with overlapping symptoms - psychometric properties of and scoring methods for the Swedish translation
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Part of Human Brain Mapping, 2024
- DOI for Large-scale analysis of structural brain asymmetries during neurodevelopment: Associations with age and sex in 4265 children and adolescents
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Does Camouflaging Cause Reduced Quality of Life? A Co-Twin Control Study.
Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2024
Part of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2024
- DOI for The severity of perceived stress associated with community violence exposure and its role in future posttraumatic stress: findings from a longitudinal study of U.S. adolescents
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Loneliness and posttraumatic stress in U.S. adolescents: A longitudinal study
Part of Journal of Affective Disorders, p. 113-119, 2024
Part of Youth & society, p. 579-596, 2024
- DOI for Direct and Indirect Effects of Adolescent Peer Victimization and Mental Health on Academic Achievement in Early Adulthood: A 6-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study
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Memory training with the method of loci for children and adolescents with ADHD-A feasibility study
Part of Applied neuropsychology. Child, p. 137-145, 2024
- DOI for Memory training with the method of loci for children and adolescents with ADHD-A feasibility study
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Enuresis in young offenders: a study on prevalence and mental health comorbidity
Part of Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2024
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Anger and Aggression in Russian Adolescents
Part of JAACAP Open, 2024
Part of Journal of Eating Disorders, 2024
- DOI for Longitudinal associations between community violence exposure, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and eating disorder symptoms
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Part of Journal of clinical medicine, 2023
- DOI for Associations between Elemental Metabolic Dynamics and Default Mode Network Functional Connectivity Are Altered in Autism.
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Part of Biology open, 2023
- DOI for Deficiency of the Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein U locus leads to delayed hindbrain neurogenesis.
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Depressive symptoms and anger and aggression in Russian adolescents
Part of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2023
- DOI for Depressive symptoms and anger and aggression in Russian adolescents
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Part of iScience, 2023
- DOI for Deciduous tooth biomarkers reveal atypical fetal inflammatory regulation in autism spectrum disorder.
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Part of Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, p. 747-753, 2023
- DOI for Changes in patterns of alcohol consumption in young psychiatric outpatients: two comparable samples assessed with 10 years apart
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Part of Journal of Interpersonal Violence, p. 8619-8644, 2023
- DOI for Longitudinal Associations Between Community Violence Exposure and Mental Health Problems in Inner-City Youth: Ethnicity and Gender Perspectives
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Evaluation of Birth Weight and Neurodevelopmental Conditions Among Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins.
Part of JAMA Network Open, 2023
- DOI for Evaluation of Birth Weight and Neurodevelopmental Conditions Among Monozygotic and Dizygotic Twins.
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Part of Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2023
The Role of Comorbid Symptoms in Perceived Stress and Sleep Problems in Adolescent ADHD
Part of Child Psychiatry and Human Development, p. 1141-1151, 2023
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Characterizing the metabolomic signature of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in twins
Part of Neuropharmacology, 2023
- DOI for Characterizing the metabolomic signature of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in twins
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Part of Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, p. 55-64, 2023
- DOI for Brief internet-delivered skills training based on DBT for adults with borderline personality disorder: a feasibility study
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Part of JAMA Network Open, 2022
- DOI for Association of Media Coverage on Transgender Health With Referrals to Child and Adolescent Gender Identity Clinics in Sweden
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Emotion dysregulation in ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions: a co-twin control study
Part of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2022
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Part of Advances in simulation, 2022
- DOI for Medical students' experiences of working with simulated patients in challenging communication training
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Associated predictors of functional impairment among adolescents with ADHD: a cross-sectional study
Part of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2022
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Part of BMC Psychiatry, 2022
- DOI for Moderators of long-term treatment outcome when comparing two group interventions for adolescents with ADHD: who benefits more from DBT-based skills training?
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Part of Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
- DOI for Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms, perceived stress, and suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Gender dysphoria in twins: a register-based population study
Part of Scientific Reports, 2022
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Part of Molecular autism, 2022
- DOI for Nonshared environmental factors in the aetiology of autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions: a monozygotic co-twin control study.
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Psychotic-like experiences from adolescence to adulthood: A longitudinal study
Part of Schizophrenia Research, p. 1-7, 2022
- DOI for Psychotic-like experiences from adolescence to adulthood: A longitudinal study
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Part of Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2022
- DOI for Elemental Dynamics in Hair Accurately Predict Future Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis: An International Multi-Center Study
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Part of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, p. 1-13, 2022
- DOI for Evaluation of a structured skills training group for adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a randomised controlled trial.
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Eating Problems in Autistic Females and Males: A Co-twin Control Study
Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 3153-3168, 2022
- DOI for Eating Problems in Autistic Females and Males: A Co-twin Control Study
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2021
- DOI for Validity of the Gender Dysphoria diagnosis and incidence trends in Sweden: a nationwide register study
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Community Violence Exposure and School Functioning in Youth: Cross-Country and Gender Perspectives
Part of Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
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Part of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2021
- DOI for Risky sexual behaviour among Russian adolescents: association with internalizing and externalizing symptoms
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Part of Journal of Eating Disorders, 2021
- DOI for Prevalence and early risk factors for bulimia nervosa symptoms in inner-city youth: gender and ethnicity perspectives
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Neuroticism is positively associated with leptin/adiponectin ratio, leptin and IL-6 in young adults
Part of Scientific Reports, 2021
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A co-twin-control study of altered sensory processing in autism
Part of Autism, p. 1422-1432, 2021
- DOI for A co-twin-control study of altered sensory processing in autism
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Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
- DOI for What's the Link Between Theory of Mind and Other Cognitive Abilities: A Co-twin Control Design of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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SKILLS: A psychoeducational group programme for children with ADHD
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, p. 460-467, 2021
Part of Current Opinion in Psychiatry, p. 600-607, 2021
Part of Autism, p. 2341-2355, 2021
- DOI for The impact of atypical sensory processing on adaptive functioning within and beyond autism: The role of familial factors
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Part of Substance Use & Misuse, p. 358-366, 2020
- DOI for Risk Factors Associated with Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence among American Inner-City Youth: A Longitudinal Study
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Variable neurodevelopmental and morphological phenotypes of carriers with 12q12 duplications
Part of Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2020
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Global and local visual processing in autism - a co-twin-control study
Part of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, p. 470-479, 2020
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, p. 671-678, 2020
- DOI for You are not alone: adolescents' experiences of participation in a structured skills training group for ADHD.
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Part of Autism, p. 1020-1035, 2020
Part of Journal of Traumatic Stress, p. 552-563, 2020
How do adolescents with ADHD perceive and experience stress?: An interview study
Part of Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, p. 123-130, 2020
- DOI for How do adolescents with ADHD perceive and experience stress?: An interview study
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Part of Journal of Affective Disorders, p. 825-830, 2020
- DOI for Physical activity in early adolescence predicts depressive symptoms 3 years later: A community-based study
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Part of Journal of Attention Disorders, p. 1565-1569, 2020
- DOI for Unseen and Stressed? Gender Differences in Parent and Teacher Ratings of ADHD Symptoms and Associations With Perceived Stress in Children With ADHD.
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Part of Journal of Attention Disorders, p. 1070-1077, 2020
Risk and Protective Factors for Problematic Drinking in Early Adolescence: A Systematic Approach
Part of Child Psychiatry and Human Development, p. 231-238, 2020
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Part of Schizophrenia Research, p. 190-196, 2020
Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2019
- DOI for Dynamical properties of elemental metabolism distinguish attention deficit hyperactivity disorder from autism spectrum disorder
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Part of BMC Psychiatry, 2019
- DOI for Evaluation of a structured skills training group for adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) - study protocol of a randomised controlled trial.
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Familial confounding on the ability to read minds: A co-twin control study
Part of Autism, p. 1948-1956, 2019
Social Cognition in Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Co-twin Control Study
Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 2838-2848, 2019
- DOI for Social Cognition in Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Co-twin Control Study
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Own-gender bias in school staff's recognition of children with ADHD
Part of Acta Paediatrica, p. 1165-1166, 2019
The danger of being inattentive: ADHD symptoms and risky sexual behaviour in Russian adolescents
Part of European psychiatry, p. 42-48, 2018
EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): the autism twin cohort
Part of Molecular Autism, 2018
- DOI for EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): the autism twin cohort
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Part of BMC Psychiatry, 2017
- DOI for Early adversity and psychiatric symptoms: a prospective study on Ethiopian mothers and their children
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Part of Molecular Autism, 2017
- DOI for The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): design and methodologies to identify and validate stratification biomarkers for autism spectrum disorders.
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The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): clinical characterisation.
Part of Molecular Autism, 2017
- DOI for The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): clinical characterisation.
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Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 2621-2627, 2017
Part of European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, p. 771-773, 2016
Part of Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, p. 276-292, 2016
Part of Psychiatry Research, p. 376-380, 2016
Associations between the FKBP5 haplotype, exposure to violence and anxiety in females
Part of Psychoneuroendocrinology, p. 196-204, 2016
The Pressure-Activation-Stress scale in relation to ADHD and cortisol
Part of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, p. 153-161, 2015
Part of Acta Paediatrica, p. 910-915, 2015
Fasting blood glucose and HbA1c in children with ADHD
Part of Psychiatry Research, p. 515-516, 2015
Part of Journal of Psychiatric Research, p. 97-102, 2015
Part of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, p. 425-432, 2013
Effects of stimulants and atomoxetine on cortisol levels in children with ADHD
Part of Psychiatry Research, p. 740-741, 2013
Cortisol levels in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Part of Journal of Psychiatric Research, p. 1398-1405, 2012
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
2021
DBT-Based Skills Training for Adolescents With ADHD: A Randomized Controlled Trial
2021
SKILLS – A PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL GROUP PROGRAM FOR ADOLESCENTS WITH ADHD
Part of Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2018