Events – The Swedish Child Neuropsychiatry Science Foundation

The Swedish Child Neuropsychiatry Science Foundation organises seminars, lectures, conferences and educational days in collaboration with Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. On this page you can read about previous and forthcoming events. Many of the events have also been filmed.

Forthcoming events

Birgit Olsson Lecture 2022, Gothenburg

ESSENCE 2023 conference, Country TBC

Past events

Birgit Olsson Lectures

Year	Title	Lecturer
Birgit Olsson Lecture 2011	Building Coherence from Mechanism to Treatment in Eating Disorders	Professor Janet Treasure, United Kingdom
Birgit Olsson Lecture 2012	Use and Misuse of ADHD treatments in Childhood and Adult Life	Professor Eric Taylor, United Kingdom
Birgit Olsson Lecture 2013	From Synaptic Genes to Brain Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder	Professor Thomas Bourgeron, France
Birgit Olsson Lecture 2014	Toward a Science of Eating Disorders – Replacing Myths with Realities	Professor Cynthia Bulik, USA
Birgit Olsson Lecture 2015	Current Concepts in the Neurobiology of ADHD Across the Lifecycle	Professor Joseph Biederman, USA
Birgit Olsson Lecture 2016	The Changing Face of Autism	Professor Fred Volkmar, USA
Birgit Olsson Lecture 2017	Improving understanding of the avoidance and restriction of food intake: Picky eating, ARFID and Anorexia Nervosa	Associate Professor Rachel Bryant-Waugh, United Kingdom
Birgit Olsson Lecture 2018	The Second Attention Disorder – Sluggish Cognitive Tempo vs. ADHD	Dr Russell Barkley, USA
Birgit Olsson Lecture 2019	Maltreatment-Associated Psychiatric Problems – How Trauma and ESSENCE are Linked	Professor Helen Minnis, United Kingdom

Mary Coleman Lectures

Year	Title	Lecturer
Mary Coleman Lecture 2015	The Autisms and What They Teach Us About the Social Brain	Dr Mary Coleman, USA
Mary Coleman Lecture 2017	Autism from A to Z	Professor Christopher Gillberg, Sweden
Mary Coleman Lecture 2019	From Autism to ESSENCE	Professor Christopher Gillberg, Sweden

ESSENCE lectures

Year	Title	Lecturer
2013	PANDAS	Dr Susan Swedo
2015	Fetal alcohol syndrome	Professor Kathleen Sulik
2015	Developmental Coordination Disorder	Dr Helene Polatajko

International conferences

ESSENCE 2018 Gothenburg

Mind the Gap IV 2014 Gothenburg

Educational days

ESSENCE Day 1 & 2 2014