About the group
We study biological, psychological, and societal mechanisms underpinning the association between severe antisocial behaviour and serious mental disorders.
Our approach is broad and interdisciplinary, combining clinical studies, studies of registry data and neuroimaging using novel methods, and studies of historical and legal documents.
The research is conducted in collaboration with national and international experts in neuroscience, clinical psychosis research, criminology, criminal law, and philosophy.
Aims
- Develop stratification tools for targeted treatment of forensic psychiatry patients.
- Validate and remodel clinical assumptions in the criminal insanity discourse.
- Identify shared genetic, neuroanatomical, and environmental underpinnings of antisocial behaviour and severe mental disorders.
- Identify neurodevelopmental trajectories and targets for prevention of antisocial behaviour in severe mental disorders.
Projects
- Violence in severe mental disorders (sTOP)
- Understanding and preventing violent crime in high-risk individuals – a mixed-methods approach (PreVio)
- Remodelling criminal insanity and psychosis through the philosophical, legal and medical DIMENSIONS of the medical model, collaboration with Linda Gröning, professor of criminal law, University of Bergen, Norway
- Forensic psychiatry, neuroimaging and psychosis in South Africa, collaboration with Dan Stein, Professor of psychiatry, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Mapping antecedents and trajectories of anti-social behaviour and psychosis in the developing brain
