Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Developmental psychopathology
Behavioural Genetics
Structural equation modelling
Intergenerational transmission
Gene-environment correlation
Gene-environment interaction
Selection bias
Principal Investigator on CoTEDS https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/coteds
Biographical details
Tom is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. He was previously A Sir Henry Dale Research Fellow (Wellcome Trust and Royal Society funded) and ESRC postdoctoral research fellow.
Tom leads a team of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers at the SGDP Centre who develop and use genetically informative research designs to understand the intergenerational transmission of mental health problems. He works extensively on large family-based databases and is Principal Investigator on the Children of Twins Early Development Study (CoTEDS), the second generation of the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS).
Tom is happy to consider acting as supervisor/mentor to PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers with research interests that overlap with his own, and would be willing to assist during the application process. Please contact him via email if you wish to discuss possibilities
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Are mothers’ prenatal emotional symptoms influenced by the foetal genome? Exploring the possibility of offspring to parent effects during pregnancy.
Ahmadzadeh, Y., Eilertsen, E. M., Rayner, C., Wechsler, D., Cheesman, R., Bjørndal, L., Ystrom, E. & McAdams, T. A., 15 Oct 2024, (Submitted) In: SSRN Electronic Journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Exploring associations between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and emotional problems from childhood to adulthood: Shared aetiology or possible causal relationship?
You, Y., Oginni, O., Lim, K., Rijsdijk, F., Zavos, H. & McAdams, T. A., 27 Sept 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Psychological medicine.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Initiation and Stability of Self-Harm in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: Investigating Social and Aetiological Factors in Twins
Marzecki, F., Ahmadzadeh, Y., Oginni, O., Pingault, J.-B., McAdams, T. A. & Zavos, H., 9 Oct 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Intergenerational Consequences of Racism in the UK: A Qualitative Investigation into Parents’ Exposure to Racism and Offspring Mental Health and Wellbeing.
Simela, C., Fayese, T., Okundi, M., Abdalla, H., McAdams, T. A., Harris, A., Augustine, A., Le, H., Abdinasir, K., Ayorech, Z. & Ahmadzadeh, Y., 25 Mar 2024, In: Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 29, p. 181-191Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Socioeconomic status and risk for child psychopathology: exploring gene-environment interaction in the presence of gene-environment correlation using extended families in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Birth Cohort Study
Badini, I., Ahmadzadeh, Y., Wechsler, D., Lyngstad, T. H., Rayner, C., Eilertsen, E. M., Zavos, H., Ystrom, E. & McAdams, T. A., Feb 2024, In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 65, 2, p. 176-187 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile7 Citations (Scopus)74 Downloads (Pure)
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Mental Health Problems: Identifying Causal Pathways and How to Interrupt Them
McAdams, T. (Primary Investigator) & Ahmadzadeh, Y. (Co-Investigator)
4/01/2021 → 3/01/2026
Project: Research
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TEDS 26: A longitudinal genetic approach to understanding the development and intergenerational transmission of common mental health conditions
Eley, T. (Primary Investigator), Breen, G. (Co-Investigator), Downs, J. (Co-Investigator), Hotopf, M. (Co-Investigator), McAdams, T. (Co-Investigator) & Plomin, R. (Co-Investigator)
1/01/2021 → 30/09/2026
Project: Research
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Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship for Eleonora Iob.
Danese, A. (Primary Investigator) & McAdams, T. (Co-Investigator)
4/10/2021 → 30/09/2023
Project: Research
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Emerging Minds Network Cross Sector Placement Award
McAdams, T. (Primary Investigator) & Ahmadzadeh, Y. (Co-Investigator)
ESRC Economic and Social Research Council
4/01/2021 → 31/05/2021
Project: Research
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Communities for better mental health in children: an integration of community, familial, and genetic risk
McAdams, T. (Primary Investigator), Eley, T. (Co-Investigator) & Rijsdijk, F. (Co-Investigator)
1/12/2018 → 30/11/2021
Project: Research