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  1. Article
    The clinical utility of the ADI-R and ADOS in diagnosing autism
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  2. Article
    Why did Sigmund Freud refuse to see Pierre Janet? Origins of psychoanalysis: Janet, Freud or both?
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Autism Spectrum Disorder - Recent Advances
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  4. Article
    The effects of the Omagh bomb on adolescent mental health: a school-based study
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Do psychiatry and neurology need a close partnership or a merger?
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Daily life impairments associated with self-reported childhood/adolescent attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and experiences of diagnosis and treatment: Results from the European Lifetime Impairment Survey
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Holistic processing of faces as measured by the Thatcher illusion is intact in autism spectrum disorders
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Daily life impairments associated with childhood/adolescent attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder as recalled by adults: results from the European Lifetime Impairment Survey
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  9. Article
    Overlap between autism and schizophrenia: history and current status
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  10. Article
    Methylphenidate Side Effect Profile Is Influenced by Genetic Variation in the Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder-Associated CES1 Gene
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  11. Article
    Inversion effects in the perception of the moving human form: A comparison of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and typically developing adolescents
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  12. Article
    Attitudes and practices in the management of ADHD among healthcare professionals who responded to a European survey
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  13. Article
    All future psychiatrists should be neuropsychiatrists
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Methylphenidate improves some but not all measures of ATTENTION, as measured by the TEA-Ch in medication-naïve children with ADHD
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  15. Article
    Recent Advances in Autism Spectrum Disorders - Volume I
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Recent Advances in Autism Spectrum Disorders - Volume II
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  17. Article
    592 – Overlap autism and schizophrenia
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  18. Article
    A school based study of psychological disturbance in children following the Omagh bomb
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  19. Article
    Schizophrenia & autism – Overlap & difference
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  20. Article
    Loss of autism in DSM-5
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  21. Article
    Problem-Based Learning in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  22. Article
    ‘History and First Descriptions’ of Autism: A response to Michael Fitzgerald
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  23. Article
    P-257 - The negative impact of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder on adult daily life: results of the european lifetime impairment survey
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  24. Article
    Home environment: association with hyperactivity/impulsivity in children with ADHD and their non-ADHD siblings
    Dr Aisling MulliganProfessor Michael F Fitzgerald
  25. Article
    Textbook of Autism Spectrum Disorders, Hollander E., Kolevzon A., Coyle J.. American Psychiatric Press: Washington DC, 2011.
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  26. Article
    Creativity Psychosis Autism and the Social Brain
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  27. Article
    FC05-01 - Overlap between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  28. Article
    P01-284 - Criminal Autistic Psychopathy
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  29. Article
    European consensus statement on diagnosis and treatment of adult ADHD: The European Network Adult ADHD
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    P01-193 - Developmental comorbidity assessment in childhood ADHD
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  31. Article
    P01-192 - Executive function in routine childhood ADHD assessment
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  32. Article
    No evidence for impaired perception of biological motion in adults with autistic spectrum disorders
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  33. Article
    How autism symptoms could develop at the neuron level: an information management perspective
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  34. Article
    Kenneth Aitken: Dietary Interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Why They Work When They do, Why They Don’t When They Don’t
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  35. Article
    The neural correlates of deficient error awareness in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  36. Article
    Fundamental principles by which the brain could process information: an information management perspective
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  37. Article
    Replication of a rare protective allele in the noradrenaline transporter gene and ADHD
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  38. Article
    Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  39. Article
    Autism Symptoms in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Familial Trait which Correlates with Conduct, Oppositional Defiant, Language and Motor Disorders
    Dr Aisling MulliganProfessor Michael F Fitzgerald
  40. Article
    Autism: Asperger's Syndrome—History and First Descriptions
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  41. Article
    Autism symptoms in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Familial trait which Correlates with Conduct, Oppositional Defiant, Language and Motor Disorders
    Dr Aisling MulliganProfessor Michael F Fitzgerald
  42. Article
    Creativity, psychosis, autism, and the social brain
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  43. Article
    A Case of ADHD and a Major Y Chromosome Abnormality
    Dr Aisling MulliganProfessor Michael F Fitzgerald
  44. Article
    Dissociation in response to methylphenidate on response variability in a group of medication naïve children with ADHD
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  45. Article
    Hypothesis: Capacity bottlenecks cause mental conditions and disorders
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  46. Article
    Self-Alert Training: Volitional modulation of autonomic arousal improves sustained attention
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  47. Article
    Professor Anthony Clare
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  48. Article
    Spatial Attentional Bias as a Marker of Genetic Risk, Symptom Severity, and Stimulant Response in ADHD
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  49. Article
    Comparative minicolumnar morphometry of three distinguished scientists
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Asperger (1906–1980) and Kanner (1894–1981), the two pioneers of autism
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  51. Article
    Did Hans Asperger (1906–1980) have Asperger Syndrome?
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Protein kinase C-beta 1 gene variants are not associated with autism in the Irish population
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  53. Article
    Book Review: Succeeding in College With Asperger Syndrome: A Student Guide
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  54. Article
    Suicide and Asperger's Syndrome
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  55. Article
    Dissociation in performance of children with ADHD and high-functioning autism on a task of sustained attention
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  56. Article
    Response to “Letter to the Editor: The Overlap Between Alexithymia and Asperger’s Syndrome”, Fitzgerald and Bellgrove, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36(4)
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  57. Article
    Parent and health professional perspectives in the management of adolescents with diabetes: Development of assessment instruments for international studies
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  58. Article
    THE OVERLAP BETWEEN ALEXITHYMIA AND ASPERGER’S SYNDROME
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    XIV World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, October 28th–November 1st, 2006 Congress Centre Fiera Internazionate della Sardegna, Cagliari, Italy
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  60. Article
    Preferential Transmission of Paternal Alleles at Risk Genes in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  61. Article
    Confirmation of Association Between Autism and the Mitochondrial Aspartate/Glutamate CarrierSLC25A12Gene on Chromosome 2q31
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  62. Article
    Early Memory and Autism
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  63. Article
    Association between Dopamine Transporter (DAT1) Genotype, Left-Sided Inattention, and an Enhanced Response to Methylphenidate in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  64. Article
    Tryptophan hydroxylase 2 (TPH2) gene variants associated with ADHD
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  65. Article
    Association of the paternally transmitted copy of common Valine allele of the Val66Met polymorphism of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene with susceptibility to ADHD
    Professor Michael F FitzgeraldAnita Thapar
  66. Article
    Association analysis of the monoamine oxidase A and B genes with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in an Irish sample: Preferential transmission of the MAO-A 941G allele to affected children
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER AND ASPERGER'S SYNDROME?
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  68. Article
    XIII World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics 2005
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    The case of Robert Walser (1878-1956)
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Multiple marker analysis at the promoter region of theDRD4 gene and ADHD: Evidence of linkage and association with the SNP ?616
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  71. Article
    Phenotype studies of theDRD4 gene polymorphisms in ADHD: Association with oppositional defiant disorder and positive family history
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  72. Article
    Humor in Autism and Asperger Syndrome
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Spectrum disorders survive by creativity
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  74. Article
    Did Michelangelo (1475–1564) have High-Functioning Autism?
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  75. Article
    Response to ?Features of Alexithymia or features of Asperger?s syndrome?? by M. Corcos
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  76. Article
    Re: Unpacking Personality Disorder
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Serotonin transporter gene and autism: a haplotype analysis in an Irish autistic population
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  78. Article
    Abstracts for the XIIth World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  79. Article
    LATE-TALKING TODDLERS
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Abstracts to the 12 th International Congress European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  81. Article
    CALLOUS/UNEMOTIONAL TRAITS AND ASPERGER'S SYNDROME?
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  82. Article
    No association between allelic variants of HOXA1/HOXB1 and autism
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  83. Article
    Association of the 480 bp DAT1 allele with methylphenidate response in a sample of Irish children with ADHD
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  84. Article
    Laurence Stephen Lowry and Asperger’s syndrome
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  85. Article
    Recent genetic advances in ADHD and diagnostic and therapeutic prospects
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  86. Article
    Did Alan Turing have Asperger's syndrome?
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Linkage disequilibrium mapping at DAT1, DRD5 and DBH narrows the search for ADHD susceptibility alleles at these loci
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  90. Article
    Letters to the Editors
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  91. Article
    Evidence that variation at the serotonin transporter gene influences susceptibility to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): analysis and pooled analysis
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  92. Article
    Synaptosomal-associated protein 25 (SNAP-25) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): evidence of linkage and association in the Irish population
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  93. Article
    Adult ADHD: a controversial diagnosis?
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  94. Article
    Louis Wain and Asperger's syndrome
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  95. Article
    Serotonergic system and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a potential susceptibility locus at the 5-HT1B receptor gene in 273 nuclear families from a multi-centre sample
    Professor Michael F FitzgeraldAnita Thapar
  96. Article
    No evidence of linkage or association between the norepinephrine transporter (NET) gene polymorphisms and ADHD in the Irish population
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  97. Article
    A Susceptibility Region for Autism on Chromosome 2: Linkage Disequilibrium Screen and Candidate Gene Studies
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  98. Article
    Broken Home or Drug using Peers: "Significant Relations"?
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    European adolescent substance use: the roles of family structure, function and gender
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Association of DRD4 in children with ADHD and comorbid conduct problems
    Professor Michael F FitzgeraldAnita Thapar
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    No association between CHRNA7 microsatellite markers and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
    Professor Michael F FitzgeraldAnita Thapar
  102. Article
    Symptom domains in autism and related conditions: Evidence for familiality
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  103. Article
    Good Metabolic Control Is Associated With Better Quality of Life in 2,101 Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  104. Article
    BORDERLINE PATHOLOGY
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Dopa decarboxylase gene polymorphisms and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): no evidence for association in the Irish population
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  106. Article
    Evidence for a Susceptibility Gene for Autism on Chromosome 2 and for Genetic Heterogeneity
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  107. Article
    Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α4 subunit gene polymorphism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  108. Article
    No evidence of linkage or association between ADHD and DXS7 locus in Irish population
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  109. Article
    International Variations in Youth Drug Use: The Effect of Individual Behaviours, Peer and Family Influences, and Geographical Location
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  110. Article
    A 16-year follow-up of a child inpatient population
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  111. Article
    Did Ludwig Wittgenstein have Asperger's syndrome?
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  112. Article
    Services for autism in Ireland
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  113. Article
    Evidence-based medicine, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
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    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  115. Article
    No association between catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene polymorphism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in an Irish sample
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  116. Article
    Abstracts of Presentations: Eighth World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics, Versailles, France
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  117. Article
    Differential diagnosis of adolescent and adult pervasive developmental disorders/autism spectrum disorders (PDD/ASD): a not uncommon diagnostic dilemma
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  118. Article
    Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in the Prison Population
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  119. Article
    IMPULSIVITY AND SUICIDE
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  120. Article
    Research in Brief
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  121. Article
    Personality traits in parents of people with autism
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  122. Article
    Psychopathology 8½ Years Post Parasuicide
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  123. Article
    In God we trust? Organised religion and personal beliefs as resources and coping strategies, and their implications for health in parents with a child on the autistic spectrum
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  124. Article
    O6 Is metabolic control related to quality of life? A study of 2103 children/adolescents with IDDM from 17 countries
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  125. Article
    Mapping susceptibility loci in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: preferential transmission of parental alleles at DAT1, DBH and DRD5 to affected children
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  126. Article
    PDD‐NOS
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  127. Article
    Did "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers", Paul Erdos, have Asperger syndrome?
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  128. Article
    Psychological Factors in Turner Syndrome: A Review of the Literature
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  129. Article
    Antecedents to Asperger Syndrome
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  130. Article
    Increased Mortality in Persons with Autism
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  131. Article
    MULTIDIMENSIONALLY IMPAIRED DISORDER
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  132. Article
    Evaluation of a Child and Family Centre
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  133. Article
    Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  134. Article
    The relationship between maternal depression (antenatal and pre-school stage) and childhood behavioural problems
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  135. Article
    Social skills correlates of depressed mood in normal young adolescents
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  136. Article
    Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  137. Article
    Factors related to the adjustment of siblings following sudden infant death
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  138. Article
    The relationship between child, adolescent and adult psychiatry
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  139. Article
    Leisure activities of adolescent schoolchildren
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  140. Article
    National scientific medical meeting 1995 abstracts
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  141. Article
    Self-esteem, depression and hostility in Irish adolescents
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  142. Article
    Measuring Progress in Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy: A Pilot Study
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  143. Article
    Of sound mind
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  144. Article
    Royal academy of medicine in Ireland section of biomedical sciences
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  145. Article
    Childhood Hospitalization for Psychosocial Reasons: The Case of Gastroenteritis
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  146. Article
    Motivation towards learning and behaviour deviance in eight to eleven year old children attending an urban primary school
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  147. Article
    Screening for abnormal eating attitudes in an unselected population of 16 year old Dublin schoolgirls
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  148. Article
    Medication and the management of infantile gastroenteritis
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  149. Article
    The burden on a family having a child with special needs
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  150. Article
    The measurement of adolescent adaptive processes in the clinical interview
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  151. Article
    The impact of hospital experiences during training on GP referral rates
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  152. Article
    Attitudes of Urban Irish Doctors to the Hospitalisation of Young Children
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  153. Article
    Psychological Health Status of Mothers and the Admission of Children to Hospital for Gastroenteritis
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  154. Article
    A Study of emotion and behaviour in children attending a normal school in an urban area
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  155. Article
    A community based study of unmarried & married mothers
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  156. Article
    Behavioural deviance in an Irish urban and rural town sample
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  157. Article
    Behaviourally deviant pre-school children and depressed mothers
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald
  158. Article
    Life events and psychiatric referral in children: comparison with a general population
    Professor Michael F Fitzgerald