KATERINA PAPANIKOLAOU M.D., Ph.D.
Katerina Papanikolaou was born in Athens, Greece, in 1965 and since 2021 is a Professor in Child Psychiatry and Head of the Department of Child Psychiatry of the Athens University Medical School.
She trained in medicine at the Athens University Medical School (1982-1988) and after doing her residency in neurology (1/1989-7/1989), psychiatry (8/1989-2/1991) and child psychiatry (3/1991-5/93) she received the Certificate of Child Psychiatric Specialty in 1992 after board examinations. His doctoral thesis “The role of meta-analysis in assessing the efficacy of antidepressants in child and adolescent depression” was presented to the Athens University Medical School in 2003.
She has been appointed as an Honorary Senior Registrar in Child and Family Psychiatric Services Leicester, UK (6/1994-4/1995), as a Clinical Research Worker at Institute of Psychiatry, MRC Child Psychiatry and as an Honorary Associate Specialist at the Maudsley Hospital, London, UK (4/1995-8/1996). She worked as an NHS Child Psychiatrist at the Department of Child Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School between 1998 and 2003.
She has been in charge of the autism clinic of the Department of Child Psychiatry, Athens University Medical School since 1998.
Dr.Papanikolaou’ research activities have focused mainly on autism, meta-analytic methdology, cognitive therapy, childhood obesity. She has participated in several national, European, and international research programs. She is the author or co-author of more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and has more than 8000 citations.
Selected publications:
Koumoula, A., Marchionatti, L. E., Karagiorga, V. E., Schafer, J. L., Simioni, A., & Papanikolaou, K., et al. (2024). Understanding priorities and needs for child and adolescent mental health in Greece from multiple informants: An open resource dataset. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-021-01779-6
Zarokanellou, V., Prentza, A., Tafiadis, D., Kolaitis, G., & Papanikolaou, K. (2024). Lexical knowledge in school-aged children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: Associations with other linguistic skills. Languages, 9(1), 31.
Gerosideris, N., Daskalou, S. D., Gerasimos, K., Giannakopoulos, G., & Papanikolaou, K. (2023). Adaptive behavior of school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 20(3), 731-742.
Daskalou, S. D., Kolaitis, G., Gerosideris, N., Zaravinos-Tsakos, F., & Papanikolaou, K. (2023). The relationship between motor function and visual perception in school-aged children with neurodevelopmental disorders. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 20(2), 849-857.
Kouklari, E. C., Tagkouli, E., Tsermentseli, S., Ntre, V., Pehlivanidis, A., & Papanikolaou, K. (2023). Cross-sectional developmental trajectories of executive function and relations to theory of mind in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Pediatric Neuropsychology, 9(3), 157-174.
Koumoula, A., Marchionatti, L. E., Caye, A., Karagiorga, V. E., Balikou, P., & Papanikolaou, K., et al. (2023). The science of child and adolescent mental health in Greece: A nationwide systematic review. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1-17.
Zarokanellou, V., Papanikolaou, K., Tafiadis, D., & Kolaitis, G. (2023). Qualitative analysis of verbal fluency in school-age children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: Associations with age and IQ. Applied Neuropsychology: Child. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2022.2090255
Mantas, V., Pehlivanidis, A., Kotoula, V., Papanikolaou, K., Vassiliou, G., Papaiakovou, A., & Papageorgiou, C. (2022). Factors of influence in prisoner’s dilemma task: A review of medical literature. PeerJ, 10, e12829. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12829
Mantas, V., Pehlivanidis, A., Papanikolaou, K., Kotoula, V., & Papageorgiou, C. (2022). Strategic decision making and prediction differences in autism. PeerJ, 10, e13328. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13328
Mantas, V., Pehlivanidis, A., Papanikolaou, K., & Papageorgiou, C. (2022). mPD: Introduction of a single-player prisoner's dilemma application for medical experiments. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 217, 106695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.106695
Ntre, V., Papanikolaou, K., Amanaki, E., Triantafyllou, K., Tzavara, C., & Kolaitis, G. (2022). Coping strategies in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder and their relation to maternal stress and depression. Psychiatriki. https://doi.org/10.22365/jpsych.2022.068
Papanikolaou, K., Ntre, V., Gertsou, I. M., Tagkouli, E., Tzavara, C., Pehlivanidis, A., & Kolaitis, G. (2022). Parenting children with autism spectrum disorder during crises: Differential responses between the financial and the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 11(5), 1264. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11051264
Pehlivanidis, A., Tasios, K., Papanikolaou, K., Douzenis, A., & Michopoulos, I. (2021). Validation of the Empathy Quotient (EQ)—Greek version. Psychiatriki. https://doi.org/10.22365/jpsych.2021.008
Pehlivanidis, A., & Papanikolaou, K. (2022). Theophrastus’s “Anaisthetos” (“The Obtuse Man”): The oldest phenomenological description of neurodevelopmental disorders in an adult. Psychiatriki. https://doi.org/10.22365/jpsych.2022.079
Pehlivanidis, A., & Papanikolaou, K. (2022). Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): From hyperkinetic to neurodevelopmental disorders. Arch Hellen Med, 39, 151-162.
Zarokanellou, V., Kotsopoulos, A., Tafiadis, D., Prentza, A., Kolaitis, G., & Papanikolaou, K. (2022). Specificity of phonological representations in school-age high-functioning ASD children. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2022.2065030
Pehlivanidis, A., Papanikolaou, K., Korobili, K., Kalantzi, E., Mantas, V., Pappa, D., & Papageorgiou, C. (2020). Trait-based dimensions discriminating adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and, co-occurring ADHD/ASD. Brain Sciences, 11(1), 18. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11010018
Pehlivanidis, A., Papanikolaou, K., Mantas, V., Kalantzi, E., Korobili, K., Xenaki, L. A., & Papageorgiou, C. (2020). Lifetime co-occurring psychiatric disorders in newly diagnosed adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or/and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). BMC Psychiatry, 20(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-02828-1
Papanikolaou, K., Paliokosta, E., Houliaras, G., Vgenopoulou, S., Giouroukou, E., Pehlivanidis, A., & Tsiantis, I. (2019). Using the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised and the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Generic for the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in a Greek sample with a wide range of intellectual abilities. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39(3), 414-420. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-008-0639-6
Pehlivanidis, A., Spyropoulou, A., Papanikolaou, K., Frysira, E., Tsoytsoy, E., & Papageorgiou, C. (2019). Autism spectrum disorder and psychiatric comorbidity in a patient with Myhre syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(7), 3031-3035. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04015-y
Georgiou, A., Soulis, S. G., Rapti, D., & Papanikolaou, K. (2018). Math anxiety of students with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. American International Journal of Social Science, 7(4), 112-122. https://doi.org/10.30845/aijss.v7n4p15
Ntre, V., Papanikolaou, K., Triantafyllou, K., Giannakopoulos, G., Kokkosi, M., & Kolaitis, G. (2018). Psychosocial and financial needs, burdens and support, and major concerns among Greek families with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). International Journal of Caring Sciences, 11(2), 985-995.
Parr, J. R., De Jonge, M. V., Wallace, S., Pickles, A., Rutter, M. L., Papanikolaou, K., & Bailey, A. J. (2015). New interview and observation measures of the broader autism phenotype: Description of strategy and reliability findings for the interview measures. Autism Research, 8(5), 522-533. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1466
Pickles, A., Parr, J. R., Rutter, M. L., De Jonge, M. V., Papanikolaou, K., & Bailey, A. J. (2013). New interview and observation measures of the broader autism phenotype: Impressions of interviewee measure. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43(9), 2082-2089. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-013-1810-2
Casey, J. P., Magalhaes, T., Conroy, J., Papanikolaou, K., & Ennis, S. (2012). A novel approach of homozygous haplotype sharing identifies candidate genes in autism spectrum disorder. Human Genetics, 131(4), 565-579. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-011-1094-6
Gika, D. M., Artemiadis, A. K., Alexopoulos, E. C., Darviri, C., Papanikolaou, K., & Chrousos, G. P. (2012). Use of a relaxation technique by mothers of children with autism: A case-series study. Psychological Reports, 111(3), 797-804. https://doi.org/10.2466/20.15.21.PR0.111.6.797-804
Anney, R., Klei, L., Pinto, D., Papanikolaou, K., & Gill, M. (2010). A genome-wide scan for common alleles affecting risk for autism. Human Molecular Genetics, 19(20), 4072-4082. https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2011.75
Pinto, D., Pagnamenta, A. T., Klei, L., Papanikolaou, K., & Yaspan, B. L. (2010). Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders. Nature, 466(7304), 368-372. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09146
Kolaitis, G., Papanikolaou, K., Paliokosta, E., Tsiantis, J., Gyftodimou, Y., Sarri, C., Petersen, M. B., & Kokota, H. (2009). De novo inverted interstitial duplication 8q22.1-q21.1 in a boy with moderate learning disabilities, mild autistic and dysmorphic features. Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, 3(2), 48-52. https://doi.org/10.1108/17530180200900014
Papanikolaou, K., Paliokosta, E., Houliaras, G., Vgenopoulou, S., Giouroukou, E., Pehlivanidis, A., Tomaras, V., & Tsiantis, I. (2009). Using the Autism Diagnostic Interview–Revised and the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Generic for the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders in a Greek sample with a wide range of intellectual abilities. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39(4), 414-420. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-008-0647-x
Yannakoulia, M., Papanikolaou, K., Hatzopoulou, I., Efstathiou, E., & Papoutsakis, C. (2008). Association between family divorce and children's BMI and meal patterns: The GENDAI Study. Obesity (Silver Spring), 16(6), 1382-1387. https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2008.75
The Autism Genome Project Consortium. (2007). Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements. Nature Genetics, 39(3), 319-328. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1985
Szatmari, P., Paterson, A. D., Zwaigenbaum, L., Papanikolaou, K., & Wright, H. H. (2007). Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements. Nature Genetics, 39, 319. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1985
Papanikolaou, K., Paliokosta, E., Gyftodimou, J., Kolaitis, G., Vgenopoulou, S., Sarri, C., & Tsiantis, J. (2006). A case of partial trisomy of chromosome 8p associated with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36(5), 705-709. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0104-3
Papanikolaou, K., Richardson, C., Pehlivanidis, A., & Papadopoulou-Daifoti, Z. (2006). Efficacy of antidepressants in child and adolescent depression: A meta-analytic study. Journal of Neural Transmission, 113(3), 399-415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-005-0340-0
Pehlivanidis, A., Papanikolaou, K., Politis, A., Liossi, A., Daskalopoulou, E., Gournellis, R., Soldatos, M., Papakosta, V. M., Zervas, I., & Papakostas, Y. G. (2006). The screening role of an introductory course in cognitive therapy training. Academic Psychiatry, 30(3), 196-198. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.30.3.196
Berument, S. K., Starr, E., Pickles, A., Tomlins, M., Papanikolaou, K., Lord, C., & Rutter, M. (2005). Pre-linguistic Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule adapted for older individuals with severe to profound mental retardation: A pilot study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 35(6), 821-829. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-005-0027-4
Starr, E. M., Berument, S. K., Tomlins, M., Papanikolaou, K., & Rutter, M. (2005). Brief report: Autism in individuals with Down syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 35(5), 665-673. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-005-0010-0
International Molecular Genetic Study of Autism Consortium. (2001). A genomewide screen for autism: Strong evidence for linkage to chromosomes 2q, 7q, and 16p. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 69(3), 570-581. https://doi.org/10.1086/323264
International Molecular Genetic Study of Autism Consortium. (2001). Further characterization of the autism susceptibility locus AUTS1 on chromosome 7q. Human Molecular Genetics, 10(9), 973-982. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/10.9.973
Starr, E., Berument, S. K., Pickles, A., Tomlins, M., Bailey, A., Papanikolaou, K., & Rutter, M. (2001). A family genetic study of autism associated with profound mental retardation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 31(1), 89-96. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005669915105
Pickles, A., Starr, E., Kazak, S. İ. B. E. L., Bolton, P., Papanikolaou, K., Bailey, A., & Rutter, M. (2000). Variable expression of the autism broader phenotype: Findings from extended pedigrees. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 41(4), 491-502. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-7610.00634
International Molecular Genetic Study of Autism Consortium. (1998). A full genome screen for autism with evidence for linkage to a region on chromosome 7q. Human Molecular Genetics, 7(3), 571-578. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/7.3.571