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Sofia Vadlin holds a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the Centre for Clinical Research, County of Västmanland, affiliated with Uppsala University's Faculty of Medicine. Her work focuses on adolescent mental health with emphasis on behavioral addictions and psychiatric assessment tools.
Her primary research interests span gaming disorders, gambling addiction, and adolescent psychiatry, with significant contributions to psychometric validation of diagnostic instruments. Key areas include ADHD assessment through WHO scales, anxiety disorder measurement using Spence Children's Anxiety Scale adaptations, and development of the Gaming Addiction Identification Test (GAIT). Her methodology integrates longitudinal cohort studies with genetic and physiological analyses to explore comorbidities between behavioral addictions and psychiatric symptoms.
Analysis of her 15 most recent publications reveals consistent focus on digital behavioral addictions (gaming/gambling) intersecting with adolescent mental health. Her work demonstrates strong methodological diversity, combining community-based epidemiological studies with laboratory-based physiological measurements and genetic analyses. Recent publications increasingly address pandemic-related mental health impacts while maintaining her core focus on behavioral addiction mechanisms.
Her collaborative network prominently features Kent W. Nilsson, Cecilia Åslund, and Susanne Olofsdotter across multiple publications, indicating sustained research partnerships within Uppsala University's psychiatric research community. While no formal advising roles are documented in the provided materials, her doctoral thesis on problematic gaming and gambling among adolescents suggests mentorship capacity in this specialized field.
