Dr Holan Liang is a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Great Ormond Street Hospital where she is joint clinical lead for the National Tourette’s Syndrome Clinic. Her special interest is in neurodevelopmental disorders including ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Tourette’s syndrome and intellectual disability. She has been Honorary Senior Lecturer at the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, and Clinical Research Fellow at The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
Dr Liang has over 15 years’ experience in specialist child and adolescent psychiatry including leading neurodevelopmental disorders services in London and Hertfordshire. She is involved in clinical research in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders including clinical drug trials and international genetic studies. She is an elected member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty Executive Committee.
She has been actively involved in teaching undergraduate and postgraduates in neurodevelopmental disorders for over 15 years at King’s College London and University College London and frequently peer reviews proposals and papers for NIHR and the BMJ.
Paediatric tic-like presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Buts, S., Duncan, M., Owen, T., Martino, D., Pringsheim, T., Byrne, S., McWilliams, A., Murphy, T., Malik, O., Liang.H., Heyman, I. & Hedderly T. (2021). Archives of Disease in Childhood. DOI 10.1136/archdischild-2021-323002.
Bennett, S.D., Kerry, E., Fifield, K., Ching, B., Catanzano, M., Liang, H., Heyman, I., Coughtrey, A.E., Sanderson, C., Rojas, N. & Shafran, R. (2021). A drop-in centre for treating mental health problems in children with chronic illness: outcomes for parents and their relationship with child outcomes. JCPP Advances/ DOI: 10.1002/jcv2.12046
Oscillatory neural network alterations in young people with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and associations with co-occurring symptoms of autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Shephard, E., McEwen, F., Earnest, T., Friedrich, N., Mortl, I., Liang, H., Woodhouse, E., The TS2000 Study Team, Tye., C. & Bolton, P.F. (2021) Cortex DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.10.007
Catanzano, M., Bennett, S. D., Kerry, E., Liang, H., Heyman, I., Coughtrey, A. E., ... & Shafran, R. (2021). Evaluation of a mental health drop-in centre offering brief transdiagnostic psychological assessment and treatment for children and adolescents with long-term physical conditions and their families: a single-arm, open, non-randomised trial. Evidence- based mental health, 24(1), 25-32.
COVID-19 related increase in childhood tics and tic-like attacks. Heyman, I, Liang, H. & Hedderly, T. (2021). Archives of Disease in Childhood 106(5): DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2021-321748
Catanzano, M., Bennett, S. D., Tibber, M. S., Coughtrey, A. E., Liang, H., Heyman, I., The Lucy Project Team & Shafran, R. (2021). A Mental Health Drop-In Centre Offering Brief Transdiagnostic Psychological Assessment and Treatment in a Paediatric Hospital Setting: A One-Year Descriptive Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(10), 5369.
Batchelor, R., Catanzano, M., Kerry, E., Bennett, S. D., Coughtrey, A. E., Liang, H., ... & Shafran, R. (2020). Debate: Lessons learned in lockdown–a one‐day remotely delivered training on low‐ intensity psychological interventions for common mental health conditions. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 25(3), 175-177.
Actigraph-measured movement correlates of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in young people with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) with and without intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). (2020) T. Earnest, E. Shephard, C. Tye, F. McEwen, E. Woodhouse, H. Liang, F. Sheerin and P. F. Bolton. Brain Sciences. Jul28; 10(8): E492. doi: 10.3390/brainsci10080491.
Brief psychological interventions for psychiatric disorders in young people with long term physical health conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2020) M Catanzano, S Bennett, PhD, C Sanderson, M Patel, G Manzotti, E Kerry, A Coughtrey, PhD, H Liang, I Heyman, PhD, R Shafran, PhD, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2020.110187
Guidance for identification and treatment of individuals with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder based upon expert consensus. Young, S., Hollingdale J., Absoud, M., Bolton, P., Branney, P., Colley, A., Craze, E., Dave, M., Deeley, Q., Farrag, E., Gudjonsson, G., Hill, P., Liang, H., Murphy, C., Mackintosh, P., Murin, M., O’Regan, F., Ougrin, D., Rios, P., Stover, N., Taylor, E. & Woodhouse, E. (2020) BMC Medicine 18, 146. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01585-y
Tye, C, McEwen, F.S, Liang, H, Underwood, L, Woodhouse, E, Barker, E.D., Sheerin, F, Higgins, N, Steenbruggen, J.R.W, Yates, J.F. TS2000 Group and Bolton, P.F. (2019). Long‐term cognitive outcomes in tuberous sclerosis complex. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology (On-line: DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.14356).
Corbet Burcher, G., Liang, H., Lancaster, R., Cross, JH., Tisdall, M., Varadkar, S., Spoudeas, HA., Caredda, E., Bennett, S., , Heyman, I. (2019). The neuropsychiatric profile of children and adolescents with hypothalamic hamartoma; a systematic review and case series. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology (On-line: DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.14241).
Simonoff, E., Taylor, E., Baird, G., Bernard, S., Chadwick, O., Liang, H., Riemer, K., Sharma Pandey, S., Sharma, K., Wood, N., Kelly, J., Golaszewski, A., Kennedy, J., Rodney, L., West, N., Walwyn, R., Jichi, F. (2013) Randomized controlled double-blind trial of optimal dose methylphenidate in children and adolescents with severe attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and intellectual disability. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 54 (5): 527-535.
Krebs, G., Liang, H., Hilton, K., Macdiarmid, F., & Heyman, I. (2012). Computer-assisted assessment of obsessive-compulsive disorder in young people: A preliminary evaluation of the Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA). Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 17, 246-251.
Liang, H., Pickles, A., Wood, N. & Simonoff, E., (2012) Early Adolescent Emotional and Behavioural Outcomes of Non-parental Preschool Childcare. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology , 47, 399-407.
Liang, H., Simonoff, E., (2009) Learning Disabilities. In J. B. Benson & M. M. Haith (Eds). Diseases and Disorders in Infancy and Early Childhood. Elsevier Publishing.
Liang, H., Simonoff, E., (2008) Learning Disabilities. In M. M. Haith, J. B. Benson. (Eds) Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development (Volume 2) San Diego: Academic Press.
Liang, H., Flisher, A.J. & Lombard, C. (2007). Bullying, violence and risk behaviours in South African school students. Child Abuse & Neglect, 31, 161-171.
Flisher, A.J., Ward, C.L., Liang, H., Onya, H., Mlisa, N., Terblanche, S., Bhana, A., Parry, C.D.H., & Lombard, C. (2006). Injury-related behaviour among South African high-school students at six sites. South African Medical Journal, 96, 825-830.
Liang, H. & Eley, T.C. (2005). A Monozygotic Twin Differences Study of Nonshared Environmental Influence on Adolescent Depressive Symptoms. Child Development. 76, 1247-1260.
Flisher, A.J., Liang, H. Laubscher, R. & Lombard, C. (2004). Suicide trends in South Africa 1968-1990. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 32, 411-418.
Eley, T.C., Liang, H., Plomin, R., Sham, P., Sterne, A., Williamson, R. & Purcell, S. (2004) Parental Vulnerability, Family Environment and their Interactions as Predictors of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents. The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 43, 298-306.
Liang, H., Flisher, A.J. & Chalton, D.O., (2003), Violence and Substance Use in Adolescents with Increasing Severity of Suicidal Behaviour, Archives of Suicide Research, 7, 29-40.
Liang, H., Flisher, A.J. & Chalton, D.O. (2002), Physical and Mental Health in Out of School Children in a South African Township, European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 11, 257-260.
