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This population-based cohort study investigated dental procedures in the hospital setting in Western Australian children with or without intellectual disability (ID) and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) aged up to 18 years.
This study is the first to investigate longitudinal mental health outcomes associated with the use of oxytocin-based medications during labour
this study is the first to show an association between immune activation history in the mother and increased ASD symptom severity in children with ASD
Reading Disability is often characterized by difficulties in the phonology of the language. While the molecular mechanisms underlying it are largely undetermined, loci are being revealed by genome-wide association studies.
While theory supports bidirectional effects between caregiver sensitivity and language use, and infant language acquisition-both caregiver-to-infant and also infant-to-caregiver effects-empirical research has chiefly explored the former unidirectional path. In the context of infants showing early signs of autism, we investigated prospective bidirectional associations with 6-min free-play interaction samples collected for 103 caregivers and their infants (mean age 12-months; and followed up 6-months later).
An existing randomised controlled trial was used to investigate whether multiple ultrasound scans may be associated with the autism phenotype.
This study tested the 'Extreme Male Brain' theory & androgyny accounts of Autism spectrum disorder.
While autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and specific language impairment (SLI) have traditionally been conceptualized as distinct disorders, recent findings...
This study provided evidence for high rate of alternative medicine use in an Australian paediatric ASD population, similar to other countries.
Research conducted by this laboratory has previously published four papers examining the relationship between maternal psychiatric disorders and having a...