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Brain and behaviour research encompasses a child's learning, development and mental health - and the impact and development of conditions like cerebral palsy, autism and intellectual disability.
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Virtually More ConvenientORIGINS is now offering telehealth appointments for the paediatric assessment at the one- and three-year timepoints
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New research to tackle rising food allergies in kidsnew research at The Kids Research Institute Australia will look at the diets of mums to see if regularly eating more eggs or peanuts during pregnancy and while breastfeeding
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SYMBA is promoting gut health (symbiosis) with prebiotic fibre taken during pregnancy for prevention of allergic disease.
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ORIGINS Co-Director nominated in the 2024 Western Australian of the Year AwardsORIGINS Co-Director nominated in the 2024 Western Australian of the Year Awards
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Nature Connection: Providing a Pathway from Personal to Planetary HealthThe vast and growing challenges for human health and all life on Earth require urgent and deep structural changes to the way in which we live. Broken relationships with nature are at the core of both the modern health crisis and the erosion of planetary health. A declining connection to nature has been implicated in the exploitative attitudes that underpin the degradation of both physical and social environments and almost all aspects of personal physical, mental, and spiritual health.
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Child health a focus in national research grantsThe Kids Research Institute Australia researchers have been awarded more than $8 million in prestigious project grants from the NHMRC.
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Understanding allergiesResearchers around the world, including at The Kids Research Institute Australia, are playing catch up as they try to understand what is causing the big increase in allergies