Helen Jenny Peter Leonard Downs Richmond HM JA PC MBChB MPH BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD MBBS MRCP(UK) FRACP Principal Research Fellow Program Head, ...

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Increased risk of autism spectrum disorder with intellectual disability and cerebral palsy with intellectual disability for mothers of some foreign-born groups ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

Clinicians across Australia are looking forward to the release of the country’s first national guidelines for the diagnosis of autism. ...

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• 2017
• July

Delays within the motor domain are often overlooked as an early surveillance marker for autism. The present study evaluated motor difficulties and its potential as an early predictive marker for later autism likelihood in a cohort of infants showing early behavioral signs of autism aged 9-14 months. The motor domain was evaluated using the motor subscales of the Mullen Scales of Early Learning at baseline, and at a 6-month follow-up. ...

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• 2021
• May 2021

Since the discovery of MECP2 duplication syndrome (MDS) in 1999, efforts to characterise this disorder have been limited by a lack of large datasets, with small case series often favouring the reporting of certain conditions over others. This study is the largest to date, featuring 134 males and 20 females, ascertained from the international MECP2 Duplication Database (MDBase). ...

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• 2022
• April 2022

A Telethon Kids Institute researcher devoted to Aboriginal health and justice has been named the inaugural Shell Aboriginal STEM Student of the Year at the 2019 Premier’s Science Awards. ...

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• 2019
• August

Individuals with the CDKL5 disorder have been described as having severely impaired development. ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

Amy Keely Liz Megan Asha Finlay-Jones Bebbington Davis Ansell Parkinson AFJ KB EA MA AP BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) ...

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To investigate developmental trajectories in early childhood and predictors of class assignment. ...

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• 2022
• October 2022

Amy Tess Jack Finlay-Jones Fletcher Brett AFJ TF JB BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) BPsych, PhD BPsych (Hons) Head, ...

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