Congratulations to Senior Research Fellow Dr Aveni Haynes from the Telethon Kids Institute Rio Tinto Children’s Diabetes Centre and the University of Western Australia, on being awarded a JDRF International Career Development Award (CDA) with $1.4m funding committed over the next five years. ...

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Exposure to surgery and anesthesia in early childhood has been found to be associated with an increased risk of behavioral deficits. While the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned against prenatal exposure to anesthetic drugs, little clinical evidence exists to support this recommendation. This study evaluates the association between prenatal exposure to general anesthesia due to maternal procedures during pregnancy and neuropsychological and behavioral outcome scores at age 10. ...

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• 2021
• January 2021

The burden of mental health problems among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is a major public health problem in Australia. ...

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• 2012
• September 2012

This paper provides Australian population-level estimates of the prevalence of parental self-reported lifetime mental disorders and past 12 month mental disorders in their children ...

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• 2018
• August 2018

The prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents in Australia, and the severity and impact of those mental disorders ...

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• 2016
• September 2016

High consumption of refined carbohydrate, in particular sugar, has been identified as a possible contributory factor in greater risk of excess weight gain. ...

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• 2013
• July 2013

Francis Steve Mitrou Zubrick FG SR BEc FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, Human Development and Community ...

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This paper aimed to describe the relationships between level of impairment and participation in community activities for girls and women with Rett syndrome. ...

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• 2014
• July 2014

Aim: To compare growth in individuals with cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (CDKL5) deficiency disorder with population norms and to investigate the effect of gastrostomy on growth.  ...

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• 2023
• October 2023

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