Autism is a disorder characterized by a core impairment in social behaviour. A prominent component of this social deficit is poor orienting to speech. ...

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• 2008
• July 2008

Director of CliniKids, Professor Andrew Whitehouse, and Professor Murray Maybery, have been identified as the world’s most frequent autism research collaborators of the decade. ...

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• 2020
• June

This study tested the 'Extreme Male Brain' theory & androgyny accounts of Autism spectrum disorder. ...

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• 2015
• July 2015

This qualitative study of parental interviews provided a preliminary examination of whether behaviours consistent with the BAP may have been exacerbated by... ...

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• 2014
• August 2014

In this review, we comprehensively evaluate the rationale for oxytocin as a therapeutic, evaluating evidence from various various sources. ...

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• 2017
• January 2017

Prevalence statistics for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) vary widely across geographical boundaries. Some variation can be explained by diagnostic methods... ...

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• 2011
• February 2011

An existing randomised controlled trial was used to investigate whether multiple ultrasound scans may be associated with the autism phenotype. ...

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• 2012
• March 2012

Standard peer mentoring approaches can be enhanced to meet the needs of students with ASD by including training for mentors on ASD ...

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• 2018
• December 2018

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 ...

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• 2018
• August 2018

Functional impairment is a core feature of both autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorders. While diagnostically independent, they can co-occur in the same individual at both the trait and diagnostic levels. The effect of such co-occurrence is hypothesized to worsen functional impairment. The diametric model, however, suggests that the disorders are etiologically and phenotypically diametrical, representing the extreme of a unidimensional continuum of cognition and behavior. ...

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• 2022
• April 2022