About the app The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a period of social change for many of us. Families encountered a range of new stresses, with their ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Research Impact
• 2020
• Research translation

NDD's such as ASD, ADHD and ID, commonly emerge during early development and impacts function across cognitive, social-emotional, communication and sensorimotor ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• January 2018

A new study that combines data from over 20 million births has found that a caesarean section delivery is associated with autism spectrum disorder (autism) and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ...

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• 2019
• August

Parent-infant interactions provide the foundation for the development of infant socioemotional wellbeing. Preterm birth can have a substantial, and often detrimental, impact on the quality of early parent-infant interactions. Sensory processing difficulties, common in preterm infants, are further associated with poorer interaction quality. ...

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• 2022
• July 2022

Birth cohort studies provide an invaluable resource for studies of the influence of the fetal environment on health in later life. ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

These data highlight that early life levels of vitamin D are an important consideration for maternal behavioural adaptations as well as offspring neuropsychiatry ...

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• 2018
• May 2018

Liz Tim Davis Jones EA TW MBBS FRACP PhD MBBS DCH FRACP MD Head, Chronic & Severe Diseases Research Focus Area; Clinical Lead, Diabetes and Obesity ...

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• Chronic and Severe Diseases
• Diabetes, Metabolism and Clinical Sciences
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The D-Light program, set up in 2014, aims to shed light on the amount of sun exposure that will promote good health in children and adolescents. ...

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• 2016
• May

Alexander David Martyn Larcombe Martino Symons A DM MS BScEnv (Hons) PhD BSc PhD B.A. (Hons) PhD. Team Leader, Respiratory Environmental Health Head, ...

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Numerous studies have observed that a proportion of infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience accelerated head growth... ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2015
• January 2015