Technology-based interventions may provide a relatively low-cost addition to existing therapist-delivered interventions for children with ASD ...

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• 2017
• September 2017

Prenatal exposure to testosterone is known to affect fetal brain maturation and later neurocognitive function. ...

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• 2013
• February 2013

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between duration of breastfeeding and educational outcomes. ...

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• 2011
• January 2011

Early parent-child interactions have a critical impact on the developmental outcomes of the child. It has been reported that infants with a family history of autism and their parents may engage in different patterns of behaviours during interaction compared to those without a family history of autism. This study investigated the association of parent-child interactions with child developmental outcomes of those with typical and elevated likelihood of autism. ...

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• 2023
• February 2023

Childhood aggressive behavior (AGG) has a substantial heritability of around 50%. Here we present a genome-wide association meta-analysis (GWAMA) of childhood AGG, in which all phenotype measures across childhood ages from multiple assessors were included. We analyzed phenotype assessments for a total of 328 935 observations from 87 485 children aged between 1.5 and 18 years, while accounting for sample overlap. ...

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• 2021
• June 2021

Economic preferences may be shaped by exposure to sex hormones around birth. Prior studies of economic preferences and numerous other phenotypic characteristics use digit ratios (2D : 4D), a purported proxy for prenatal testosterone exposure, whose validity has recently been questioned. We use direct measures of neonatal sex hormones (testosterone and oestrogen), measured from umbilical cord blood (n = 200) to investigate their association with later-life economic preferences (risk preferences, competitiveness, time preferences and social preferences) in an Australian cohort (Raine Study Gen2). ...

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• 2020
• December 2020

Here we investigate these features in an animal model related to autism spectrum disorder - the DVD-deficient rat ...

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• 2019
• May 2019

This study included five mothers of young children with autism who participated in a 12-week parent training program based on the Early Start Denver Model ...

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• 2020
• February 2020

We conducted a study that examined the concordance of diagnoses between a multidisciplinary assessment team and a range of clinicians in Australia. ...

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• 2017
• May 2017

Ratio of second digit length to fourth digit length (2D:4D) has been extensively used in human and experimental research as a marker of fetal sex steroid... ...

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• 2015
• February 2015