Growing evidence from preclinical studies, epidemiology, and randomized controlled trials supports a causal role for diet quality in mental disorder risk, and clinical psychiatric guidelines now place diet, along with other life-style behaviors, as foundational treatment targets for mood disorders. ...

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Language disorder is highly prevalent in youth justice; however, orofacial, oromotor, speech, and voice anomalies have been largely overlooked. There has been some documentation of these among individuals with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE), and adolescents with PAE are over-represented in youth justice. ...

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To determine the proportion of child maltreatment-related emergency department presentations in WA and describe the types of injuries associated with them. ...

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The Opportunity We are seeking a researcher with experience in consultative research methods to work with the Association of Australian Medical ...

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Indigenous Australians harbour rich and unique genomic diversity. However, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestries are historically under-represented in genomics research and almost completely missing from reference datasets. Addressing this representation gap is critical, both to advance our understanding of global human genomic diversity and as a prerequisite for ensuring equitable outcomes in genomic medicine. ...

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To determine whether there was an independent effect of breastfeeding on child and adolescent mental health ...

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• 2010
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A Telethon Kids Institute study has found a popular education programme where teenagers care for a "robot" baby fails to reduce teen pregnancy, and could in fac ...

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We detail the unique findings from an Aboriginal early child development research project with a specific focus on the Nyoongar/Aboriginal community of Perth ...

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• 2020
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The Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing Team follows an holistic definition of Aboriginal Health which means that health is not just the physical wellbeing of an individual but includes the social, emotional and cultural wellbeing of the whole community. ...

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