Harmful alcohol consumption contributes to poorer health for all people. For Indigenous Peoples of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand alcohol impacts their wellbeing significantly, this is partially explained by both their experiences of colonisation and the resulting impact on structural and social determinants of health. Indigenous Peoples have a recognised right to self-determination, which includes their right to contribute to policy decisions that affect them. ...

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• 2021
• April 2021

Fetal androgens influence fetal growth as well as postnatal neurocognitive ability. ...

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• 2010
• March 2010

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 large population-based study identified no consistent association across two cohorts between prenatal head growth and postnatal autistic traits ...

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• 2018
• April 2018

Andrew Desiree Gail Kandice Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew Silva Alvares Varcin AJ DS GA KJ PhD MBBS, FRACP, MPH, PhD PhD M.Psych (Clinical), PhD Angela Wright Bennett Professor of Autism Research at Telethon Kids and University of Western ...

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The acute tryptophan depletion condition did not result in significant changes to cytokine concentrations for the entire study sample ...

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• 2019
• June 2019

We assess progress towards improved case management of childhood diarrhea in Nigeria over a period of targeted health systems reform from 2013 to 2018. Individual and community data from three Demographic and Health Survey rounds are leveraged in a geospatial model designed for stratified estimation by venue of treatment seeking and State. ...

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• 2024
• May 2024

Serotonin (5-HT) is widely implicated as a key neurotransmitter relevant to a range of psychiatric disorders and psychological processes. The role of central nervous 5-HT function underlying these processes can be examined through serotonergic challenge methodologies. ...

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• 2020
• March 2020

Omar Merridee Sébastien Laurence Rishi Sury Terrance Timo Raelene W. Joost Elaskalani Wouters Malinge Cheung Kotecha Johns Lassmann Endersby Lesterhuis OE MW SM LC RS T T R WJL BSc, MSc, PhD Bsc Hons (Physics), PhD PhD BPharm (Hons) MBA PhD MB ChB ( ...

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Despite initial improvements in survival of infants with ALL since establishment of the first pediatric cooperative group ALL trials, the poor outcome has... ...

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• 2014
• April 2014

Maternal immune activation and prenatal maternal stress are well-studied risk factors for psychiatric conditions such as autism and schizophrenia. Animal studies have proposed the gut microbiome as a mechanism underlying this association and have found that risk factor-related gut microbiome alterations persist in the adult offspring. ...

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• 2024
• August 2024

We tested the hypothesis that these CNTNAP2 variants affect communicative behavior, measured at 2 years of age in a large epidemiological sample... ...

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• 2011
• June 2011