Amy Keely Liz Leanne Elmie Bec Finlay-Jones Bebbington Davis Fried Janse Van Rensburg Sampson AFJ KB EA LF EJVR BS BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) MClinPsych/PhD MBBS FRACP PhD BSc DipEd MSpEd EdD BA, BSc BSc, BPsych ( ...

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Self-regulation is a modifiable protective factor for lifespan mental and physical health outcomes. Early caregiver-mediated interventions to promote infant and child regulatory outcomes prevent long-term developmental, emotional and behavioural difficulties and improve outcomes such as school readiness, educational achievement and economic success. To harness the population health promise of these programmes, there is a need for more nuanced understanding of the impact of these interventions. ...

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• 2021
• June 2021

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by exposure to alcohol in utero. It has pervasive, lifelong impacts and is recognised as a major public health concern in many countries where alcohol is used. The FASD Research Australia Centre of Research Excellence was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council to generate and translate evidence to address prevention, diagnosis, and management of FASD in Australia. ...

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• 2022
• March 2022

Children born to parents with intellectual disability (ID) have been shown as disproportionally represented in child protection services however with limited population-based research. ...

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• 2022
• February 2022

A balanced approach toward sun exposure and protection is needed by young people. Excessive sun exposure increases their risk for skin cancers such as melanoma, whereas some exposure is necessary for vitamin D and healthy bones. We have developed a new iOS smartphone app-Sun Safe-through a co-design process, which aims to support healthy and balanced decision-making by young teenagers (aged 12-13 years). ...

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• 2022
• January 2022

Variation over time in medical conditions and health service utilization of children with Down syndrome. ...

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• 2011
• February 2011

Melissa Gail Matt Jenny Andrew Licari Alvares Cooper Downs Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew ML GA MC JA AJ PhD PhD BCA Marketing, BSc Statistics and Applied Statistics, PhD BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD PhD Senior Research Fellow Senior Research ...

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Increased risk of autism spectrum disorder with intellectual disability and cerebral palsy with intellectual disability for mothers of some foreign-born groups ...

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• 2019
• January 2019

According to the Young Minds Matter study, mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression are experienced by approximately one in seven or 560,000 young people in Australia. These disorders can often have a significant impact on children’s learning and development and on family life. ...

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To test the hypothesis that maternal antenatal exposure to life stress events is associated with lower achievement in literacy and numeracy at age 10 years,... ...

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• 2012
• March 2012

Review of the clinical and biological progress over 50 years in Rett Syndrome ...

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• 2017
• January 2017

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

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• 2010
• April 2010