Melissa Fiona Helen O'Donnell Stanley Leonard M FJ HM BPsych (Hons), MPsych, GradDip Ed, PhD FAA FASSA MSc MD FFPHM FAFPHM FRACP FRANZCOG HonDSc HonDUniv HonFRACGP HonMD HonFRCPCH HonLLB (honoris causa) MBChB MPH Honorary Research Associate Patron ...

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This WA data linkage study aims to assess whether maternal mental health problems are associated with worse child development outcomes, children’s safety and... ...

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• 2015
• July 2015

Glioblastoma, a rare, and highly lethal form of brain cancer, poses significant challenges in terms of therapeutic resistance, and poor survival rates for both adult and paediatric patients alike. Despite advancements in brain cancer research driven by a technological revolution, translating our understanding of glioblastoma pathogenesis into improved clinical outcomes remains a critical unmet need. ...

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• 2023
• October 2023

Otitis media (OM) is a common childhood disease characterised by middle ear effusion and inflammation. ...

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• 2014
• February 2014

We describe two unusual cases of MPE and use DNA methylation analyses to compare their signatures to try and distinguish if these represent a unique subset. ...

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• 2018
• April 2018

Estimates of the prevalence of intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder may vary depending on the methodology, geographical location, and sources of ascertainment. The National Disability Insurance Scheme in Australia was introduced progressively from 2016 to provide individualized funding for eligible people with a significant and permanent disability. ...

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• 2024
• May 2024

Immunotherapies have revolutionized cancer treatment. In particular, immune checkpoint therapy (ICT) leads to durable responses in some patients with some cancers. However, the majority of treated patients do not respond. Understanding immune mechanisms that underlie responsiveness to ICT will help identify predictive biomarkers of response and develop treatments to convert non-responding patients to responding ones. ICT primarily acts at the level of adaptive immunity. The specificity of adaptive immune cells, such as T and B cells, is determined by antigen-specific receptors. ...

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• 2020
• October 2020

Systematic comparison of recovered cell types and their transcriptional profiles across the workflows has highlighted protocol-specific biase ...

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• 2020
• June 2020

This review explores computational strategies to yield biological insight into the processes involved in the immunotherapeutic response ...

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• 2019
• June 2019

The IDEA system is a valuable resource to address the needs of people living with intellectual disability ...

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• 2019
• October 2019

Mothers of children with intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have poorer health than other mothers. ...

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• 2014
• December 2014

The epidemiological, prognostic, and therapeutic features of child and adolescent meningioma are poorly defined... ...

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• 2011
• November 2011