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Directing immune development to curb sky-rocketing diseaseOnce upon a time it was infectious diseases like polio, measles or tuberculosis that most worried parents. With these threats now largely under control, parents face a new challenge – sky-rocketing rates of non-infectious diseases such as asthma, allergies and autism.
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Developing national guidelines for intervention with children on the autism spectrum in AustraliaInvestigators: Prof Andrew Whitehouse, Prof David Trembath Project description This project involves developing a national practice guideline for
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Autistic-like traits in childhood predict later age at menarche in girlsWe investigated the relationship between autistic-like traits in early childhood and age at menarche in typically developing girls.
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Are autistic traits in the general population stable across development?The current investigation measured AT in 360 males and 400 males from the general population close to two decades apart, using the Pervasive Developmental...
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Unpacking the complex nature of the autism epidemicThis paper discusses changes in diagnostic criteria, decreasing age at diagnosis, improved case ascertainment, diagnostic substitution, and social influences.
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Adult psychosocial outcomes of children with specific language impairment, pragmatic language impairment and autismEvidence that some children also develop autistic symptomatology over time has raised suggestions that developmental language disorder...
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Bridging the gap: unveiling key links between autism and anxiety symptoms in autistic children and youth using a network analysis in pooled data from four countriesAutistic children experience significantly higher rates of anxiety compared to nonautistic children. The precise relations between autism characteristics and anxiety symptoms remain unclear in this population. Previous work has explored associations at the domain level, which involve examining broad categories or clusters of symptoms, rather than the relationships between specific symptoms and/or individual characteristics. We addressed this gap by taking a network approach to understand the shared structure of autism characteristics and anxiety symptoms.