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Maternal Serum Vitamin D Levels During Pregnancy and Offspring Neurocognitive DevelopmentNew research links poor language to lack of Vitamin D in womb.
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Where were those rabbits? A new paradigm to determine cerebral lateralisation of visuospatial memory function in childrenIn the majority of people, functional differences are observed between the two cerebral hemispheres: language production is typically subserved by the left...
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CNTNAP2 variants affect early language development in the general populationWe 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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Inner speech impairment in children with autism is associated with greater nonverbal than verbal skillsWe present a new analysis of Whitehouse, Maybery, and Durkin's (2006, Experiment 3) data on inner speech in children with autism (CWA).
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Andrew WhitehouseDeputy Director (Research); Angela Wright Bennett Professor of Autism Research at The Kids Research Institute Australia; Director, CliniKids
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Autism researcher wins accolade for science videosProfessor Andrew Whitehouse has been awarded an Autism Spectrum Australia Recognition Award for his work communicating scientific findings to families.
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Sexually dimorphic facial features vary according to level of autistic-like traits in the general populationThe current data provide support for Bejerot et al.'s androgyny account since males and females with high levels of autistic-like traits generally showed...
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Low maternal serum vitamin D during pregnancy and the risk for postpartum depression symptomsPregnancy is a time of vulnerability for vitamin D insufficiency, and there is an emerging literature associating low levels of 25(OH)-vitamin D with...
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Moving beyond behaviour-only assessment: Incorporating biomarkers to improve the early detection and diagnosis of autism spectrum disordersThis paper presents a response to the Camarata (2014) lead article regarding the accuracy and effectiveness of early identification and early intervention...