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Pregnant women who already have an autistic child are being sought for a study by the Autism Research Team at WA's The Kids for Child Health Research.
Dr Andrew Whitehouse from Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research shortlisted as a finalist for the prestigious 2012 Australian Museum Eureka Prize
A new study from Perth's The Kids for Child Health Research has uncovered more evidence of a link between early testosterone levels and autism.
We used population data on Western Australian singletons born from 1984 to 1999 (n = 398,353) to examine the sociodemographic characteristics of children...
Fetal head circumference (HC) growth was examined prospectively in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
The etiology of autism spectrum disorders is unknown but there are claims of increasing prevalence in many countries.
Prenatal exposure to testosterone has been shown to affect fetal brain maturation as well as postnatal cognition and behavior in animal studies.
This is the first prospective study to identify an association between early life testosterone exposure and pragmatic language difficulties in girls
This paper discusses changes in diagnostic criteria, decreasing age at diagnosis, improved case ascertainment, diagnostic substitution, and social influences.
Evidence that some children also develop autistic symptomatology over time has raised suggestions that developmental language disorder...