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Autism Symposium
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Minecraft for young people with Autism
The Bridge spoke to Stuart Duncan, who has developed Autcraft – Minecraft for young people with Autism.
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Professor Uta Frith – ‘a trailblazer for autism’
Interview with Professor Uta Frith, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development at University College London about her life, career and research on autism spectrum disorders.
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Early intervention for teenagers on the autism spectrum
An emerging initiative for teenagers on the autism spectrum, their parents and siblings, from Dr Bairbre Glynn, Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
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Gender identity and children with autism spectrum disorder
Consultant Psychiatrist Ruth Bevan introduces Gender Dysphoria and Gender Identity Disorder and discusses the assessment and treatment of Gender Identity Disorder in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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Testing the social motivation theory of autism: the role of co-occurring anxiety
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘This study tests the mechanisms underlying the association between social motivation and autistic traits.’ Eloise Bagg et al.
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Diagnostic certainty during in-person and telehealth autism evaluations
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘Differences emerged in the frequency of diagnoses evaluated and made and diagnostic certainty for evaluations conducted via telehealth during the pandemic compared to in person before the pandemic, which likely impacted patients and reflect real-word challenges.’ Natasha N. Ludwig (pic) et al.
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Infant sleep predicts trajectories of social attention and later autism traits
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We used a prospective longitudinal design in infants with a family history of ASD and/or ADHD to examine infant sleep and its relation to trajectories of attention and later neurodevelopmental disorders.’ Jannath Begum-Ali et al.
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Parental insightfulness is associated with mother–father–child interactions among families of preschoolers with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘The goal of the current study was to examine this association in families with children with ASD. The hypothesis was that the interactions in families in which both parents are insightful will be more cooperative than in families in which only one or neither parent was insightful.’ David Oppenheim (pic) et al.
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Autism spectrum disorder and brain volume link through a set of mTOR-related genes
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘Here we investigated whether variants in mTOR-related genes are also associated with ASD and if they constitute a genetic link between large brains and ASD.’ Martina Arenella et al.
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