A5020503976- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Congenital heart defects research
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
- Williams Syndrome Research
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Sleep and related disorders
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Language Development and Disorders
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
Monash University
2015-2024
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
2011-2022
The University of Melbourne
2015-2017
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
2017
University of Ottawa
2007-2011
McGill University
2004-2011
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
2004-2007
University of Nottingham
1996-2005
Université de Montréal
2004
Queen's Medical Centre
1996-2002
An antagonist for the metabotropic glutamate receptor may improve symptoms in patients with fragile X syndrome whose FMR1 promoters are fully methylated.
Abstract Visual selective attention is the ability to attend relevant visual information and ignore irrelevant stimuli. Little known about its typical atypical development in early childhood. Experiment 1 investigates typically developing toddlers’ search for multiple targets on a touch‐screen. Time hit target, distance between successively touched items, accuracy error types revealed changes 2‐ 3‐year‐olds’ vulnerability manipulations of display. 2 examined performance by toddlers with...
Attention is construed as multicomponential, but the roles of its distinct subfunctions in shaping broader developing cognitive landscape are poorly understood. The current study assessed 3‐ to 6‐year‐olds ( N = 83) to: (a) trace developmental trajectories attentional processes and their structure early childhood (b) measure impact attention on concurrent longitudinal abilities related literacy numeracy. Distinct across measures revealed emergence 2 factors, encompassing “executive”...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed risks to public mental health worldwide. University students, who are already recognised as a vulnerable population, at elevated risk of issues given COVID-19-related disruptions higher education. To assist universities in effectively allocating resources the launch targeted, population-level interventions, current study aimed uncover predictors university students’ psychological wellbeing during via data-driven approach. Methods: Data were...
Children experiencing attention difficulties have documented cognitive deficits in working memory (WM), response inhibition and dual tasks. Recent evidence suggests however that these same processes are also closely associated with reading acquisition. This paper therefore explores whether variables predicted or among 123 children without significant problems sampled from the school population. were screened using current WM task measures. Three factors explained variance Response tasks...
Sleep disturbance is common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but longitudinal trajectories are poorly defined. This study measured sleep at baseline and 1 year later examining change over time associated problem behaviors. Participants were 84 gender-matched children, aged between 7 12 years baseline; 46 children diagnosed with ASD, 38 typically developing (TYP) children. Parent reports on a range of scales collected. The ASD group had more than the TYP group. decreased not Reduced was...
Increased severity of problematic daytime behavior has been associated with poorer sleep quality in individuals autism spectrum disorder. In this work, we investigate whether relationship holds a real‐time setting, such that an individual's prior can be used to predict their subsequent behavior. We analyzed extensive real‐world dataset containing over 20,000 nightly observations matched challenging behaviors (aggression, self‐injury, tantrums, property destruction and index) across 67...
Background In typical development, early reading is underpinned by language skills, like vocabulary and phonological awareness ( PA ), as well taught skills letter knowledge. Less understood about how develops in children with neurodevelopmental disorders who display specific profiles of linguistic strengths weaknesses, such Down syndrome DS ) Williams WS ). Methods Early reading, knowledge, rhyme matching, phoneme matching receptive were assessed 26 between 4 8 years, two groups typically...
Background This qualitative study aimed to explore how mothers gave meaning their experiences of raising a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Malaysia.Methods Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, semistructured interviews were conducted 8 Malaysian from different ethnic backgrounds (4 Chinese, 3 Malays, and 1 Indian).Results Three themes for the mothers’ adaptation wellbeing development identified, including Problem realisation within context: Learning spell A-U-T-I-S-M...
Abstract Memory and attention processing were examined in a group of 15 adult Fragile-X syndrome (FXS) males with mental retardation 1 (FMR-1) full mutation compared to two control groups: learning disabled (LD) normal functioning control. Performance was assessed across wide range tasks including working memory, recognition selective attention, sustained attentional switching. All three groups performed at comparable level on memory tasks, the LD worse than attention. On task executive...