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Prime Minister visits The Kids

We welcomed the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann and Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop to the Institute.

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National guidelines bring new order to autism diagnosis

Clinicians across Australia are looking forward to the release of the country’s first national guidelines for the diagnosis of autism.

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What is known about consumer nutrition environments in Australia? A scoping review of the literature

This study aimed to summarize the attributes that have been examined in existing peer-reviewed studies of Australian consumer nutrition environments

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Using acute tryptophan depletion to investigate predictors of treatment response in adolescents with major depressive disorder

The major hypothesis of this study is that acute tryptophan depletion will be negatively associated with mood and cognitive functioning

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Parents’ experience and psychoeducation needs when supporting a young person who self-harms

The study highlights the need for support for parents and carers of young people who engage in self-harm

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Systematic assessment of tissue dissociation and storage biases in single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-seq workflows

Systematic comparison of recovered cell types and their transcriptional profiles across the workflows has highlighted protocol-specific biase

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The Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory (CATI): development and validation of a new measure of autistic traits in the general population

Traits and characteristics qualitatively similar to those seen in diagnosed autism spectrum disorder can be found to varying degrees in the general population. To measure these traits and facilitate their use in autism research, several questionnaires have been developed that provide broad measures of autistic traits [e.g. Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), Broad Autism Phenotype Questionnaire (BAPQ)]. However, since their development, our understanding of autism has grown considerably, and it is arguable that existing measures do not provide an ideal representation of the trait dimensions currently associated with autism. Our aim was to create a new measure of autistic traits that reflects our current understanding of autism, the Comprehensive Autism Trait Inventory (CATI).

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The education word gap emerges by 18 months: findings from an Australian prospective study

The idea of the '30 million word gap' suggests families from more socioeconomically advantaged backgrounds engage in more verbal interactions with their child than disadvantaged families. Initial findings from the Language in Little Ones (LiLO) study up to 12 months showed no word gap between maternal education groups.