Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Autism; Managing Feelings of Anxiety, Sadness, Anger – A Prof. Tony Attwood special (recording)
Delegates ONLY. In this 2 hour webinar, including a Q & A session, Professor Tony Attwood looks at the complexities of expressing and managing feelings for children and young people with autism. There are effective interventions, tips, and advice, that can be used immediately. Recordings available for 90 days.
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Autism; Making Friends – A Prof. Tony Attwood Special (recording)
Delegates ONLY. In this 2 hour webinar, including a Q & A session, Professor Tony Attwood looks at strategies to improve social understanding and friendship skills for children and young people with autism. There are effective interventions, tips, and advice, that can be used immediately. Recordings available for 90 days.
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Co-development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic trait trajectories from childhood to early adulthood
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism, defined as traits or disorders, commonly co-occur. Developmental trajectories of ADHD and autistic traits both show heterogeneity in onset and course, but little is known about how symptom trajectories co-develop into adulthood.’ Amy Shakeshaft (pic) et al.
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Editorial: What’s in a name? Drawing on the examples of autism and schizophrenia, some reflections on diagnostic labels and their future role in child and adolescent psychiatry
Free Access paper from the JCPP – ‘The diagnostic labels that children and adolescents receive feed into their treatment access and future potential but also to their self-identities. […] the choice of labels used in child and adolescent psychiatry should remain a priority, in light of their impact on translational science, treatment and on individuals, alongside the ever-evolving nature of language itself’. Angelica Ronald (pic)
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Can repeated intranasal oxytocin administration affect reduced neural sensitivity towards expressive faces in autism? A randomized controlled trial
Paper from the JCPP – ‘Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by difficulties in social communication and interaction. Crucial for efficient social interaction is the ability to quickly and accurately extract information from a person’s face.’ Matthijs Moerkerke (pic) et al.
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JCPP Editorial: Volume 64, Issue 05, May 2023
Editorial: ‘Is autism overdiagnosed?’ by Eric Fombonne
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Depression in Autism and ADHD: What do we know?
In this ‘In Conversation’ podcast, Dr. Lucy Livingston provides insight into the comorbidity of Depression in Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Autism.
Lucy will be presenting a talk on the same topic, entitled ‘Depression in Autism and ADHD: What do We Know?’, at the JCPP Advances 2023 Lecture series ‘What the research tells us; Anxiety, Neurodiversity, Suicide, and Genetics’ on 11 May 2023.
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Championing research about, by and for neurodivergent people
How neurodiversity-inspired thinking is casting a new light on brain development research, with neurodivergent young people at its core.
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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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Autism Resources Update
This World Autism Acceptance Week (27 March to 2 April 2023), we have collated a number of FREE learning resources from leading academics, clinicians, and researchers to build upon our previous catalogue of resources for World Autism Acceptance Week 2022.
We encourage you to explore the learning opportunities available on our website, sign up for our fantastic upcoming events below, and do share with your networks.
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