Browsing by Subject "Autism"
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An Investigation of Physiological Arousal in Children with Autism and Co-morbid Challenging Behaviour
Challenging behaviour is prevalent among individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). While operant theory has allowed for the development of effective behavioural interventions for challenging behaviours such as ... -
Autistic Tendencies: The Consequences for Our Culture
(2006)Professor Michael Fitzgeraldtalks withJoe Griffinabout the powerful impact, both positive and negative, of autistic thinking in diverse walks of life. -
Convergence of Genes and Cellular Pathways Dysregulated in Autism Spectrum Disorders
(2014)Rare copy-number variation (CNV) is an important source of risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). We analyzed 2,446 ASD-affected families and confirmed an excess of genic deletions and duplications in affected versus ... -
Creating communicative opportunities for autistic children
(2021)Our approach to working with children with autism in this article is not about the engagement philosophies but rather is focussed at a social communicative level: not just hearing and seeing but listening and understanding, ... -
Deep Learning for Neuroimaging: Advancing Brain-Based Biomarkers of Autism Spectrum Disorder
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Psychiatry, 2023)In the last decade, deep learning (DL) has revolutionised fields like speech and vision through artificial neural networks. Can DL similarly transform biological psychiatry and neuroimaging? This thesis explores that ... -
Dinosaurs in the classroom: Using the creative arts to engage young children with autism
(2021)Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders that are characterised by challenges with social communication and restricted, repetitive behaviours and interests (APA, 2013). Young children with ASD ... -
An examination of the benefits of incorporating aspects of play therapy, speech and language therapy and physiotherapy into the classroom for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder to enhance their educational experience.
(STER, 2024-04)This dissertation seeks to examine how the implementation of elements of play therapy, speech and language therapy (SLT) and physiotherapy into the classroom of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can enhance ... -
Exploring Neurocognitive Factors Underlying Autism and Hyperphagia in Prader-Willi Syndrome
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Psychiatry, 2024)Background: Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare complex multisystem genetic disorder recognised as the most common genetic cause of life-threatening obesity in humans (Butler, 1996). The PWS genotype gives rise to a ... -
Functionality of promoter microsatellites of arginine vasopressin receptor 1A (AVPR1A): implications for Autism.
(BIOMED CENTRAL, 2011)Background: Arginine vasopressin (AVP) has been hypothesized to play a role in aetiology of autism based on a demonstrated involvement in the regulation of social behaviours. The arginine vasopressin receptor 1A gene (AVPR1A) ... -
Genetic risk for schizophrenia and autism, social impairment and developmental pathways to psychosis
(2018)While psychotic experiences (PEs) are assumed to represent psychosis liability, general population studies have not been able to establish significant associations between polygenic risk scores (PRS) and PEs. Previous work ... -
A genomewide scan for common alleles affecting risk for autism.
(Oxford University Press, 2010)Although autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have a substantial genetic basis, most of the known genetic risk has been traced to rare variants, principally copy number variants (CNVs). To identify common risk variation, the ... -
A genomewide scan for common alleles affecting risk for autism.
(2010)Although autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have a substantial genetic basis, most of the known genetic risk has been traced to rare variants, principally copy number variants (CNVs). To identify common risk variation, the ... -
He said, she said: Autism spectrum diagnosis and gender differentially affect relationships between executive functions and social communication
(2019)Autism spectrum disorder is characterized by difficulties with social communication, with a preponderance in males. Evidence supports a relationship between metacognitive executive functions (e.g. planning, ... -
How do typically developing siblings of autistic children experience the parent child relationship? A qualitative study of attachment and ambiguous loss in young children living in Ireland
This thesis is about children, childhood and the parent child relationship in Ireland in the context of Autism Spectrum Disorder and these issues are explored qualitatively, primarily from the typically developing child’s ... -
In God we trust? Organised religion and personal beliefs as resources and coping strategies, and their implications for health in parents with a child on the autistic spectrum
(1999)This paper is part of a larger study looking at the impact on 60 families of having a child with autistic spectrum disorder. Here the roles played by organised reliagion and personal belief and their relationship with ... -
Insufficient Evidence for "Autism-Specific" Genes
(2020)Despite evidence that deleterious variants in the same genes are implicated across multiple neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders, there has been considerable interest in identifying genes that, when mutated, ... -
Inversion effects in the perception of the moving human form - A comparison of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and typically developing adolescents
(2013)The “body inversion effect” refers to superior recognition of upright than inverted images of the human body and indicates typical configural processing. Previous research by Reed et al. using static images of the human ...