Theses from the ARC
Explore a selection of PhD theses by ARC students.
2021
Alex Tsompanidis: Sex differences in human perinatal development and autism
Nazia Jassim: The neurocognitive mechanisms of perceptual inference in autism
Tanya Procyshyn: Effects of Oxytocin on the Social Brain in Autistic and Typical Women
Elizabeth Weir: The Physical Health and Healthcare of Autistic Adults
2020
Mariann Kovacs: Educational and Vocational Disengagement in Autistic Young Adults
Sarah Hampton: Autistic Mothers and the Perinatal Period: Maternal Experiences and Infant Development
Arkoprovo Paul: The Role of Synaptic Genes NRXN1 and SHANK3 in Autism: An Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Study
Aicha Massral: Cellular Phenotypes Associated with NRXN1 Mutations in Autism
Ezra Aydin: Fetal Biometry and Early Behavioural Development
2019
Owen Parsons: Perception, Expectation and Uncertainty in Autism
2018
Varun Warrier: The Genetics of Autism and Related Traits
2017
Richard Bethlehem: Effects of Hormones, Genetics, and Sex on Typical and Atypical Brain Organization
Dwaipayan Adhya: The Role of Testosterone and Atypical Gene Networks in Autism: An Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Study
2016
Jan Freyberg: Psychophysics of Excitation and Inhibition in Autism
Alexa Pohl: The Fetal Steroid Theory of Autism: Androgens, Estrogens, and Sex-Differential Autism Risk
2015
Dorothea Floris: Asymmetry in Autism: Brain Structure, Function and Behaviour
Stephanie Mok: Social Fear Learning in Oxytocin Receptor Knockout Mice and People with Autism Spectrum Conditions
Amber Ruigrok: Testosterone and Androgen Receptor Effects on Sex Differences in White Matter in the Human Brain
2014
Rebecca Clark-Elford: Affective Modulation of Oxytocin on Cognition in Social Anxiety: Exploring Affective Reward, Attention and Instrumental Learning
2013
Lindsay Chura: A Structured Neuroimaging Investigation of the Corpus Callosum in Typically Developing Children and in Autism
Rosie Holt: Investigating Individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions and their Siblings; Cognitive Measures, Brain Structure and Function
Caroline Robertson: Atypical Dynamics of Visual Perception in Autism
2012
Sophia (Xiang) Sun: Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Conditions in China
2011
Meng-Chuan Lai: How is Sex Related to Autism?
Teresa Tavassoli: Sensory Perception in Autism Spectrum Conditions
2010
Mike Lombardo: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Self-Referential and Social Cognition in Autism and the General Population
2009
Carrie Allison: The Quantitative Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (Q-CHAT)
2008
Emma Chapman
Gina Owen: Using Systemising to Facilitate Social Competence in Autism
2007
Julian Asher
Bonnie Auyeung: Foetal Testosterone, Cognitive Sex Differences and Autistic Traits
Jaclyn Billington: Systemising: A Cognitive and Neural Perspective
Richard Griffin: Early Social Understanding in Toddlers with Autism
2006
Bhismadev Chakrabarti: Individual Differences in Human Emotion Perception
Ofer Golan: Systemising Emotions: Teaching Emotion Recognition to People with Autism Using Interactive Multimedia
2005
Rebecca Knickmeyer: Prenatal testosterone and autism
2004
Chris Ashwin: Investigating the Social Brain in Autism
John Lawson
2000
Svetlana Luchmaya: Foetal Testosterone and Social-Communicative Development
1998
Michelle O’Riordan: Reduced Perception of Similarity in Autism
1997
Jamie Craig: Imagination and Creativity in Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome
Therese Joliffe: Central Coherence Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorder
1996
Fiona Scott: Reasoning, Imagery and Imagination in Autism
1994
Tony Charman
1993
Wendy Phillips: Understanding Intention and Desire by Children with Autism
1985
Simon Baron-Cohen: Social Cognition and Pretend Play in Autism