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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

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