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Brief report: inhibition of return in young people with autism and Asperger's disorderNicole J Rinehart
Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Autism 12:249-60. 2008..The findings further inform Minshew's complex information processing theory which seeks to establish which areas of neuropsychological functioning are preserved and deficit in autism...
A neurobehavioral examination of individuals with high-functioning autism and Asperger's disorder using a fronto-striatal model of dysfunctionNicole J Rinehart
Monash University
Behav Cogn Neurosci Rev 1:164-77. 2002....- Gait function in newly diagnosed children with autism: Cerebellar and basal ganglia related motor disorderNicole J Rinehart
Centre for Developmental Psychiatry, School of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 48:819-24. 2006..Abnormal gait features are stable across key developmental periods and are, therefore, promising for use in clinical screening for autism... 
An examination of movement kinematics in young people with high-functioning autism and Asperger's disorder: further evidence for a motor planning deficitNicole J Rinehart
Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology, Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Monash Medical Centre, 246, Clayton Road, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
J Autism Dev Disord 36:757-67. 2006..g. "motor clumsiness" in AD versus "abnormal posturing" in autism. It will be important for future research to map the developmental trajectory of motor abnormalities in these disorder groups...- Gait function in high-functioning autism and Asperger's disorder : evidence for basal-ganglia and cerebellar involvement?Nicole J Rinehart
Dept of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Level 3, Block P, Monash Medical Centre 246 Clayton Road, Clayton, Vic, Australia 3168
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 15:256-64. 2006..Gait differences in autism and Asperger's disorder were suggested to reflect differential involvement of the cerebellum, with commonalities reflecting similar involvement of the basal-ganglia frontostriatal region... - Movement-related potentials in high-functioning autism and Asperger's disorderNicole J Rinehart
Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Victoria, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 48:272-7. 2006..The overlap between MRP traces for autism and Parkinson's disease suggests that the neurobiological wiring of motor functioning in autism may bypass the supplementary motor area/primary motor cortex pathway... - Pseudo-random number generation in children with high-functioning autism and Asperger's disorder: further evidence for a dissociation in executive functioning?Nicole J Rinehart
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Australia
Autism 10:70-85. 2006..Qualitative differences in executive dysfunction between these groups may implicate differential disruption within the fronto-striatal circuitry... - Attentional blink in young people with high-functioning autism and Asperger's disorderNicole Rinehart
Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology, Monash University, Australia
Autism 14:47-66. 2010.... - Lateralization in individuals with high-functioning autism and Asperger's disorder: a frontostriatal modelNicole J Rinehart
Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry, Monash Medical Centre, 246 Clayton Rd, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, 3168
J Autism Dev Disord 32:321-331. 2002.... - A clinical and neurobehavioural review of high-functioning autism and Asperger's disorderNicole J Rinehart
School of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 36:762-70. 2002..To compare, contrast and review clinical and neuropsychological studies of high-functioning autism and Asperger's disorder... - White-matter abnormalities in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging studyTimothy J Silk
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Queensland, Australia
Hum Brain Mapp 30:2757-65. 2009..These data add to an emerging picture of abnormal development within fronto-parietal cortical networks that may underpin the cognitive and attentional disturbances associated with ADHD... - Greater disruption to control of voluntary saccades in autistic disorder than Asperger's disorder: evidence for greater cerebellar involvement in autism?Chloe Stanley-Cary
Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Notting Hill, Clayton, Vic, Australia
Cerebellum 10:70-80. 2011..The results support the notion that the integrity of cerebellar modulation of movement may be different in AD and HFA, suggesting potentially differential neurobiological substrates may underpin these complex disorders... - Lexical processing in individuals with high-functioning autism and Asperger's disorderSamantha Speirs
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Autism 15:307-25. 2011..This suggests that fundamental differences in lexical processing exist between HFA and AD and remain evident later in development... - A preliminary transcranial magnetic stimulation study of cortical inhibition and excitability in high-functioning autism and Asperger disorderPeter G Enticott
Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University and the Alfred, Melbourne, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 52:e179-83. 2010..This study examined motor cortical inhibition and excitability in HFA and Asperger disorder using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)... - Effects of external and internal cues on gait function in Williams syndromeDarren R Hocking
Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Notting Hill, Vic, Australia
J Neurol Sci 291:57-63. 2010..These findings suggest that the primary deficit is not one of difficulty regulating stride length in WS, but rather indicates more widespread dysfunction within visuomotor regions... - Understanding mirror neurons: evidence for enhanced corticospinal excitability during the observation of transitive but not intransitive hand gesturesPeter G Enticott
Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University and the Alfred, Australia
Neuropsychologia 48:2675-80. 2010..These findings are consistent with the notion that human hand-related mirror neurons are sensitive to object- and goal-directed behaviour, rather than biological motion per se... - Electrophysiological signs of supplementary-motor-area deficits in high-functioning autism but not Asperger syndrome: an examination of internally cued movement-related potentialsPeter G Enticott
Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Psychology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Dev Med Child Neurol 51:787-91. 2009..We investigated the neurophysiology of internally determined motor activity in autism and Asperger syndrome via examination of movement-related potentials (MRPs)... - Gait function in adults with Williams syndromeDarren R Hocking
Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Building 1, 270 Ferntree Gully Road, Notting Hill, Vic, 3168, Australia
Exp Brain Res 192:695-702. 2009..While these results should be considered preliminary due to the small sample size, these findings have implications for our understanding of the neural basis of gait dysfunction in WS... - Random number generation in autismMark A Williams
Department of Psychology, Monash University, Vic, Australia
J Autism Dev Disord 32:43-7. 2002..Accordingly, low-functioning individuals with autism may exhibit a short-fall in response inhibition. This finding supports the executive dysfunction theory of autism... - Fronto-parietal and cerebellar contributions to motor dysfunction in Williams syndrome: a review and future directionsDarren R Hocking
School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Notting Hill, VIC 3168, Australia
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 32:497-507. 2008..It is concluded that further investigation of motor dysfunction in WS may provide us with a greater understanding of how important movement-related brain regions develop and operate... - Autism and Asperger's disorder: are they movement disorders involving the cerebellum and/or basal ganglia?Ashwini Nayate
Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, Vic, Australia
Brain Res Bull 67:327-34. 2005..This review examines the role of the frontostriatal and cerebellar motor systems in the behavioural features of autism and AD, with gait as a proxy, and discusses difficulties with their diagnosis and their possible pathogenesis... - A kinematic analysis of visually-guided movement in Williams syndromeDarren R Hocking
Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Clayton, Vic, Australia
J Neurol Sci 301:51-8. 2011..Our results indicate that the visuomotor coordination deficits in WS may reflect known impairments of the dorsal stream, but may also indicate a role for the cerebellum in dynamic feed-forward motor control... - Motor proficiency and emotional/behavioural disturbance in autism and Asperger's disorder: another piece of the neurological puzzle?Nicole Papadopoulos
Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Autism 16:627-40. 2012..These findings have implications for the potential use of adjunct motor measures in the diagnosis and definition of autism spectrum disorders... - Effects on parental mental health of an education and skills training program for parents of young children with autism: a randomized controlled trialBruce Tonge
Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 45:561-9. 2006....