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| David M WilliamsSummaryAffiliation: University College London Country: UK Publications
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Intact inner speech use in autism spectrum disorder: evidence from a short-term memory taskDavid Williams
Institute of Psychiatry, King s College London, UK
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:51-8. 2008..This study explored the extent to which children with ASD used inner speech or visual imagery to support recall from short-term memory...- What did I say? Versus what did I think? Attributing false beliefs to self amongst children with and without autismDavid M Williams
Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK
J Autism Dev Disord 39:865-73. 2009..Individuals with autism may have greater difficulty representing their own beliefs than the beliefs of other people... - Language in autism and specific language impairment: where are the links?David Williams
Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Psychol Bull 134:944-63. 2008..They recommend that researchers concentrate on those aspects of language impairment that predominate in each disorder rather than on those comparatively small areas of potential overlap... - Pre-conceptual aspects of self-awareness in autism spectrum disorder: the case of action-monitoringDavid Williams
Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London, SE 5 8AF, UK
J Autism Dev Disord 39:251-9. 2009..Both tasks appear to be reliable markers of underlying action monitoring ability, performance on the 'Self' conditions of each task being significantly associated, independent of verbal ability... - Brief report: Predicting inner speech use amongst children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): the roles of verbal ability and cognitive profileDavid M Williams
Department of Language and Communication Science, City University, London, UK
J Autism Dev Disord 40:907-13. 2010..This revealed verbal ability predicted inner speech use on a short-term memory task over and above Cognitive Profile, but not vice versa. This suggests multiple factors determine whether children with ASD employ verbal mediation... 
Pallidal activity recorded in patients with implanted electrodes predictively correlates with eventual performance in a timing taskPeter Brown
Sobell Department of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
Neurosci Lett 330:188-92. 2002..We conclude that the human pallidum may be involved in the prediction of movement timings and that such internal estimates may be reflected in amplitude modulation of oscillatory activity around 25 Hz...- The Aberfan disaster: 33-year follow-up of survivorsLouise Morgan
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK
Br J Psychiatry 182:532-6. 2003..Children can develop PTSD; however, there is controversy over whether PTSD symptoms decrease or persist over time... - Behavioural cues are associated with modulations of synchronous oscillations in the human subthalamic nucleusDavid Williams
Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WCIN 3BG, UK
Brain 126:1975-85. 2003.... - Event-related beta desynchronization in human subthalamic nucleus correlates with motor performanceAndrea A Kuhn
Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WCIN 3BG, UK
Brain 127:735-46. 2004.... - HIV prevalence in pregnant women in an ethnically diverse population in the UK: 1998-2002Mario Cortina-Borja
Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK
AIDS 18:535-40. 2004..To describe trends in the prevalence of HIV in an ethnically diverse population of pregnant women in the United Kingdom... - Basal ganglia local field potential activity: character and functional significance in the humanPeter Brown
Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Clin Neurophysiol 116:2510-9. 2005..The available evidence points to the 8-30 Hz activity being essentially antikinetic in character and inversely related to motor processing. Its exaggeration may therefore contribute to the bradykinesia of Parkinson's disease... - Temporal cognition in children with autistic spectrum disorders: tests of diachronic thinkingJill Boucher
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
J Autism Dev Disord 37:1413-29. 2007..Possible causes of impaired diachronic thinking in autism are discussed... - Diversity in the veterinary professionDavid Williams
Vet Rec 159:606-7. 2006 - Quantum dots in medical technologyDavid Williams
Clinical Engineering Department, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, UK
Med Device Technol 17:8-9. 2006..During the past few years, the rapidly emerging technology of quantum dots has started to have an impact on the techniques of molecular and cellular imaging in medicine. Their advantages are examined here... 
Cross-national prevalence and risk factors for suicidal ideation, plans and attemptsMatthew K Nock
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Br J Psychiatry 192:98-105. 2008..Suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide; however, the prevalence and risk factors for the immediate precursors to suicide - suicidal ideation, plans and attempts - are not wellknown, especially in low- and middle-income countries...- Mental disorders among persons with heart disease - results from World Mental Health surveysJohan Ormel
Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 29:325-34. 2007..Consistency across emotional disorders and cultures would suggest that relatively universal mechanisms underlie the association... - Patient safety: helping medical students understand error in healthcareRona Patey
Department of Anaesthesia, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 16:256-9. 2007..A literature review did not reveal any patient safety courses in the core undergraduate medical curriculum. Therefore a new module was designed and piloted... - EditorialAndres Garcia
Biomaterials 28:5007-8. 2007 - The impact of chronically diseased coronary arteries and stenting on the corrected TIMI frame count in elective coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention proceduresKunadian Vijayalakshmi
Department of Cardiology, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 70:691-700. 2007..We prospectively and quantitatively determined the impact of stenting on the cTFC during elective PCI... - A reaction-time study of social, health, and personal attributions in relation to fluorosed teethPaul Bennett
Centre for Nursing, Health and Social Care Research, University of Cardiff, Wales
Psychol Health Med 13:75-86. 2008..These data are consistent with the view that people use negative, easily accessible, stereotypes of individuals presenting with health problems... - Effect of the UK incentive-based contract on the management of patients with stroke in primary careColin R Simpson
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, UK
Stroke 37:2354-60. 2006.... - Overview and research agenda arising from the 5th World Workshop on Oral Health and Disease in AIDSStephen Challacombe
Adv Dent Res 19:5-9. 2006 - Applications to study veterinary medicineDavid Williams
Vet Rec 158:312. 2006 - Catheters, materials and infectionDavid Williams
Department of Clinical Engineering, University of Liverpool
Med Device Technol 13:8-11. 2002..Some of the factors that control the occurrence of infection are considered in this article... - Dopamine-dependent changes in the functional connectivity between basal ganglia and cerebral cortex in humansDavid Williams
Sobell Department of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Brain 125:1558-69. 2002.... - Reassessing bioactive surfacesDavid Williams
Department of Clinical Engineering, University of Liverpool
Med Device Technol 13:8-9. 2002 - Public confidence in medical technologyDavid Williams
Department of Clinical Engineering, University of Liverpool
Med Device Technol 13:11-3. 2002..Once again, at the year's end, it is necessary to reassess our own procedures and safeguards to prevent erosion of public confidence in our industry... - Ethics of research on survivors of traumaSoraya Seedat
Medical Research Council Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Stellenbosch, PO Box 19063, Tygerberg, Cape Town 7505, South Africa
Curr Psychiatry Rep 6:262-7. 2004.... - The relationship between oscillatory activity and motor reaction time in the parkinsonian subthalamic nucleusDavid Williams
Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
Eur J Neurosci 21:249-58. 2005..The results are consistent with the hypothesis that reductions in 8-30 Hz population synchrony in the STN area are related to the processing required for motor preparation, particularly response selection... - Mechanical signalling: lessons from the past that control the futureDavid Williams
Clinical Engineering Department, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, UK
Med Device Technol 16:9-10. 2005..As with other components of the biocompatibility of devices, it is essential to control the mechanical signalling associated with this movement if we are to optimise this response... - Different functional loops between cerebral cortex and the subthalmic area in Parkinson's diseaseNoa Fogelson
Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, London, UK
Cereb Cortex 16:64-75. 2006..Tuning to distinct frequencies may provide a means of marking and segregating related processing, over and above any anatomical segregation of processing streams... - Quantitative assessment of ventricular function in sickle cell disease: effect of long-term erythrocytapheresisAshok B Raj
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA
Pediatr Blood Cancer 45:976-81. 2005..LVMPI has been validated as a useful and easy non-invasive measure of overall cardiac function. Up to now, there are no reported studies on cardiac function in patients with SCD maintained on long-term erythrocytapheresis (LTE)... - Specifying race-ethnic differences in risk for psychiatric disorder in a USA national sampleJoshua Breslau
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychol Med 36:57-68. 2006..Specification of race-ethnic differences with respect to clinical and social characteristics can help identify the protective factors that lead to lower lifetime risk among disadvantaged minority groups... - The proving of polyhydroxybutyrate and its potential in medical technologyDavid Williams
Clinical Engineering Department, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK
Med Device Technol 16:9-10. 2005..Polyhydroxybutyrate has been around for a couple of decades within the medical technology industry, but without making a significant impact. That may be about to change... - Significant clinical impact and prognostic stratification provided by FDG-PET in the staging of oesophageal cancerCuong P Duong
Division of Surgical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 33:759-69. 2006..CONCLUSION: The use of FDG-PET for primary staging of oesophageal cancer changed the clinical management of more than one-third of patients and provided superior prognostic stratification compared with conventional investigations... - A comparative study of two types of urinary sheathPamela Pemberton
Nurs Times 102:36-41. 2006..CONCLUSION: The new Conveen Optima urinary sheath was found to perform better than the well-established Clear Advantage sheath. Declaration of interest This study was funded by Coloplast A/S... - The enabling technological advantages of chitinDavid Williams
Department of Clinical Engineering, University of Liverpool
Med Device Technol 13:8-12. 2002..This article explains the basis for this claim and describes the nature and properties of these materials...