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Georgia Coverdale is a PhD Candidate at CliniKids
Lacey Chetcuti is a Senior Research Fellow at CliniKids.
Rhylee Sulek is a Senior Research Fellow at CliniKids
Kandice Varcin is a Senior Research Fellow at CliniKids
Jess Reynolds is the Program Manager at CliniKids
Maretta Mann is the Research Development Manager at CliniKids
Six scientists from The Kids Research Institute Australia have been named finalists across four categories in the 2026 Premier's Science Awards.
Cognitive and motor dysfunction are hallmark features of the psychosis continuum, and have been detected during late childhood and adolescence in youth who report psychotic experiences (PE). However, previous investigations have not explored infancy and early childhood development.
Recent studies report conflicting results regarding the relationship between labour epidural analgesia (LEA) in mothers and neurodevelopmental disorders in their offspring. We evaluated behavioural and neuropsychological test scores in children of mothers who used LEA.
Individuals exhibiting pronounced autistic traits (e.g., social differences and specialised interests) may struggle with cognitive empathy (i.e., the ability to infer others' emotions), although the relationship with affective empathy (i.e., the ability to share others' emotions) is less clear in that higher levels of autistic traits may be linked with increased affective empathy for negative emotions but reduced affective empathy for positive emotions. The current study investigates this empathy profile and whether alexithymia and emotion dysregulation help to explain it.