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Tony Charman

Tony Charman

Psychologist

Sep 7, 2026

12:43
And Dr. Charman published a paper that showed that maybe even if it's not autism, there's a number of different outcomes that that parents should look out for but you don't just do this for autism right you're also looking at infants who are likely to develop an adhd diagnosis can you explain why it's important to not just focus on autism but focus on neurodevelopmental disorders or conditions more broadly
13:11
Yeah, I think, let me start off with sort of that.
13:14
I mean, that's been sort of something that, you know, that we've been interested in terms of our, as we now call them, our family history sort of studies, because we study infants who have older siblings, but also in our family history design, sometimes the parents themselves may have autism or indeed AD.
13:30
We also, we may not get onto that in this session, sort of today, we also study infants who have a genetic condition, neurofibromatosis, one, but also tuberous sclerosis.
13:48
And I think that comes from two places, really.
13:51
I mean, the first is from what we know about autism and the co-occurrence of other neurodevelopmental and indeed in older children and adults' mental health conditions.
14:01
So So for autism, and in fact this is true for most neurodevelopmental or neuropsychiatric conditions, having one diagnosis in isolation is the exception.

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24:49
I don't know, Tony, can

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