{"id":4388,"date":"2013-06-12T11:19:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T11:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/?p=479"},"modified":"2013-06-12T11:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T11:19:14","slug":"common-and-distinct-cognitive-correlates-of-co-occurring-psychiatric-and-sensory-processing-difficulties-in-autism-a-developmental-study-of-high-risk-siblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2013\/06\/12\/common-and-distinct-cognitive-correlates-of-co-occurring-psychiatric-and-sensory-processing-difficulties-in-autism-a-developmental-study-of-high-risk-siblings\/","title":{"rendered":"Common and distinct cognitive correlates of co-occurring psychiatric and sensory processing difficulties in autism: A developmental study of high risk siblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An opportunity for\u00a0a student to work with\u00a0a post-doctoral research fellow and closely with the IoP supervisors and team from the BASIS UK Autism at-risk-sibling study, led by Prof Mark Johnson (Birkbeck College).\u00a0 See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basisnetwork.org\/\">http:\/\/www.basisnetwork.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Psychiatric and sensory processing difficulties commonly co-occur in individuals with autism but little is understood about their underlying shared aetiology, developmental course or neurocognitive underpinnings. This project will follow up at age 5 to 7 years a cohort of familial at-risk siblings previously seen at ages 6, 12, 24 and 36 months for a range of neurocognitive and behavioural assessments. Concurrent 5-7 years associations between cognitive processing and core and co-occurring behaviours will be investigated. The student will use the longitudinal nature of the study to test whether infant\/toddler cognitive measures predict the 5-7 year behavioural phenotype.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a reading of the literature and with input from the experienced supervisors, the student will develop a range of experimental neurocognitive measures assessing cognitive processes thought to be associated with core autism behaviours (e.g. theory of mind, face\/emotional processing, executive functions) and those associated with co-occurring psychiatric and sensory difficulties (e.g. fear processing, delay gratification, auditory\/touch discrimination). These will be a combination of toy-based and computerised (e.g. touch screen) tasks. Standard assessments of the core autistic and co-occurring behavioural phenotype will be undertaken (parental questionnaires, observational measures, interviews).<\/p>\n<p>Applicants should have (or be expected to obtain) a 2:1 or 1st class honours degree in a subject relevant to the proposed project. If applicants already possess (or expect to obtain) a research-based MSc degree, a merit or distinction level is required. Both the MRC and \u2018IoP Excellence\u2019 studentships cover course fees (Home\/EU rate) for the MSc and PhD; a stipend (approx. \u00a316,000 per year) and a contribution towards research costs, training and conference attendance.<\/p>\n<p>For full details: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/iop\/research\/pgr\/phdstudentships\/Psychiatric-and-sensory-processing-difficulties-in-autism.aspx\">http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/iop\/research\/pgr\/phdstudentships\/Psychiatric-and-sensory-processing-difficulties-in-autism.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Closing Date:\u00a0 30th June 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opportunity for\u00a0a student to work with\u00a0a post-doctoral research fellow and closely with the IoP supervisors and team from the BASIS UK Autism at-risk-sibling study, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2013\/06\/12\/common-and-distinct-cognitive-correlates-of-co-occurring-psychiatric-and-sensory-processing-difficulties-in-autism-a-developmental-study-of-high-risk-siblings\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43796,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}