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Overview

Andrew Pickles is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. These fields encompass a wide range of subfields including clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, public health, environmental and occupational health, and education.

Their academic work covers several key topics within the broader scope of health and developmental sciences. These include autism spectrum disorder research, family and disability support research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child nutrition and feeding issues, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, child development and digital technology, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Andrew Pickles has contributed to numerous publications, including significant papers such as:

  • Autism spectrum disorder, 2020, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers are not associated with severe COVID-19 infection in a multi-site UK acute hospital trust, 2020, European Journal of Heart Failure
  • Academia Europaea Position Paper on Translational Medicine: The Cycle Model for Translating Scientific Results into Community Benefits, 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Evaluation and improvement of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) for COVID-19: a multi-hospital study, 2021, BMC Medicine
  • Work, living, and the pursuit of happiness: Vocational and psychosocial outcomes for young adults with autism, 2020, Autism

Their frequent coauthors include Tony Charman, Emily Simonoff, Nicola Wright, Virginia Carter Leno, and Helen M. Sharp. The collaborative efforts with these researchers align with shared interests in developmental disorders and clinical psychology.

Andrew Pickles has also published extensively in selected journals, with notable frequent venues including the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Autism Research, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Autism, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • The autism diagnostic observation schedule-generic: a standard measure of social and communication deficits associated with the spectrum of autism.

    Catherine Lord;Susan Risi;Linda Lambrecht;Edwin H. Cook

  • Psychiatric disorders in children with autism spectrum disorders: Prevalence, comorbidity, and associated factors in a population-derived sample

    Emily Simonoff;Andrew Pickles;Tony Charman;Susie Chandler

  • Prevalence of disorders of the autism spectrum in a population cohort of children in South Thames: the Special Needs and Autism Project (SNAP).

    Gillian Baird;Emily Simonoff;Andrew Pickles;Susie Chandler

  • Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Alistair T. Pagnamenta;Lambertus Klei;Richard Anney

  • Autism screening questionnaire: Diagnostic validity

    Sibel Kazak Berument;Michael Rutter;Catherine Lord;Andrew Pickles

  • Standardizing ADOS Scores for a Measure of Severity in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Katherine Gotham;Andrew Pickles;Catherine Lord

  • Development of a short questionnaire for use in epidemiological studies of depression in children and adolescents.

    Adrian Angold;Elizabeth J. Costello;Stephen C. Messer;Andrew Pickles

  • Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

    Peter Szatmari;Andrew D. Paterson;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Wendy Roberts

  • Autism spectrum disorder

    Catherine Lord;Traolach S Brugha;Tony Charman;James Cusack

  • A case-control family history study of autism

    P. Bolton;H. Macdonald;A. Pickles;P. Rios

  • Autism from 2 to 9 years of age.

    Catherine Lord;Susan Risi;Pamela S. DiLavore;Cory Shulman

  • The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule: Revised Algorithms for Improved Diagnostic Validity

    Katherine Gotham;Susan Risi;Andrew Pickles;Catherine Lord

  • Adult outcomes of childhood and adolescent depression. I. Psychiatric status

    Richard Harrington;Hazel Fudge;Michael Rutter;Andrew Pickles

  • The Impact of Nonverbal Ability on Prevalence and Clinical Presentation of Language Disorder: Evidence from a Population Study.

    Courtenay Frazier Norbury;Courtenay Frazier Norbury;Debbie Gooch;Debbie Gooch;Charlotte Wray;Gillian Baird

  • Resilience to adult psychopathology following childhood maltreatment: Evidence from a community sample

    Stephan Collishaw;Andrew Pickles;Julie Messer;Michael Rutter

  • Time trends in adolescent mental health.

    Stephan Collishaw;Barbara Maughan;Robert Goodman;Andrew Pickles

  • Parent-mediated communication-focused treatment in children with autism (PACT): A randomised controlled trial.

    Jonathan Green;Jonathan Green;Tony Charman;Helen McConachie;Catherine Aldred

  • Generalized multilevel structural equation modeling

    Sophia Rabe-Hesketh;Anders Skrondal;Andrew Pickles

  • Impairment in movement skills of children with autistic spectrum disorders.

    Dido Green;Tony Charman;Andrew Pickles;Susie Chandler

  • Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic

    G. Davies;A. Tenesa;A. Tenesa;A. Payton;J. Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Tony Charman
Tony Charman King's College London
Emily Simonoff
Emily Simonoff King's College London
Michael Rutter
Michael Rutter King's College London
Gillian Baird
Gillian Baird Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord University of California, Los Angeles
Jonathan Hill
Jonathan Hill University of Reading
Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green University of Manchester
Susie Chandler
Susie Chandler King's College London
Barbara Maughan
Barbara Maughan King's College London
Patrick Bolton
Patrick Bolton King's College London

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