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Overview

Eric Duku is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their work predominantly spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a strong focus on clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. They have contributed extensively to research on autism spectrum disorder and child developmental issues.

Their research covers several main topics: autism spectrum disorder research, family and disability support research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child nutrition and feeding issues, infant development and preterm care, child development and digital technology, and early childhood education and development.

Eric Duku's frequent co-authors include Stelios Georgiades, Péter Szatmári, Teresa Bennett, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, and Magdalena Janus. Their collaboration has resulted in numerous publications across multiple journals.

They have published many articles in prominent venues such as:

  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (13 publications)
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (6 publications)
  • Autism (6 publications)
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (6 publications)
  • International Journal for Population Data Science (6 publications)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Eric Duku include:

  • Co-occurring trajectories of anxiety and insistence on sameness behaviour in autism spectrum disorder, 2020, The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Inattention and hyperactive/impulsive component scores do not differentiate between autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in a clinical sample, 2020, Molecular Autism
  • Trajectories of Symptom Severity in Children with Autism: Variability and Turning Points through the Transition to School, 2021, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Effects of household chaos and parental responsiveness on child executive functions: a novel, multi-method approach, 2021, BMC Psychology
  • Predictors of language regression and its association with subsequent communication development in children with autism, 2022, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Childhood abuse and lifetime psychopathology in a community sample.

    Harriet L. MacMillan;Jan E. Fleming;David L. Streiner;Elizabeth Lin

  • The school entry gap: Socioeconomic, family, and health factors associated with children's school readiness to learn.

    Magdalena Janus;Eric Duku

  • Predictors of outcome among high functioning children with autism and Asperger syndrome.

    P. Szatmari;S.E. Bryson;M.H. Boyle;D.L. Streiner

  • Longitudinal links between childhood peer victimization, internalizing and externalizing problems, and academic functioning: Developmental cascades

    Tracy Vaillancourt;Heather L. Brittain;Patricia McDougall;Eric Duku;Eric Duku

  • Cortisol response to stress in female youths exposed to childhood maltreatment: results of the youth mood project.

    Harriet L. MacMillan;Katholiki Georgiades;Eric K. Duku;Alison Shea

  • Developmental Trajectories of Symptom Severity and Adaptive Functioning in an Inception Cohort of Preschool Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Peter Szatmari;Stelios Georgiades;Eric Duku;Teresa A. Bennett

  • A Comparison of Active and Simulated Chiropractic Manipulation as Adjunctive Treatment for Childhood Asthma

    J Balon;P D Aker;E R Crowther;C Danielson

  • Investigating Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Factor Mixture Modeling Approach.

    Stelios Georgiades;Peter Szatmari;Michael Boyle;Steven Hanna

  • Examination of bidirectional relationships between parent stress and two types of problem behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder.

    Anat Zaidman-Zait;Anat Zaidman-Zait;Pat Mirenda;Eric Duku;Peter Szatmari;Peter Szatmari

  • Child physical and sexual abuse in a community sample of young adults: Results from the Ontario Child Health Study

    Harriet L. MacMillan;Masako Tanaka;Eric Duku;Tracy Vaillancourt;Tracy Vaillancourt

  • Impact of personal and social resources on parenting stress in mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder

    Anat Zaidman-Zait;Pat Mirenda;Eric Duku;Tracy Vaillancourt

  • Sex differences in repetitive stereotyped behaviors in autism: Implications for genetic liability

    Peter Szatmari;Xiao‐Qing Liu;Jeremy Goldberg;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum

  • Comparing early language development in monolingual- and bilingual- exposed young children with autism spectrum disorders

    J. Kaori Ohashi;Pat Mirenda;Stefka Marinova-Todd;Catherine Hambly

  • Validating the Repetitive Behavior Scale-Revised in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Pat Mirenda;Isabel M. Smith;Tracy Vaillancourt;Stelios Georgiades

  • Optimizing Population Screening of Bullying in School-Aged Children.

    Tracy Vaillancourt;Vi Trinh;Patricia McDougall;Eric Duku

  • Contextual influences on children's mental health and school performance: the moderating effects of family immigrant status.

    Katholiki Georgiades;Michael H. Boyle;Eric Duku

  • Slapping and spanking in childhood and its association with lifetime prevalence of psychiatric disorders in a general population sample

    Harriet L. MacMillan;Michael H. Boyle;Maria Y.-Y. Wong;Eric K. Duku

  • The effects of long-term heparin therapy during pregnancy on bone density. A prospective matched cohort study.

    James D Douketis;Jeffrey S Ginsberg;Robert F Burrows;Eric K Duku

  • Variation in hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis activity among bullied and non‐bullied children

    Tracy Vaillancourt;Eric Duku;Denys Decatanzaro;Harriet L. MacMillan

  • Differentiating autism and Asperger syndrome on the basis of language delay or impairment.

    Terry Bennett;Peter Szatmari;Susan Bryson;Joanne Volden

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Szatmari
Peter Szatmari University of Toronto
Tracy Vaillancourt
Tracy Vaillancourt University of Ottawa
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum
Lonnie Zwaigenbaum University of Alberta
Isabel M. Smith
Isabel M. Smith Dalhousie University
Pat Mirenda
Pat Mirenda University of British Columbia
Joanne Volden
Joanne Volden University of Alberta
Charlotte Waddell
Charlotte Waddell Simon Fraser University
Susan E. Bryson
Susan E. Bryson Dalhousie University
Mayada Elsabbagh
Mayada Elsabbagh McGill University
Eric Fombonne
Eric Fombonne Oregon Health & Science University

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