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Gillian Baird is affiliated with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines including psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, developmental and educational psychology, and genetics.

Their work centers largely on Autism Spectrum Disorder Research. Additional topics include family and disability support research, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, child nutrition and feeding issues, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health and psychiatry, and schizophrenia research and treatment.

Frequently publishing, Gillian Baird contributes to various academic journals and venues such as:

  • Autism Research
  • UNC Libraries
  • Autism
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Baird include:

  • An organization- and category-level comparison of diagnostic requirements for mental disorders in ICD-11 and DSM-5 (2021, World Psychiatry)
  • Trajectories of emotional and behavioral problems from childhood to early adult life (2020, Autism)
  • Is cognitive inflexibility a missing link? The role of cognitive inflexibility, alexithymia and intolerance of uncertainty in externalising and internalising behaviours in young people with autism spectrum disorder (2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)
  • Psychiatric conditions in autistic adolescents: longitudinal stability from childhood and associated risk factors (2022, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
  • Exploring the impact of adolescent cognitive inflexibility on emotional and behavioural problems experienced by autistic adults (2021, Autism)

Gillian Baird frequently collaborates with several researchers, among which are:

  • Tony Charman
  • Emily Simonoff
  • Andrew Pickles
  • Matthew J. Hollocks
  • Susie Chandler

Their scholarly contributions emphasize cognitive and clinical aspects of autism and related developmental disorders, engaging in longitudinal studies and investigations into emotional, behavioral, and psychiatric dimensions in young and adult populations with neurodevelopmental conditions.

Best Publications

  • 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 spectrum disorder.

    Catherine Lord;Mayada Elsabbagh;Gillian Baird;Jeremy Veenstra-Vanderweele

  • Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

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

  • A Screening Instrument for Autism at 18 Months of Age: A 6-Year Follow-up Study

    Gillian Baird;Tony Charman;Simon Baron-Cohen;Antony Cox

  • Infants with autism: an investigation of empathy, pretend play, joint attention, and imitation.

    Tony Charman;John Swettenham;Simon Baron-Cohen;Antony Cox

  • Convergence of Genes and Cellular Pathways Dysregulated in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Elsa Delaby;Elsa Delaby;Elsa Delaby;Daniele Merico;Mafalda Barbosa

  • 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

  • Psychological markers in the detection of autism in infancy in a large population

    S. Baron-Cohen;A. Cox;G. Baird;J. Swettenham

  • Testing joint attention, imitation, and play as infancy precursors to language and theory of mind

    Tony Charman;Simon Baron-Cohen;John Swettenham;Gillian Baird

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

    Dido Green;Tony Charman;Andrew Pickles;Susie Chandler

  • IQ in children with autism spectrum disorders: data from the Special Needs and Autism Project (SNAP)

    Tony Charman;A Pickles;Emily Simonoff;Susie Chandler

  • A genome-wide linkage and association scan reveals novel loci for autism

    Lauren A. Weiss;Lauren A. Weiss;Dan E. Arking;Mark J. Daly;Mark J. Daly;Aravinda Chakravarti

  • A full genome screen for autism with evidence for linkage to a region on chromosome 7q International Molecular Genetic Study of Autism Consortium

    Anthony Bailey;Amaia Hervas;Nicola Matthews;Sarah Palferman

  • Meta-analysis of GWAS of over 16,000 individuals with autism spectrum disorder highlights a novel locus at 10q24.32 and a significant overlap with schizophrenia

    Richard J.L. Anney;Richard J.L. Anney;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Verneri Anttila;Jakob Grove;Jakob Grove

  • A genome-wide scan for common alleles affecting risk for autism

    Richard Anney;Lambertus Klei;Dalila Pinto;Regina Regan

  • Practitioner review: Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in 2- and 3-year-old children.

    Tony Charman;Gillian Baird

  • Predicting language outcome in infants with autism and pervasive developmental disorder

    Tony Charman;Simon Baron-Cohen;John Swettenham;Gillian Baird

  • Convergence of genes and cellular pathways dysregulated in autism spectrum disorders

    Dalila Pinto;Elsa Delaby;Daniele Merico;Mafalda Barbosa

Frequent Co-Authors

Tony Charman
Tony Charman King's College London
Emily Simonoff
Emily Simonoff King's College London
Andrew Pickles
Andrew Pickles King's College London
Susie Chandler
Susie Chandler King's College London
Patrick Bolton
Patrick Bolton King's College London
Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green University of Manchester
Helen McConachie
Helen McConachie Newcastle University
Jeremy R. Parr
Jeremy R. Parr Newcastle University
Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
Anthony P. Monaco
Anthony P. Monaco Tufts University

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