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Peter H. Wilson is affiliated with the Australian Catholic University in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with notable contributions to Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Epidemiology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Wilson's work concentrates on several key topics including:

  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts

Among Wilson's recent papers are:

  • "Cognitive and motor function in developmental coordination disorder", 2020, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
  • "Home-based (virtual) rehabilitation improves motor and cognitive function for stroke patients: a randomized controlled trial of the Elements (EDNA-22) system", 2021, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Other significant papers co-authored by or associated with Wilson's research area include:

  • "Behavioral and Neuroimaging Research on Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD): A Combined Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Recent Findings", 2022, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Unsupervised assessment of cognition in the Healthy Brain Project: Implications for web-based registries of individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease", 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions
  • "Navigating the link between processing speed and network communication in the human brain", 2021, Brain Structure and Function

Wilson frequently publishes in several venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
  • Disability and Rehabilitation
  • Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Their collaborative network involves frequent co-authors such as Éric Csapo, Thomas B. McGuckian, Bert Steenbergen, Jonathan Duckworth, and Michael H. Cole.

Wilson also has contributions to book publications. Among these are:

  • "A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC", published by Cambridge University Press in 2020
  • "Iron and Blood", published by Harvard University Press in 2023

Best Publications

  • International clinical practice recommendations on the definition, diagnosis, assessment, intervention, and psychosocial aspects of developmental coordination disorder

    Rainer Blank;Anna L. Barnett;John Cairney;John Cairney;Dido Green

  • European Academy for Childhood Disability (EACD): recommendations on the definition, diagnosis and intervention of developmental coordination disorder (long version).

    Rainer Blank;Bouwien Smits-Engelsman;Helene Polatajko;Peter Henry Wilson

  • Participation, both a means and an end: a conceptual analysis of processes and outcomes in childhood disability

    Christine Imms;Christine Imms;Mats Granlund;Peter H Wilson;Bert Steenbergen;Bert Steenbergen

  • Information Processing Deficits Associated with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Meta-analysis of Research Findings

    Peter H. Wilson;Beryl E. McKenzie

  • Understanding performance deficits in developmental coordination disorder: a meta-analysis of recent research

    Peter H Wilson;Scott Ruddock;Bouwien Smits-Engelsman;Helene Polatajko

  • Percentile Norms and Accompanying Interval Estimates from an Australian General Adult Population Sample for Self-Report Mood Scales (BAI, BDI, CRSD, CES-D, DASS, DASS-21, STAI-X, STAI-Y, SRDS, and SRAS)

    John Crawford;Carol Cayley;Peter F Lovibond;Peter H Wilson

  • Efficacy of interventions to improve motor performance in children with developmental coordination disorder: a combined systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Bouwien C M Smits-Engelsman;Rainer Blank;Anne-Claire Van Der Kaay;Rianne Mosterd-Van Der Meijs

  • Comparison of cognitive-behavioral group treatment and an alternative non-psychological treatment for chronic low back pain.

    Michael K. Nicholas;Peter H. Wilson;Jocelyn Goyen

  • Practitioner Review: Approaches to assessment and treatment of children with DCD: an evaluative review

    Peter H. Wilson

  • Fine motor deficiencies in children with developmental coordination disorder and learning disabilities: an underlying open-loop control deficit.

    B.C.M. Smits-Engelsman;P.H. Wilson;Y. Westenberg;J.E.J. Duysens

  • The relationship between friendship factors and adolescent girls' body image concern, body dissatisfaction, and restrained eating

    Bibi Gerner;Peter H. Wilson

  • Compromised motor control in children with DCD: A deficit in the internal model: A systematic review

    Imke L.J. Adams;Jessica M. Lust;Peter H. Wilson;Bert Steenbergen

  • Cognitive and neuroimaging findings in developmental coordination disorder: new insights from a systematic review of recent research

    Peter Wilson;Bouwein C.M. Smits-Engelsman;Karen Caeyenberghs;Bert Steenbergen

  • What do randomized controlled trials say about virtual rehabilitation in stroke? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of upper-limb and cognitive outcomes

    Anna Aminov;Jeffrey M. Rogers;Sandy Middleton;Karen Caeyenberghs

  • Spatio‐visual memory of children with specific language impairment: evidence for generalized processing problems

    Edith Bavin;Peter Wilson;Paul Thomas Maruff;Felicity Sleeman

  • A prospective longitudinal study of sexual recidivism among adolescent sex offenders.

    Ian Nisbet;Peter H. Wilson;Stephen Walkley Smallbone

  • Information Processing Deficits Associated with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Meta-analysis of Research Findings

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  • The utility of somatic items in the assessment of depression in patients with chronic pain: a comparison of the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales in chronic pain and clinical and community samples.

    Renae Taylor;Peter F. Lovibond;Michael K. Nicholas;F. Carol Cayley

  • Evaluating the evidence for motor-based interventions in developmental coordination disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Bouwien Smits-Engelsman;Sabine Vinçon;Rainer Blank;Virgínia H. Quadrado

  • Internal representation of movement in children with developmental coordination disorder: a mental rotation task.

    PH Wilson;P Maruff;Michael Butson;Jacqueline Williams

  • Motor Imagery Training Ameliorates Motor Clumsiness in Children

    Peter H. Wilson;Patrick R. Thomas;Paul Maruff

  • Abnormalities of motor and praxis imagery in children with DCD

    Peter H. Wilson;Paul Maruff;Paul Maruff;Sarah Ives;Jon Currie

  • Role of visual–perceptual skills (non-motor) in children with developmental coordination disorder

    Chia-Liang Tsai;Peter H. Wilson;Sheng-Kuang Wu

  • Asymmetries between dominant and non-dominant hands in real and imagined motor task performance.

    P. Maruff;P.H. Wilson;J.De Fazio;B. Cerritelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Bert Steenbergen
Bert Steenbergen Radboud University
Paul Maruff
Paul Maruff University of Melbourne
Karen Caeyenberghs
Karen Caeyenberghs Deakin University
David Shum
David Shum Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jan P. Piek
Jan P. Piek Curtin University
Bouwien C. M. Smits-Engelsman
Bouwien C. M. Smits-Engelsman North-West University
Jon Currie
Jon Currie Mental Health Research Institute
David Sugden
David Sugden University of Leeds
Deborah J. Terry
Deborah J. Terry University of Queensland
Ottmar V. Lipp
Ottmar V. Lipp Curtin University

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