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Michael Rutter
Researcher at King's College London
Publications - 684
Citations - 158378
Michael Rutter is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Autism & Conduct disorder. The author has an hindex of 188, co-authored 676 publications receiving 151592 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Rutter include VCU Medical Center & Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and risk to boys' conduct disturbance: an examination of the causal hypothesis.
TL;DR: The results suggest that the association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and boys' Cd symptoms may be attributed to the transmission of a latent Cd factor and not to a direct effect of the smoking.
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Alcohol consumption during pregnancy and its effects on neurodevelopment: what is known and what remains uncertain
TL;DR: Suggestions are made for further research making more use of natural experiments to support claims that prenatal alcohol exposure represents an important risk factor for neurodevelopmental problems, giving rise to a large burden of disability which could be potentially preventable.
Deprivation-specific psychological patterns: Effects of institutional deprivation by the English and Romanian Adoptee Study Team
Michael Rutter,EJ Sonuga-Barke,Celia Beckett,C. A. Bell,Jenny Castle,Jana Kreppner,R Kumsta,W Schlotz,Suzanne Stevens +8 more
TL;DR: The English and Romania Adoptees (ERA) study as discussed by the authors found that the main outcomes that were strongly associated with institutional deprivation were unusual and distinctive: Namely, quasi-autism, disinhibited attachment, inattention/overactivity and cognitive impairment.
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Autism Research: Lessons from the Past and Prospects for the Future
TL;DR: The paper uses both the author’s experience of research training, and the empirical studies of autism in which he participated over the last 40-plus years, to derive research lessons and to consider the needs and prospects for future research.
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The Influence of Organic and Emotional Factors on the Origins, Nature and Outcome of Childhood Psychosis
TL;DR: I believe that child psychosis is not part of schizophrenia, it is a disorder which is usually associated with receptive and executive speech defects and the education received by the autistic child is a very important influence on outcome.