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Dr Jessie Jacobson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
74 total appearances

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No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

There's likely going to be some environmental overplay over all of this.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

And you can't always, you know, correlate this change in a gene to this particular presentation.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

Which is annoying, isn't it?

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

It is, but it's what makes it interesting.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

That's why we're still here, you know.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

Yeah, I do.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

I do.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

And actually, I can kind of answer that because we published a paper last year, actually, that Ruth was a co-author on.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

When we first...

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

launched our research, we were basically inundated with people in the space of a week of wanting to be involved.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

It was somewhat overwhelming at the time.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

I was the one like emailing all these individuals.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

I was sort of somewhat flawed at the interest.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

And as part of that, we had a really diverse range of people who were wanting to be part of the research.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

Most of who we have in our research now are those that have been seen through the clinical space, through paediatricians or paediatric neurologists who would like

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

some extra support with trying to diagnose.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

But at the start, we kind of included everyone who wanted a diagnosis.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

So that research we published last year, which was essentially what we'd done in the space for the past 10 years, included a really diverse group of people that probably very few studies have really done around the world.

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

Most of them are very specific that they're going to include these individuals that have this co-occurring condition or

No Such Thing as Normal
33. What can science tell us about neurodivergent brains?

And they're very precise.