Background Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a common developmental
disorder but its long term impact on health and education are poorly understood. Aim To …

Complex societies are suggested to generate complex communication. However, tests of
this hypothesis rarely go beyond a superficial examination of social and communicative …

Aim To assess the relationship between developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and
mental health outcomes in late adolescence. Method Data were analyzed from the Avon …

Many foraging animals face a fundamental tradeoff between predation and starvation [1, 2].
In a range of social species, this tradeoff has probably driven the evolution of sentinel …

Gambling is a common activity amongst young adults in the UK, and was a behavior of
interest during the early mitigation against COVID-19 (first lockdown). The Avon Longitudinal …

Given the strong selection on prey animals to escape predation, early development of
correct avoidance strategies should be favoured. We studied the development of responses …

A large contemporary UK cohort study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children,
was used to investigate gambling behavior and to explore the antecedents of regular …

A great deal of variation is known to underlie the vocalizations of animals. Calls can for
example vary between individuals or between social and behavioural contexts. Calls also …

Objective Childhood burns represent a burden on health services, yet the full extent of the
problem is difficult to quantify. We estimated the annual UK incidence from primary care …

Objective To investigate child developmental and behavioural characteristics and risk of
burns and scalds. Design Data on burns in children up to 11 years from 12 966 participants …