Punit Shah

Associate professor
University of Bath

Punit Shah is associate professor of psychology at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom.

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Spectrum

By Laura Dattaro

22 June 2021

7 min read

Scientist with diagnostic tool, looking at many different choices, including the number 6.

How two graduate students uncovered a critical error in autism screening guidelines

Spectrum spoke to the researchers who uncovered an error in autism screening guidelines that have been in use for nearly a decade.

Spectrum

How two graduate students uncovered a critical error in autism screening guidelines

By Laura Dattaro

22 June 2021 | 7 min read

Spectrum

By Rachel Clutterbuck, Punit Shah, Lucy Waldren, The Conversation

24 March 2021

3 min read

Doctor or clinician makes notes about patient during diagnosis.

Error found in autism screening guidelines

The U.K. clinical guidelines used to screen for autism contain an error, which may have resulted in many delayed or missed diagnoses over the past decade.

Spectrum

Error found in autism screening guidelines

By Rachel Clutterbuck, Punit Shah, Lucy Waldren, The Conversation

24 March 2021 | 3 min read

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Illustration of pipa frog showing nerves in fingertips.

How the pipa frog hunts prey by touch

Each of the frog’s eight fingers branches into 16 ultra-sensitive tips, which together function as a fovea—potentially the first demonstration of this type of sensory structure outside of mammals.

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