Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 10-18 , January 2009

Autism Spectrum Disorders and Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia: Clinical and Biological Contributions to a Relation Revisited

,Accepted 25 July 2008.

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 Support for this work has come from the National Institute of Mental Health intramural program.

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doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e31818b1c63

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 1 , Pages 10-18 , January 2009

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