Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 3 , Pages 208-209 , March 2010

Autism Research Comes of (a Young) Age

  • Tony Charman, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr. Charman, Institute of Education, University of London, 25 Woburn Square, London, WC1H0AA UK

,Accepted 9 December 2009.

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 Disclosure: Dr. Charman reports no biomedical financial interests or potential conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(09)00050-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2009.12.004

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 49, Issue 3 , Pages 208-209 , March 2010

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