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Clare Harrop, Dara Chan, and Laura Klinger Awarded Grant to Study Social Connections and Suicidal Thoughts in Older Autistic Adults
February 7, 2024 Clare Harrop, PhD, Dara Chan, ScD, CRC, and Laura Klinger, PhD, are recipients of a National Institute of Mental Health (R21) grant, allowing them to study the associations between social connections and suicidal thoughts and…
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December 13, 2023 Joseph Piven, MD, the Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, has served as founding editor-in-chief of Journal for Neurodevelopmental Disorders since 2009, when the journal began publishing as part of the…
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November 20, 2023 A new meta-analysis led by Micheal Sandbank, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the UNC School of Medicine, found that the field of autism needs more high-quality…
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