Introduction: Autism - The challenges ahead

Novartis Foundation Symposium

Volumn 251, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-9

  Rutter, Michael ^a  

^a Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTISM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 1542576418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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