Play with online virtual pets as a method to improve mirror neuron and real world functioning in autistic children

Eric Lewin Altschuler1

  • 1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, University Hospital, Newark, NJ 07103, United . eric.altschuler@umdnj.edu

Medical Hypotheses
|September 11, 2007
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