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The Challenging Heterogeneity of Autism: Editorial for Brain Sciences Special Issue "Advances in Autism Research"
1Department of Child Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, 56018 Pisa, Italy.
Brain Sciences
|December 10, 2020
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My personal experience as Guest Editor of the Special Issue (SI) entitled "Advances in Autism Research" began with a nice correspondence with Andrew Meltzoff, from the University of Washington, Seattle (WA, USA), which, in hindsight, I consider as a good omen for the success of this Special Issue: "Dear Antonio… [...].
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