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Has the definition of autism become too broad to be useful?

The definition of autism may have become so broad that it risks confusion and even misdiagnosis, according to a new editorial by UCL prof…

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The definition of autism may have become so broad that it risks confusion and even misdiagnosis, according to a new editorial by UCL professor Dame Uta Frith, whose pioneering research in the 1960s and '70s laid the foundations for how we understand autism.

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