David Ledbetter

Chief clinical officer
Dascena

David Ledbetter is chief clinical officer of Dascena, a personalized medicine company.

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There are no autism-specific genes, just brain genes

By David Ledbetter, Scott Myers
23 March 2021 | 5 min read
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Developmental disorders should be viewed as continuum

By David Ledbetter
6 May 2013 | 3 min read

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If our field is serious about building general principles of brain function, cross-species dialogue must become a core organizing principle rather than an afterthought.

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