Bryan King

Vice chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, University of Washington

Bryan King is professor of psychiatry and vice chair of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Spectrum

By Bryan King

7 September 2015

5 min read

Combination of strategies may tame autism’s placebo problem

Clinical trials of autism treatments are fertile ground for the placebo effect. Bryan King explains how the field must move forward to better evaluate treatments.

Spectrum

Combination of strategies may tame autism’s placebo problem

By Bryan King

7 September 2015 | 5 min read

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