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