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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Combination of strategies may tame autism’s placebo problem

By Bryan King
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