Carrie Bearden is professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Carrie Bearden
Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
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Same DNA deletion paves paths to autism, schizophrenia
Deletion of a section of chromosome 22 can cause psychosis in one individual and autism in another, via independent biological pathways.
Same DNA deletion paves paths to autism, schizophrenia
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Carrie Bearden
18 October 2016 | 5 min read
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Retinal waves offer a powerful example of a self-organizing system that can build structure without external guidance. The field would do well to embrace such phenomena more broadly as a type of mechanistic explanation.
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