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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Deletion of a section of chromosome 22 can cause psychosis in one individual and autism in another, via independent biological pathways.
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