Daniel R. Weinberger

Professor
Johns Hopkins University

Director of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development and Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuroscience and The Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.

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By Daniel R. Weinberger, The Conversation

1 May 2019

6 min read

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Pitt-Hopkins syndrome may point the way to autism treatments

Researchers have identified a drug that works in individual cells and rodent models of a form of autism known as Pitt-Hopkins syndrome.

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Pitt-Hopkins syndrome may point the way to autism treatments

By Daniel R. Weinberger, The Conversation

1 May 2019 | 6 min read

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