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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Pitt-Hopkins syndrome may point the way to autism treatments

By Daniel R. Weinberger, The Conversation
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