James Prudden is group editorial director of McMahon Group, a medical publishing company, and editorial director of Anesthesiology News.
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The same genetic factors may underlie both autism and autistic people's tendency to have sleep problems, such as insomnia.
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9 August 2021 | 4 min read
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