Jennifer Foss-Feig

Assistant professor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jennifer Foss-Feig is assistant professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and faculty member at the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment in New York.

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Spectrum

By Jennifer Foss-Feig, Eva Velthorst

28 May 2019

6 min read

Signs of psychosis in people with autism warrant serious concern

Many young autistic people with signs of emerging psychosis go without appropriate care.

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Signs of psychosis in people with autism warrant serious concern

By Jennifer Foss-Feig, Eva Velthorst

28 May 2019 | 6 min read

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