John Rubenstein is Nina Ireland distinguished professor in child psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, Weill Institute for Neurosciences.
John Rubenstein
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University of California, San Francisco
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Understanding contradictory connectivity reports in autism
Studies at the level of neural circuits are needed to better understand the importance of both increased and decreased connectivity between different regions in the autism brain, say John Rubenstein and Vikaas Sohal.
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