Kristen Bottema-Beutel is associate professor of special education at Boston College in Massachusetts.

Kristen Bottema-Beutel
Associate professor
Boston College
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Errors of omission: Why we are deeply concerned about research on autism therapies
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The earliest studies on necessary and sufficient neural populations were performed on simple invertebrate circuits. Does this logic still serve us as we tackle more sophisticated outputs?