Lucia Peixoto is assistant professor of biomedical sciences at Washington State University Spokane.
Lucia Peixoto
Assistant professor of biomedical sciences
Washington State University Spokane
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Doctors and scientists should consider sleep problems an integral part of autism and begin to study them in more rigorous ways.
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